I. Am. So. Happy. It's been a year since I graduated and I finally got one.

10/19/2010 7:04:17 PM

congrats

10/19/2010 7:05:03 PM

congrats! i hope my brother gets one soon. he graduated in may.

10/19/2010 7:05:07 PM

congrats man!

10/19/2010 7:05:23 PM

Fluffer?

10/19/2010 7:05:23 PM

congratulations

10/19/2010 7:05:29 PM

congrats- definitely been in those shoes before. It is such a weight off your back once you get that great call!


did you get what you want? or are you just doing something to pay the bills and get experience?

10/19/2010 7:05:30 PM

congrats... but damn dude, what was your major?

10/19/2010 7:05:40 PM

Yeah man you must have majored in buttfuckin or something

I mean everyone's got a job now, they're handing them out on every corner

What the fuck is wrong with you, you goddamn failure

10/19/2010 7:08:03 PM

He took our JAEEEEEEERB.

10/19/2010 7:10:29 PM

snewf will not approve of this thread.

10/19/2010 7:12:10 PM

jeeez now you guys are making me feel bad for taking a year to get one. I had internships over the course of the year just nothing permanent. My degree is mechanical engineering job but this isn't exactly an engineering job but it's a career path I like. More web/technology analytics (which firefox doesn't say is a word). Anyway I'm happy.

10/19/2010 7:15:48 PM

not making you feel bad, was just curious about your major.

with a mech eng major i would think jobs would be easier to get, with thousands of industries around.

10/19/2010 7:17:56 PM

Yeah but I've been picky about what I want to do. I don't want to move to some bumfuck town and I don't want to do about 75% of what mechanical engineers do. I have a lot of interests but am still picky at the same time. This job lets me travel, small company, and I like the people. I'm happy.

10/19/2010 7:22:30 PM

i too was offered a job today, but i already have a job so I am twice the worker as everyone else

10/19/2010 7:30:02 PM

So you accepted and intend on keeping both?

That has potential as a cheesy comedy.

10/19/2010 7:38:59 PM

haven't accepted the offer, just was offered the job

10/19/2010 7:41:16 PM

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"I don't want to do about 75% of what mechanical engineers do."

...but yet you majored in Mechanical Engineering.

I see

10/19/2010 7:50:10 PM

^not familiar with specialization?

10/19/2010 7:52:05 PM

^seriously. Mechanical Engineering is a very broad degree and I have specific interests. I've been searching and finally got offered a job outside of engineering and took it. I see it going somewhere and I like the company and people who I'll be working with. What's funny is my boss is a mechanical engineer too.

10/19/2010 7:56:06 PM

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"I don't want to move to some bumfuck town"

I didn't either

it took me longer to find a job after I graduated, but it was a good thing

I mean, fuck moving to Texas and working for an oil company

10/19/2010 7:56:37 PM

^ What if they start you out at 65k/yr with lots of incentives?

10/20/2010 12:26:33 AM

Congrats!

10/20/2010 12:27:15 AM

gratz

10/20/2010 12:28:28 AM

I would be happy with 40k and all expenses paid, at least that's what I'm looking forward to if I get accepted and pass OCS next year.

Congrats Neo, now dump your 460's and get triple 480's.

10/20/2010 12:31:54 AM

I was also offered a jerb yesterday with the company agreeing to pay for my master's. But I'd rather start full-time as soon as I graduate so I'm still shopping

/off my high horse

10/20/2010 12:32:06 AM

Wish I could find a job, need track money and new shoes for my baby. She's all lonely in the garage awaiting for parts.

10/20/2010 12:35:30 AM

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"I don't want to move to some bumfuck town and I don't want to do about 75% of what mechanical engineers do"

this describes me pretty much exactly. I hope it doesn't take me a year to find a job

grats on the job though.. hope you enjoy

10/20/2010 1:40:02 AM

I graduated the end of july and just started looking for jobs this past week Hope I find one!

10/20/2010 1:42:17 AM

i was glad to get a job out in bumfuck instead of raleigh

different strokes

10/20/2010 3:06:28 AM

One of my professors, who is on a lot of search boards for new professors, says they have trouble finding professors sometimes b/c potential recruits often consider Raleigh/the triangle region to basically be "bumfuck"

different strokes indeed.

