I got a job!!!!!

Garbz · Jun 9, 2008

Thanks thanks and thanks!

Btw WDodd funny story. I applied for costing and estimates with large projects at Bechtel. They were looking for an engineer with a business degree so I fit the job rather well. I will turn them down if they call me back. But at the interview they were telling me how their in house IT training facility is awesome.
The day after at my friends BDay party I found out he applied at Bechtel for IT training position! LOL

I'm sure Aker Kvaerner would have an American presence so I doubt you'd need to move to Australia

sunlioness · Jun 9, 2008

Congrats on the job and the great site of yours! It really kept my attention.

Rhys · Jun 9, 2008

Congratulations. I had to fight and struggle after I left college and univerity.

Garbz · Jun 10, 2008

Like the IT crowd does now. It's just a lucky pick. Engineering wasn't that big of a topic when I started my degree. Now the government estimates a shortage of 20000 people in professional engineering and sciences.

Problem is most nearsighted people cause the bubble to burst. There were more than 1100 students enrolled in ENGG1000 this semester! Quite a bit up from the 550 in my class 4 years ago.

Senor Hound · Jun 10, 2008

Garbz said:
Like the IT crowd does now. It's just a lucky pick. Engineering wasn't that big of a topic when I started my degree. Now the government estimates a shortage of 20000 people in professional engineering and sciences.

Problem is most nearsighted people cause the bubble to burst. There were more than 1100 students enrolled in ENGG1000 this semester! Quite a bit up from the 550 in my class 4 years ago.

You sound like you know your stuff. Is either computer networking or computer programming good fields to go in to down there in Aussie land?

Garbz · Jun 11, 2008

Currently not really, unless you're specialised in a specific area like PBX / VoIP conversions that many companies are doing. A good indication if something is needed or not is to check the list of fast tracked working visas for each country. Australia took 50 out of it's 53 IT related ones off a few years ago and they haven't come back yet. I believe mainframe operators / programmers are still in demand but who knows that stuff these days.

That said it's like everything else. The industry is in the slump at the moment and a few of my IT friends are working tech support call centres. New students hear this and don't enrol in IT. Which means 4 years from now (probably much sooner actually) there'll be a massive shortage of IT grads, and engineering will be in the slumps with just our university alone producing 1300 new engineers.

Rinse, and Repeat.

Rhys · Jun 11, 2008

I was one of the suckers that studied IT. I have never known an unemployed engineer!

Senor Hound · Jun 12, 2008

Garbz said:
Currently not really, unless you're specialised in a specific area like PBX / VoIP conversions that many companies are doing. A good indication if something is needed or not is to check the list of fast tracked working visas for each country. Australia took 50 out of it's 53 IT related ones off a few years ago and they haven't come back yet. I believe mainframe operators / programmers are still in demand but who knows that stuff these days.

That said it's like everything else. The industry is in the slump at the moment and a few of my IT friends are working tech support call centres. New students hear this and don't enrol in IT. Which means 4 years from now (probably much sooner actually) there'll be a massive shortage of IT grads, and engineering will be in the slumps with just our university alone producing 1300 new engineers.

Rinse, and Repeat.

Thank you for the awesome info! You're a really smart cat! I love computers, and I'm thinking about programming or networking, but I don't know which. I want to someday become a systems analyst... but they don't really have a degree to learn how to (you kind of just fall in to it after you've worked for so long). Anyway, enough about me, this is about you!

Isn't your job starting a little way out? I mean, usually people start a new job in a month, or even two weeks... I guess it doesn't matter as long as you got the job. I'd be afraid I show up for my first day and they pretend like they don't know who I am and won't let me in (I'm really really paranoid). I'm guessing you graduate in the spring semester? I don't know how semesters work there. In America we let out between May and August, but there, its probably different.

Garbz · Jun 12, 2008

Well it's another sign of the bad times. The job starts in Feb, but due to the ludicrously competitive nature of the companies everyone wants to interview the best and put their offers on the table first. A few years of this and now pretty much every large engineering firm starts the process of hiring graduates at the start of March. It's insane. Not that you need to join a large firm straight up. In fact the small ones pay better, and usually don't have a deadline for applications. They also don't have a proper program that takes you through a wide variety of tasks in the discipline.

We get let out during the summer too, but due to us being hemispherically challenged that means end of December till March. My semester finishes in 2 days at 8pm. Yeah I have an exam on Saturday at 6pm

But it could be worse. All my exams finish a week early so a week extra holidays

Plus it's a very short walk from my exam room to the uni pub. :cheers:

passerby · Jun 26, 2008

Garbz said:
I GOT A JOB!!!!!!! <is dancing and twirling> :cheer: :bouncy:

I was woken by a phone call today from Aker Solutions (formerly Aker Kvaerner) telling me that they would like to offer me a job when I graduate.

I start in Feb and it'll be awesome. Instrument Control Engineering

:goodvibe::goodvibe::goodvibe::goodvibe::goodvibe:

<is moonwalking outta this thread and getting back to the study>