I'm looking to exploit my undergrad degree. I've got a Bach of Science in Mechanical Engineering, graduated honors and all that, and the EIT certification (passed the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam). I'm planning on taking the patent bar over the winter, which will give me the additional designation of "Patent Agent".
Been in Law School for a little over a year now. I've done well (perhaps even better than I anticipated in the first semester), but its not what I want to do. I'm realizing I want to do the actual engineering and creation of intellectual property more than I want to push papers for the guys who did the fun stuff.
If any one has contacts in the area in the engineering field, please PM me. I am very interested in things that move (obviously), like motos, cars, trucks, trains, planes, whirlybirds, earth movers, and heavy machinery. I've got lab experience from a consulting firm in Nashville, design experience in CAD doing piping runs, pressure calcs, and the like.
Let a brotha know. Excuse the lack of moto content in this post, I'll attach some machined parts pics to make up for it:
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4iYlZ1m8UEM/RakxwlEnC1I/AAAAAAAAADE/QVag4_RGiZk/s400/09.jpg)
Similar situation here (ME, Honors, EIT). Working at an engineering firm but want to change fields. Sorry to threadjack, maybe we can tag-team some sh*t. [thumbsup]
Sounds good to me. Here's to hoping the economy starts doing lots and lots and lots better quickly. [beer]
Are you interested in relocating? My sister runs HR for a small space development firm in Tucson. It is an awesome place to work. They are currently looking for quality engineer, materials and process engineer, thermal engineer, senior systems engineer and an environmental control and life support systems engineer (I have no idea what any of that means).
I got no pull with the hiring, but happy to put you in touch. PM me if interested.
So, what do we want to do... (EE, EIT, no honors but minors in Math, CompSci, and could have had physics but i didnt want to be held responible for the stuff I was suppose to learn).
20 years of experience (Damn, when did I get that old, really I graduated when I was 10 [cheeky]) mostly software and management experience...
I think we should all learn from the Sam Adams commercials and start a beer business.. they all look so happy.... [drink]
I too graduated with honors in BS (bullshit)!!!!!!! can I play too?
Quote from: muskrat on November 03, 2009, 01:14:04 PM
I too graduated with honors in BS (bullshit)!!!!!!! can I play too?
No, because you will sell stuff that doesn't exist yet, and not even in our market... [bang]
If and when the economy recovers, we should start up a Harley dealership and not involve Dax.
Some may call me older... I prefer wiser.... (ok, not wise enough)
Stay in school... finish... it is only another year? year & a half?
Chump change in comparison to the DECADES that you are going to be working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hate to break this to you but...
- Jobs are tight out there... getting better but the business are offering low $ trying to find some bargins... You will have to find another job when the economy turns around because you will never make up the pay difference by hard work when you started low
- Dollars spent are dollars spent. The ROI on the dollars already spent are ZERO. You will be just walking away from that investment. But then most of us working folks have walked away from that from our investments during that same time too
- 5 years down the road, when you regret this, it will be WAY harder to go back. You will have car payments, house payments, bike payments, bambino payments... You are so close now... keep the faith...
I think you had a good plan, I would say stay the course... the years of work ahead of you are many...
Quote from: UnionJill on November 03, 2009, 01:20:42 PM
No, because you will sell stuff that doesn't exist yet, and not even in our market... [bang]
my job is sales, not my problem "product" doesn't have it together. get with it!
Yes, half way through - another 3 semesters. Just tough to sit down and do the math about paying back what loans I did have to take out for SMU (I received Dean's Scholarship, covers a lot), and the issues with the legal market: Recent graduates and future graduates are competing against the 'talent' that the big firms laid off when finances ran dry for very little legal work, and the average salary is dropping (starting salaries are looking like they'll be below what I could make as an engineer). YIKES. This is not what I bargained for when I undertook this 'adventure'.
But it did get me to DFW and a kickass local riding community.
So now, as I read briefs and do research for one of the Justices at the Court of Appeals, I find myself missing drafting, doing math, figuring out the pressure losses in piping, how far out the elephant could walk down a plank before breaking it, etc.