10/20/2010 3:09:25 AM

I would classify Raleigh as "bumfuck nowhere". I mean there's plenty of out of state people who think Charlotte is our Capital...

10/20/2010 8:23:09 AM

Does the term "bumfuck" have to do with bums fucking?..or butt-fucking?
Is it actually in Egypt?

Also, how about podunk? Apparently, there are actual places with that name.
I'd rather live in podunk than bumfuck...

different strokes

10/20/2010 9:42:01 AM

Congrats!

I'm on the job hunt myself

10/20/2010 9:52:45 AM

There's a town in Australia called "Fucking". Not making this shit up.

10/20/2010 10:27:02 AM

its in austria, not australia

10/20/2010 1:04:55 PM

bumfuck means a place where only bums are out fuckin around

10/20/2010 1:06:31 PM

Australia speaks English, I doubt they have a town called "Fucking."

10/20/2010 1:07:35 PM

my bad. My hands got away from my typing and thought I wrote Austria. I just spelled it wrong and auto spell checked without actually looking.

10/20/2010 1:14:14 PM

haha wow. bumfuck or podunk. Good look to people still looking!!

10/20/2010 3:05:03 PM

You're fired!

10/20/2010 3:15:09 PM

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"Fluffer?"

lol

10/20/2010 3:23:58 PM

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"Mechanical Engineering is a very broad degree and I have specific interests. I've been searching and finally got offered a job outside of engineering and took it."

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"this isn't exactly an engineering job but it's a career path I like. More web/technology analytics "

um, what the fuck?

why didn't you just major in Information Sciences and then you could have got 20 jobs like that in the time it took you to get one.

seriously, what a waste of a perfectly good ME degree.

10/20/2010 3:27:01 PM

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"snewf will not approve of this thread."

I do approve!

congrats, neodata!

hopefully I'll score a real job sometime soon too


^ I like your high horse, dude! where'd you get it?


[Edited on October 20, 2010 at 3:31 PM. Reason : -]

10/20/2010 3:31:25 PM

you wouldnt understand. you got a degree in literature.






[Edited on October 20, 2010 at 3:37 PM. Reason : ]

10/20/2010 3:35:51 PM

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"um, what the fuck? why didn't you just major in Information Sciences and then you could have got 20 jobs like that in the time it took you to get one. seriously, what a waste of a perfectly good ME degree."

You're actually quite wrong about most of that. Engineering was one of my interests but not everyone gets a job in the degree they went to school for. It's not a waste if you got through the degree and learned the critical thinking and problem solving skills that can be applied to a variety of fields.

Plus if I had majored in information sciences I would not have gotten this job or anything near as good. My boss is a mechanical engineer and lots of non-engineering companies like hiring engineers because they know they're smart and can think. I worked at a bank for a while and I had managers telling me they love hiring engineers because often they're better at the analytical/math side of finance than finance or accounting majors.

Having that engineering degree doesn't mean you HAVE to go into engineering. It just opens up quite a few possibilities. Most fields are going to look at an engineering degree a lot more favorably than a communications degree or information technologies degree.

[Edited on October 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM. Reason : s]

10/20/2010 4:14:45 PM

okay fine, if you say so.

but just remember this: the longer you stay away from real engineering, the more and more difficult it will be to get a job as a real engineer.

then before you know it you just work some random corporate IT department with a bunch of IS grads and 2-year-diploma admins, and they find out you have a ME degree, they're all going to be like "wtf d00d"




[Edited on October 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM. Reason : ]

10/20/2010 4:19:40 PM

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"^ I like your high horse, dude! where'd you get it?"

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"you wouldnt understand. you got a degree in literature."

LOL

10/20/2010 4:24:24 PM

^^you're assuming I want an engineering job in the future.

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"then before you know it you just work some random corporate IT department with a bunch of IS grads and 2-year-diploma admins, and they find out you have a ME degree, they're all going to be like "wtf d00d""

Not something I would ever do. I see more possibilities in this career path. Pays better and more room for advancement.

10/20/2010 4:27:27 PM

well, i'm still not getting why you got a degree in something you didnt want to do, such that it took you a year to finally do what (i assume) you want to do.

but whatevs, congratulations on getting a job anyhow.

10/20/2010 4:32:49 PM