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[Sugarphreak]

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[Homerrca]

43 and working as an onsite AV Support tech for a O&G here in town.

[nissanK]

Might as well jump on the bandwagon and share my experiences.

Current Position - Sales Engineer for an Audio Visual Integrator here in Calgary - 1.5yrs

Previous positions -
Meeting Room AV Tech Analyst for Large Oil and Gas company (same as below) - 3 yrs
Tier 2-3 Desktop support for Large Oil and Gas company downtown - 2.5 years

[lasimmon]

30 years old - Engineer/Project Manager at a small Private O&G consulting company. We started up about a year ago and have been successful since. Hopefully it continues.

[HiTempguy1]

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Unfortunately school is terrible... they are so out of touch with the real world it isn't even funny. They also make the easiest shit hard by time crunching everything or just plain grading it unfairly... it is awful. I'm doing ok grade wise, but I'm thinking about not continuing. I've never been so miserable...

I don't know what I'm going to do anymore... this is a pretty low point for me career wise

[whose line is it anyways]Welcome to engineering, where the academics are useless and the learned information doesn't matter in the real world![/whose line is it anyway] Hence why I dropped out after 1st year (and my grades weren't as good as yours by the sounds of it). It was torture. When I was younger, I got shit on a lot for not being an engineer. Looking back, I'm quite happy how things have turned out so far. I'm meeting all of my financial goals.

I don't know how many years you are into your program (I feel like you've said upgrading plus this is your 1st year). It doesn't get better, you just get used to it. So unless you really, REALLY want to be an engineer, you may want to look at a different career. My 2 cents.

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And while all of our engineers at work are great, 95%+ of the time they do ZERO work that couldn't be taught to someone who wasn't stupid off the street with a couple years of on the job training. Same goes for my job, I certainly didn't need a piece of paper to do what I do. System is fucked.

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29 - Business Development, Representative @ Midstream Company

[leftwing]

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Plumber/Gas-fitter trade, BSc. Construction Management and currently working on my MBA. Along with a bunch of other lame designations..

Post was a couple years old though, but might be getting back into waste water full time this spring..

Genuinely curious how you have the lifestyle you have with such a standard background and being a couple years older than 27. Feel free to ignore this post if it was inheritance or family money, or if you don't feel like sharing.

[msommers]

Would also be curious. Don't care if it's a flex. I wish I had an R8 at 27, instead I've got student loans in my 30's.

[max_boost]

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Can confirm... major life change does not equate to happiness, plus years are still flying by

Currently more miserable than I've ever been in my whole life thanks to going back to school.

I was pretty excited to for school, there is a lot of things I want to learn. Instead I am surveying in the fucking rain, or taking tests that are designed not to be finished within the given time on pointless stuff I learned a week before. I still have 12 tests this month left... FML.

No idea what I'm going to do anymore work wise... Vancouver fucking sucks for work.

dunno why you had do something so drastic when you can press a few buttons on a computer and make money

for sure i am stay here at my store forever. it's either this or retirement. the shock would be too great if i went back to school or worked for someone else lol

[03ozwhip]

I realize I've never posted in this thread. Did a career change back in 2013 to be a welder. I'm a red seal welder in the city(for now) doing my B pressure in June so I can possibly start up my welding rig again.

[Sugarphreak]

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[ThePenIsMightier]

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[whose line is it anyways]Welcome to engineering, where the academics are useless and the learned information doesn't matter in the real world![/whose line is it anyway] Hence why I dropped out after 1st year (and my grades weren't as good as yours by the sounds of it). It was torture. When I was younger, I got shit on a lot for not being an engineer. Looking back, I'm quite happy how things have turned out so far. I'm meeting all of my financial goals.

I don't know how many years you are into your program (I feel like you've said upgrading plus this is your 1st year). It doesn't get better, you just get used to it. So unless you really, REALLY want to be an engineer, you may want to look at a different career. My 2 cents.

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And while all of our engineers at work are great, 95%+ of the time they do ZERO work that couldn't be taught to someone who wasn't stupid off the street with a couple years of on the job training. Same goes for my job, I certainly didn't need a piece of paper to do what I do. System is fucked.