Quote from: alexisonfire on November 03, 2009, 02:08:43 PM
If and when the economy recovers, we should start up a Harley dealership and not involve Dax.
that's ok I'll have a bar and "adult" entertainment club next door to bleed your chrome sales dry, bone dry.
i would like to be involved in this multiple-store-front business endeavor.
Quote from: ato memphis on November 03, 2009, 04:14:51 PM
i would like to be involved in this multiple-store-front business endeavor.
you can recruit the talent. :P
i will go door-to-door if required. in the guise of a mormon (a la the movie Orgazmo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/) where he fell into a starring role in a pornographic movie, but regularly required a "stuntpart").
DISCLAIMER
*Not intended to offend any Mormons, friends or acquaintances of Mormons, or anybody who may in the future become a Mormon. Talking about door-to-door soliciting here, the adult entertainment industry, and a unique intersection of the two (three?) in the movie.
Quote from: ato memphis on November 03, 2009, 04:11:01 PM
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issues with the legal market: Recent graduates and future graduates are competing against the 'talent' that the big firms laid off when finances ran dry for very little legal work, and the average salary is dropping (starting salaries are looking like they'll be below what I could make as an engineer). YIKES. This is not what I bargained for when I undertook this 'adventure'.
Have you crossed checked the ME world lately? I would guess that the same has happened there too.
Quote from: ato memphis on November 03, 2009, 04:11:01 PM
So now, as I read briefs and do research for one of the Justices at the Court of Appeals, I find myself missing drafting, doing math, figuring out the pressure losses in piping, how far out the elephant could walk down a plank before breaking it, etc.
It is good to have a hobby [cheeky]
Quote from: UnionJill on November 03, 2009, 04:33:31 PM
It is good to have a hobby [cheeky]
Haha, indeed. This is why I'm going to learn a few new tricks this winter: Making carbon fiber pieces and wire-soldering
Business Plan + venture capitalist + mechanical minds = entreprenuership = $$$
Sounds like you guys need to build the next widget here.
Job? What's a job? I gave up looking a while back. :P At least you all have a marketable skill. Me? I worked at the criminal courthouse for years arguing with attorneys (DAs and Defense!) and listening to defendants lie to me all day long... or was that the attorneys lying? Hard to tell. [bang] What's there to market? [roll]
Quote from: fastwin on November 04, 2009, 11:59:51 AM
Job? What's a job? I gave up looking a while back. :P At least you all have a marketable skill. Me? I worked at the criminal courthouse for years arguing with attorneys (DAs and Defense!) and listening to defendants lie to me all day long... or was that the attorneys lying? Hard to tell. [bang] What's there to market? [roll]
Sounds like a career in dispute resolution to me... lots of years of experience...
Been an RN for 15 years. I can do it for as long as I want. Job security is guaranteed, but highly overrated, IMHO. Zzzzzzzz.....
As Joseph Campbell once said, "Follow your bliss."
If I had it to do over again, I would have kept at working for a motorcycle shop in the daytime, and playing in bands at night. But I settled for a square gig instead.
Find your passion, and stick to it.
wow! that's nuts, i'd have figured an RN job isn't exactly a boring desk job, something relatively new every day, or at least, in new people everyday...
This may sound a little antisocial, but no one I've ever met could take the place in my heart of the '69 Ducati Scrambler or the '66 Gibson ES-335 I had back in the day.
"Rosebud...!"
Quote from: ato memphis on November 03, 2009, 04:35:25 PM
Haha, indeed. This is why I'm going to learn a few new tricks this winter: Making carbon fiber pieces and wire-soldering
Well at least wire soldering won't take very long to master.
indeed, and cf is apparently not all that different from fiberglassing, so not too bad.
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Fantastic thread on a CF tank project.....
http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=145975 (http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=145975)
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wow!
Quote from: muskrat on November 03, 2009, 01:14:04 PM
I too graduated with honors in BS (bullshit)!!!!!!! can I play too?
+1
I have some contacts in the engineering field but they are mostly related to heavy industry like Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Gas Turbines, Generators etc.
It's not really what you WANT to do but everyone does seem to like having their lights on a fuel to run in their vehicles!