Day 10, New Engineer’s First Job: Personal Development
Dear Diary, Day 10. Two weeks finished, last Monday seems like a year ago. Time flies when you are having fun right? It actually hasn’t been that bad, a lot of ups and downs, bit of a roller-coaster but on balance I think I came out on top. When I was at school, careers advice […]
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Day 9, New Engineer’s First Job: Mistakes
Dear Diary, Day 9. I really dodged a bullet on Tuesday. I spent all day fine tuning my computer model of my design in preparation for John my manager to review my progress. He wanted a few changes made which undid all of my fine tuning so I essentially wasted the entire day. I think […]
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Day 8, New Engineer’s First Job: Manufacturing
Dear Diary, Day 8. During my design review yesterday with John, my manager, he said that I should get input from the manufacturing department on my design. I was surprised, I had always understood that engineers design the products and it is up to manufacturing to figure out the best way to make it. John’s […]
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Day 7, New Engineer’s First Job: Just Good Enough
Dear Diary, Day 7. Tuesday morning, I never liked Tuesdays. On Mondays you are just waking up from the weekend but on Tuesdays you are wide awake and still really far from next weekend. It helps a little that the sun is out. The sun shines at 7am . . . who knew! John the […]
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Day 6, Graduate Engineer’s New Job: Confident not Cocky
Dear Diary, Day 6. At tea break, Steven, the engineer who pranked me last week, invited me to join them for breakfast. On Monday mornings, most of the team take an extended tea break and go to a nearby cafe for a fried breakfast. John, the Engineering Manager, turns a blind eye, he says most […]
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