• Question: Is your job what you expected it would be? If different, then how is it different?

    Asked by Erin.H0wells to Philippa, Pete, Neil on 15 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Philippa Jefferis

      Philippa Jefferis answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      I started getting work experience from when I was 18 so I have had first hand experience of what job I might end up doing. It does vary from company to company, but there are lots of similarities.

      I guess before that I didn’t really know what to expect, and I never realised how engineering is so much more than just maths. Yes we use it a lot but I also have to consider so many other things when designing.

    • Photo: Neil Taylor

      Neil Taylor answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      Hi!

      I think that coming out of University there are some realities about working as an engineer that you haven’t really dealt with before and need to accept pretty quickly – especially budgets and deadlines! At the end of the day, you are using your engineering skill to produce something – and there will usually be an acceptable timescale and cost associated with this!

      However, most of the aspects of work life surpassed my expectations – in particular the teamwork and on-the-job learning aspects.

      Hope this helps!

    • Photo: Pete Symons

      Pete Symons answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      Hi Erin.H0wells,

      Coming out of uni I didn’t know what I expected partly because I didn’t know I wanted to be an Engineer, but even after I started down the engineer path I didn’t expect to be where I am now. I was very technically focused when I started, nowadays I have more than just a technical role, I develop business and I manage staff and I manage the military part of the business I’m in which involves finance, project management and marketing.

      So it is very different from when I first started and most of all I enjoy it

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