Do we have any actual engineers in here?

Do we have any actual engineers in here?

As in, people actually earning money?


If so, post job feels
What kind of projects are you working on?
Are you a specialist, or generalist?

>any actual engineers

lolno. I'm just mooching off of government financial assistance at uni while I get barely passable grades just to keep myself busy. I'll probably just get a job being an assistant to some engineering team getting paid a sizable amount while doing nothing but busywork.

Just an "engineer" here. Dropped out of masters due to being a moron.

Currently I am a teamleader of backend developers in London. I am a specialist rather than generalist but my specialisations are covering a lot of the field.

As to the jobfeels, lately it's that
>prepare implementation plan through technical discovery with the team
>start working on the project, ETA 4 months
>2 months in business changes idea of the feature entirely, expects no delays
>burnout, sit there and watch youtube, code my own shit
>2 working days until a month-long holiday

Fug business ppl

I'm an engineer in the sense that I "engineer products out of boxes and onto the shelf" at a supermarket.

I'm an Interaction Engineer.

I'm an actual engineer, but nothing Sup Forums related.
Degree is in chemical engineering and I do process engineering at a corn mill, currently working on steam dryer efficiency

Shitposting engineer here, AMA

I know tfw

I recently graduated with a MSc in enviromental engineering. But work as a programmer because all these experienced jobless oil engineers take all the jobs and now I earn way more money as a python programmer than I would with any job relevant to my degree.

Datascientist here. Just quit because job feels : I was making botnetware for advertising.

Not Sup Forums-related engineer, I guess.

Global business engineering with a masters in supply-chain-management.

What is love

No.

There used to be a ton of EEs here on Sup Forums before the in/v/asion.

are you cool like linus?

Just popped in to say i am a system engineer and my life sucks dick because i work for a gay hospital and everyone has aids

$95k plus double the sys admin's vacation hours

Lead developper on an Azure IoT Hub equivalent (can't say much)

So we actually have at least some people with job experience on here

Maybe one of you faggits has some input for me

I'm working at a software agency as software developer / engineer right now.
Cool job, lots of different projects -- Regular mobile apps, VR / AR, Backends, anything goes

Issue I have is that I am obviously required to stay a generalist to keep this position. Mile wide and an inch deep.

Any ideas how I could specialize in my free time after work and on weekends?
Going back to university full-time is not an option since this is a one in a million job that I want to keep

Are those online "micro degrees" worth it? Took a quick look at a data scientist "degree" and it didn't seem very in-depth, more like one of those shitty coding boot camps

Dude that job sounds chill, why do you hate it? You'll probably get used to the hospital environment if that's what bothers you.

Not yet. Still an undergrad student.

Working in CFD right now. Have a masters in Computational Engineering. It is pretty chill and the pay is good.

>57943928
Industrial Engineer here. I work at Design and Engineering of packaging (soda, water and juice bottles bassically) and automobile parts.

Employed Haskell engineer reporting in
$300k and a stunning hot secretary

math major?

Embedded software engineer.
Just started last May right after graduating from college.
Still not sure if I like it.
I basically spend all day patching assembly code for a very niche product. Most of the time it's boring, occasionally it's interesting if the customer asks for something unusual. But mostly it's very minor changes and I don't do much actual coding. Most of the time is spent testing (physically, which takes a few hours, since it's not a product for which testing is easily automated) and figuring out exactly what the customer's problem is because they're often ridiculously vague.
The pay blows. Probably what some here would call "starvation wages" or "exploitation". I'm generally a frugal person so it's not affecting my life that much, but it still sucks to hear people when they say "I'd never take a job that pays that low, even right out of college"... when talking about one that pays almost double what I make.
Work environment kind of blows too. they fell for the standing desks meme and the open workspace meme. And it's in a part of town with nothing but gray concrete buildings, surrounded by strip malls and empty dirt lots.
The one saving grace is the people. There's no drama, and I don't have to work with arrogant neckbeards like in college. Even my boss is chill, I never get scolded for taking too long on something, even if he knows it's because I was shitposting on company time. I only ever had to stay late once since starting, and it was only like 30 minutes more.

>standing desks meme

wait what

how does that even work

are you literally standing in front of a computer the entire fucking day?

It's a regular desk, but chest level so you can use all your stuff while standing.
It comes with a chair, but the chair is so uncomfortable you wind up going back to standing after 20 minutes.
See pic related, not what I have at work but the setup is a lot like it.

Kek

Question for everyone here with a software eng. job:

I see people here and on other message boards say "I only do 1 hour of actual work per day, the rest I spend shitposting" How true is this? Are they exaggerating? For me it's more like 2 hours of shitposting and 6 hours of work.

I only have a degree in translation and interpreting, but I do systems programming for a living. Technically not an engineer, although I do the work of one and have engineer subordinates.

Have they fallen for hotdesking? That's the worst one.

I had a job like that. It was awful.

Kek, I could literally be making $300k writing Haskell.

Unfortunately the work was super shitty. I wrote three lines of Haskell for their abuse detection rule engine, but the quality and data management work made it take over two days.

Also, it's only $300k+ because of a signing bonus, so next year, it would have been less.

I have 2 jobs.

One I am a mailman, which covers all my health benefits, pension, and covers rent + food and daily exercise walking up steep streets on the side of mountains in Canada. I finish in 6 hours, work 10:30-4:30.

Two, I am a contract code auditor and "security engineer" but only contracted to one company, which hires security consultants. I basically look at laughably terrible Ruby/Rails code all day long in emacs and find bugs to fix. Most are very boring, CRUD apps though I did have a contract last year to help audit a Keccak HSM with a PhD and that was interesting, would love to go back to doing that and not just rewriting basic handlers all day.