Ok, but the easiest way to find "someone off the street who isn't stupid" is to find a person with a degree in engineering BEFORE you start wasting your time training them for whatever job your colleagues are doing.
48 courses in 4 years, none of them are easy and a few of them are fuckin near impossible along with enough math/calculus/PDE's to choke a horse and you end up with a problem solving machine who can drink from a fire hose. (Maybe with Asperger's... But that's a hurdle that can be overcome).
Yes, there's always dumb assholes in every profession, but it's about maximizing your chances of obtaining an intelligent candidate capable of learning and solving.

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[Disoblige]

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Genuinely curious how you have the lifestyle you have with such a standard background and being a couple years older than 27. Feel free to ignore this post if it was inheritance or family money, or if you don't feel like sharing.

He has shared this info on here before.

[BavarianBeast]

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Genuinely curious how you have the lifestyle you have with such a standard background and being a couple years older than 27. Feel free to ignore this post if it was inheritance or family money, or if you don't feel like sharing.

I wouldn’t really call it a standard background. I genuinely don’t know many people who have a trade, degree and 10 years of valuable related work experience in their indusray at age 30 and I’ve found that’s what makes it easy for me to land more senior roles at companies that pay well.

On top of my day job I’ve made my money by taking a shit ton of risk with any money I made during the early stages of my career in both the stock market and business ventures that ended up turning in my favour. I like to take risks and I like to progress in my life and career, I dunno what else to say.

[Buster]

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I wouldn’t really call it a standard background. I genuinely don’t know many people who have a trade, degree and 10 years of valuable related work experience in their indusray at age 30 and I’ve found that’s what makes it easy for me to land more senior roles at companies that pay well.

On top of my day job I’ve made my money by taking a shit ton of risk with any money I made during the early stages of my career in both the stock market and business ventures that ended up turning in my favour. I like to take risks and I like to progress in my life and career, I dunno what else to say.

yup...life is fun when your lawyer starts calling you to come pick up dividend cheques,

[Sugarphreak]

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[Buster]

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I honestly can't think of what I want to do... which is weird for me because I've always sort of had my shit figured out up to now

In general I'm getting very apathetic and withdrawn as I get older, the entire world just seems pointless to participate in

fucking Vancouver man. That place makes people depressed.

[colinxx235]

Yah Sugar, I can't recall what major you're in for Engg. But I met lots of people who dropped out after 2nd and 3rd year. After 3rd year I thought that was a bit crazy considering you just had to make it through 4th and you at least had that piece of paper saying you did your degree. With so little courses transferring out of Engineering you don't get to save much time.

Mechanical for example had a brutal 3rd year. By far the most difficult courses of your program. You could see kids crack and a couple who were clinging on after 2nd year give up around Christmas time.

And yah, as Hitemp pointed out. It sucks that you probably use less than 5% of your degree at work for most engineers in OnG.


But as for your university stating more kids dropping out in the 1st year than they expected. I'm not surprised by that. Given the duration of this OnG slump in AB/Canada... hard to blame people from jumping off the sinking ship as one might say. If I didn't dislike school so much I would have went back 4-5 years ago when I first got laid off (and probably should have) to switch completely out. These days it is all about waiting for an idea to strike or maybe slowly develop a plan to start a business to move out of it. I just haven't worked up the gull to take that risk and leave or put all my assets into starting something.

[max_boost]

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I wouldn’t really call it a standard background. I genuinely don’t know many people who have a trade, degree and 10 years of valuable related work experience in their indusray at age 30 and I’ve found that’s what makes it easy for me to land more senior roles at companies that pay well.

On top of my day job I’ve made my money by taking a shit ton of risk with any money I made during the early stages of my career in both the stock market and business ventures that ended up turning in my favour. I like to take risks and I like to progress in my life and career, I dunno what else to say.

Good job man. Love seeing ppl do well killing it.

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I honestly can't think of what I want to do... which is weird for me because I've always sort of had my shit figured out up to now

In general I'm getting very apathetic and withdrawn as I get older, the entire world just seems pointless to participate in

Yup. Can relate 100