you could always be a government slave like me.....paycheck every 2 weeks...although i work 9-13 hours a day sometimes 6 days a week =).....the best part is the longer your in the more you make, i also have a vehicle with over 30,000hp...not many can say that lol....as long as you can live with no sleep, and listen to idiots all day.......i hate my life, i wanna be a civilian again!!!

 

Steph, What is your course of study?

 

im a senior(wont be graduating till december) and i have yet to get an internship haha. stephanie your ME now too right? ive seen you a couple times in the computer lab slaving away on what looks to be cse123...the worst class ever lol. i have an interview wednesday next week, and i could really use the money this summer. senior design class is the only "experience" i have, and the company im doing work for for senior design class is the one im hoping to get an internship with this summer, so im crossing my fingers. good luck on getting one...get to know people, cuz that is 100% true about not what u know but who you know...i kno some dumb engineers who have already had 2 summers worth of internships and cant add 2 and 2...

 

yea, cse 123 was the death of me last semester lol. your not graduating until next semester because I thought this was your last one? What company are u doing sd with?

I am just getting frustrated cause I've been to a few interviews, and whenever I've been to an interview in the past that usually meant I had a job. So of course I had high hopes, but I haven't had any offers yet.

Dave- these are paid summer internships and I can't take on a job while during the semester, its too much stress and I am not good at taking a lot of stress. Do you by any chance have the e-mails of these engineers you know? I really don't mind driving however far they are.

Joe- the school did do an internship fair, I heard back from one company there and had an interview, but apparently they were interviewing 20 people for one position. What a waste. Out of the 15 applications I put out to different companies, only 5 were affiliated through that, the rest I did on my own. And I know how frustrating it was for you, it makes me feel a little better.

I actually got an email later today from a really big company around here, and he said he planned to call me. So hopefully I'll hear from this place soon

 

ill have to check them out tomorrow. Such a big company, they probably hire a lot of interns too!

 

Mechanical Engineering if I don't decide to commit suicide in the making.. hehe just kidding

 

yea, well i was planning on graduating this yr, but fortunately(whoops, did i say that out loud), i have one more semester left at school. (lots of engineers go an extra semester, especially those of us who commuted to a branch(west hartford) their first two years and were limited in their classes haha) Im doing sd w/ Rogers...they are a pretty decent sized company, but not many ppl have heard about them before. dont get your hopes up tho, most ppl dont even ever get an internship, and the ones that do dont usually get one until summer before their senior year

 

BTW my g/f graduated college last spring. She went on at least 20 different interviews for 20 different companies before getting her job in the courts. She got frustrated driving all over the north and south shore going to interviews but she landed a good job. It does suck though.

 

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Originally Posted by lilstephsls1

it kind of sucks hard when you’ve been unemployed for almost five months and you have to pay bills/college and your daily driver is shitting the bed. Hopefully ill get lucky soon.

Now you see why way back when I said quitting wasn't a good thing!

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Originally Posted by lilstephsls1

my resume is with about 15 companies and the only ones I hear back from are ones that I have a friend or family member that works there.

During the 3 months I was unemployed I sent out an easy 15-20 resumes or more per week.

You gotta look what the qualifications are for the job & if you feel you meet 60% or so of the qualifications, put in for the job.

Companies know no one has all 100% of the qualifications as postings are usually for the "ideal" candidate.

I got extremely lucky that after the literally hundreds of resumes I sent that the 2nd job I actually interviewed at was the place that hired me.

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Originally Posted by GM Muscle

let the T/A sit until you can afford to bring it out. No need to over extend yourself over a car.

That's pretty much what I did.

Last week while at Don's while we were going over the extensive, to me anyway, list of mods & things I want Don to do to my TA he says " I take it the new job is going good since your spending money on the car again".

"Yep, so far so good" I said.

After this mod round a new rear will somewhat complete the major mods list.

Anyway Steph, hang in there, & if you do as I suggested above, while a bit more "work", you'll find you'll get more "bites" for jobs.

BTW, how's your resume look?

I learned how while on unemployment through our local career center (unemployment office) with the help of 2 state qualified resume writers to write & tailor resumes.

I now can write a pretty mean resume, which after learning these skills & rewriting my resume, helped me get the job I’m at now & if you think you need help, LMK & I’ll help you with rewriting yours,

Good luck.

 

Just for the record, it has nothing to do with that bartending job. Quitting that job I have to say was probably one the best decisions I made in my life. When I quit that job, my GPA went from a 2.0 to a 3.2, and I get to go out on the weekends now. Definitely a great decision in my book

This time around I am looking for a real job per say, a summer internship, something that will look good for my resume when I graduate. I had my resume critiqued 4 times at UConn (they have a career center). I just think it's because I really don't have much substance to the resume, and I competing with other people that have already had internships. I guess I'll just have to keep trying. I never knew it was this frustrating... oh well

 

If your willing to drive, I'm pretty sure Holy Cross college (Worcester) might have an opening available soon in your field. I'll see if i can find some details for you if your interested.

 

im up for anything

 

I checked today, and we are not doing any internships this summer. Like I said, who you know. We did hire the last 2 Summer help we had as assistant engineers. About $45-50K to start. I know Sterns & Wheeler out of CT, & Black & Veach out of Boston.

 

If you are willing to drive to the Boston area, I might be able to help.

 

sorry to hear steph...it'll all work out im sure i'll go through the same **** after school and end up doing oil changes at jiffy lube for a couple of years...

 

Check out http://www.gdc4s.com/ they occasionally have mechanical engineer openings. I'm a software engineer at GD. I found a mechanical engineering position but it said they want 7+ years. There is usually other positions though that take college hires and if you take that job that might not be in your field of study, if you stay in it for a little while then switching to other jobs within the company is usually pretty easy.

 

hey steph, haha i am in the same exact boat. My daily driver shitbox explorer needs alot of work and i've been unemployed for 5 months, i fixed the rear in the camaro but i can't drive it because i can't afford to put it on insurance. Sucks cause it's been beautiful out the past 2 days and i can't drive it. Good luck finding a job it will all work out don't worry!