The Importance Of A Career In Electrical Engineering

Being an employable engineer is being someone who possesses not only the technical skills required to do the job, but also the personal qualities that are necessary to function effectively in the workplace. These qualities are possessed by overcoming traps and the demonstration of negative behaviors. I personally am a student who needs to evaluate whether or not I am employable based on this standard. By exploring the traps I fall into and the behaviors I exhibit that will impede me on my journey toward a career in electrical engineering, I can recognize and work toward improving these shortcomings.

First, I will discuss traps I often fall into. Out of the list of traps that unemployable engineers fall into, the three that my experience most

I don 't know if to want to be an engineer. I know that I will be because I am a extremely determined individual, but there are moments when I glimpse another life that could be mine. My mom always tells me bit to compare my insides with other people 's outsides, but it 's difficult. Sometimes I see other people following a different path who seem so happy and it 's hard to know that all this will be worth it, that someday I will be employable and my employer will be paying me a lot more than the person who is having a grand old time now. It 's also hard to know if that money is still going to be something that I prioritize when I reach that point. I am genuinely grateful to be here studying electrical engineering at UMaine and I have really enjoyed electrical engineering so far, making circuits and problem solving to manipulate them into functioning properly. I even enjoyed programming so unexpectedly last semester that I am currently considering a double major with computer engineering, but I still have moments of doubt what I think I should quit and pursue farming and live a low-impact, off-grid life. I realize weak commitment is a trap that unemployable engineers fall into, but I 've always been taught that a critical eye and a level of doubt about the path forward is a good quality. It has made me feel like, in continuing on that path, I have made an informed decision. It 's hard to reframe and realize that failure is likely in engineering if any part of my being is unconvinced of the path