But a lot of my pure CS peers really struggled because they didn't practice solving hundreds of much nastier problems by hand. I remember in a computer graphics exam they did force us to solve some matrix multiplication by hand, it was so absurdly trivial compared to the shit in EE exams that I almost laughed. They were much harder to bullshit through with 0 understanding, but if you did understand the material, were much easier. I had/have 0 understanding of those topics, I just pattern matched questions to equations and then solved them like I solved everything else.įor some reason, the CS exams never had this sort of 'difficulty'. There are entire subtopics of my degree that I had 0 interest in (high voltage, electromagnetism), skipped all the lectures and then still got an A. I only had to get good at solving equations quickly and then I could get an A in an exam after just looking at all the tutorials/lecture notes the day before the exam. In a way, that made it easier because everything was basically the same. And all the exam questions were close enough to stuff that was solved in lectures/tutorial. Pretty much every single exam question was look at problem, identify equations to use, solve them by hand. The difficulty in EE exams came from having to solve stupidly long and complex equations by hand in an exam with significant time pressure. Reading all the comments saying that it's super hard at university makes me feel like my university was really shit. > To those commenters who say that you need to be bright to be an EE, it is very flattering, but I am obviously not very bright :D (edit: formatting because, again, not very bright :) ) To those commenters who say that you need to be bright to be an EE, it is very flattering, but I am obviously not very bright :D Having the salaries of my SE and CS friends would be amazing. Why? because money.Īnd I don't want fast cars or huge houses or any of that absurdity (although A house would be nice). * I am now at a junction point in my career where I will either: Leave EE completely and work in something else (probably SE or IT), start my own EE business, consult in compliance of EE products (had one gig for a while and it paid well). * Know lots of SEs who moved from EE because money was better (chief complaint from them is that SE is easier but they don't care because job less stressful and again more money). So I should be getting paid better right? Have always been paid worse than my SE peers even though there's x5 - x10 as many of them.

* I have mainly worked in companies that make embedded devices, which is a market that is supposed to be exploding. * 10 years later my best conservative estimate (based on sampling from friends from my year) is that at least another quarter has left because money. * Half of my class of EEs and CEs went into other careers immediately after graduation because money was better. They cooked the books for personal profit.* Worked as EE/EEE entire career (currently almost 14 years). I get $4 per hour bonuses for bringing jobs under. I went to full duty on and still no raise. 2 months later when raises were given I was told I would get it when I get back to 'full duty'. Shortly after I injured my shoulder while working by myself from 8am to 9pm without help in order to complete a task. Also last June, 2019 I was told after a review I was getting a $2 per hr raise. they tell us they don't have a job to put it on. They also remove hours whenever they feel it doesn't apply without authorization from us. So now we are on duty loading material, off duty hauling it and on duty when at job site. A co-worker was told that drive time cuts our managers bonus. Recently my manager was promoted to regional staying in the same office and the new manager isnt doing very well so they deleted everyone's time spent loading materials and driving not paying us untill we arrived at our different job sites last week. Quotes are not paid drive time unless I'm transporting material, t&m are paid since they charge the customer for it. My employer has 2 types of work, 1 with quotes the other time and material.

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