I get up at 4:00am and do the contracting until I have to go to my other job so my mind is fresh while doing it. This has some good tradeoffs, one is that I can refuse contracts I don't want to do because I already have another income and two I can fuck off from my union job whenever I want because I have a second income.

Before I started security contracting, I worked for this startup. The entire job consisted of everybody sending me memes on Slack and doing absolutely no work whatsoever, and when they did I had to correct their commits anyway.

There was no managers, as they had a 'flat hierarchy' so essentially an absentee founder was around somewhere that I never talked to beyond being hired so I just quit as I got tired of memes and commit fixing. They had no idea I quit and I still get employee emails all the time in fact I could probably sign in there and clock in again to get paid.

I'm a satellite engineer but I don't have a degree.
Currently I'm transmitting a volleyball match

No

What's so bad about a job where you barely have to work?

Your management and the source of tasks for you to work on will have a large factor in this, I'm at a company where our software products are all being developed on contract with various government agencies and forensics departments in other countries and I have a lot less work right now than I did just 4 months ago because right now we have multiple such contracts up for renegotiation all at once

Software engineer for 5 person company in Manhattan, New York. Two engineers total.

I make $95k.

Not only do I write the majority of the software, I'm the IT dude as well. The software I write is used by a few big defense contractors and a very large government agency.

I am the original writer (90% of the codebase is mine).

I have worked here for two years so far and have not yet received a single raise or bonus.

Since they refuse, I've started coming into work between at 2 PM and I stop working as soon as everyone else leaves.

They have been bitching about it for the past six months and they still won't budge.

They're too cheap to give me a raise yet they literally cannot afford to fire me since a replacement would be nearly impossible.

Feels good man :)

Correction: I come to work between 2 and 4. Usually 3.

Not engineer but devops here. Servers have shitty boot times.

>devops

What is it you actually do day to day?

I've been wondering for a while now why we still haven't completely and utterly automated anything server related

...

Going back to college, not sure in what direction I should go.

Any recommendations?

I'm currently working as Power Plant Operator, I enjoyed the job and were pretty good but working shift and a lot of overtime killed it for me.

I'm currently studying Chemical Engineering.
just fucking kill me please.

Software Engineer in defense/aerospace. Been doing this for two years.

I make 80k. The work is slow sometimes and staggering other times, and honestly I prefer when there's actually shit to do. Sitting around shitposting gets boring.

Badass.

Software engineering. Finance. Backend (db, api, misc web) stuff

Even if it is automated it breaks. Even if it doesn't break it needs to continue to scale. Even if you don't need to scale manually you still need to manage it on a cloud infrastructure platform. Even if you are using AWS/Azure/etc you still need someone to setup, configure and tune everything.

Infrastructure is much more complicated these days than ever before, and you can shift the burden away from low-level but that means that traditional sysadmins just need more development skillsets as they approach new ways to manage code, deployments and infrastructure.

Not that poster by the way, but I do "systems engineering" at a large company.

Does the sort that drives trains count?

I have engineer in my title, if that counts.

Where are you from, my brother does this. I wonder if you were one of his underlings.

I have a friend that gets triggered every time he hears the word "software engineer". He claims it makes actual engineers cringe. Can someone here define software engineer for me?

Same and working from home for about 3 years straight. Comfy as fuck

The people who cringe at the phrase software engineer probably wouldn't be able to apply their methodologies to software and still keep up with the business. There is a reason it is the way it is.

The engineer term has gone too far, but I don't think software engineering is cringeworthy.

EE in auto industry. 70k. Stressful work because of tight deadlines, tons of poo-in-loos, shit tons of bullshit processes to get through.

That being said, I've learned a shit ton since graduating last year, and I'm getting calls twice a week to jump ship with bigger salaries. I might consider it after new years.

Software engineer in flyover USA. $300k/yr.
Been doing this gig for too long and getting bored but the pay is good. Want to get back to lower level stuff for fun.

I'm a social worker who has always liked tech and am a linux hobbyist.

I fucked up my life going down this career path because I hate people but wanted something easy to do.

I regret my major every single day, I'm debating trying to learn python or something and getting enough programming skill to somehow transition into a programming career but I feel like I probably won't be good enough.

It kills me when I see desks/tables like this. It's literally just a veneered saw table.

No just a loser in minimum wage job since 16 now 27 ama.

RF engineer here. The industry is pretty bad considering the demand isn't as strong after 4G was deployed. There's talk about building denser networks and 5G as a fixed wireless solution but I don't think it's going to be a game changer. This could be because it's my first job after graduating but the work is incredibly stupid. Most of the engineers are basically just generating reports and aren't smart enough to script their tasks or the project is so poorly organized that there is no reliable way to pull data. I slowly realized that a lot of the engineers are missing some fundamental RF knowledge which is embarrassing.

I've been busy trying to finish getting a Masters in communication engineering but once that's done I want to switch to a development role where RF background would be needed. I hate grad school so much. I hope it actually pays off.

Software Engineer at Microsoft. 140k/year. It's okay. Work is interesting and impacts millions of users, but I feel like I'd be happier working at the Internet Archive or Mozilla or something.

OP don't bother with that shit.
Just be my personal buttslut and I'll pay for your titty skittles and everything.

Two jobs, three incomes: I am a tutor at local university (Czech Republic) teaching basic Algorithm and Data Structures, and basic C#. It's about 6 hours a week. Secondly, I develop/test/whatever a. NET web framework, hours varies greatly but I generally just help out, not even part-time. The third income is my disability pension.