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Electrical Engineers and/or drafters, need help/advice.
I'm trying to get a quick job so I can build up experience. My father keeps telling me to go take some
classes in AutoCAD and get some certificate for it and apply to a firm, and while I'm there, learn
electrical theory and use my salary to fund a degree in EE.
That sounds fine and all, but is that feasible? He bases this on experience from coworkers from other
countries finding work in firms and taking night classes for their title.
His way seems the most practical and direct, I already have certificates for networking and I haven't
landed a single job with them, it's all senior level administrators.
Is my father right in hsi idea of doing electrical design as an entry level job and if not, is there
another way to work in a similar field or do I stay the basic course and let a McJob pay for my EE
degree? I hope I'm making sense.
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I'm an electrical engineer, but I earned a drafting degree 10 years ago.
Never got a job with it. Ended up getting a shitty factory job as a machine operator and climbed up from their. The engineering department didn't want me, but maintenance did. Still at the same factory, but working as an automation technician now.
Your father's coworkers are from other countries. They are working for dirt cheap. At a job fair, one of the companies flat out admitted they were outsourcing drafting work.
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>Your father's coworkers are from other countries. They are working for dirt cheap
That makes sense. My father has long since retired, so he thinks that drafting with AutoCAD or being an AutoCAD operator would serve as entry level, but he was in Texas then, and I'm in Florida now. I had a sinking feeling his drafting days are a relic.
Any advice for me? Should I just find any job whatsoever to get the EE degree?
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