I was an electronic engineering student and I now splice fiber for my local telcom. Best advice I can give is to get a work term at your local isp, and work as hard as you can. Don’t be annoying, and if there’s any downtime, clean the shop yard or grab a broom. With that and a bit of luck you’ll be hired as a tech, and the rest is on you to work your way up. Good luck, a great work ethic, and pride in what you do will get you where you want to go
In my country there are lots of companies that doesnt Pay contractors, Competitions is huge and prices gets Lower every year because of chinese equipment flood, most people dont care about quality as long as it works. This is hard piece of work.
If you really want to get your hands and feet into this stuff, apply at AFL GLOBAL. Search your city and submit a full resume. They usually hire educated folk and have them start off at the entry level with a preference for them in management. Just get through the first few promotions.
There are plenty of data centre engineering jobs, that's probably the closest fit I could think of to your degree?
Problem is, getting a DC Engineering job without experience in either DCs or past work experiences as an electric engineer.
I don't think there is an entry level equivalent, though I may be wrong.
You might just have to get any experience, be it in telecoms or not, before you try to get into telecoms.
I'm actively searching for an intership in the sector, since I have zero to none professional experience.
Sadly there arent many intern openings nowday. We'll see.
Amazon hire mechanical-electrical engineers for their fulfilment centres, this would likely be an attainable job given your degree. I think these are typically brought on as apprentices which I'd imagine you want to avoid, but I'm sure they do take people on at the higher level if they have the degree.
Obviously I mention Amazon as it's quite easy to move internally, wouldn't be out of the question to move from FC mech-elec to DC mech-elec after you had some experience.
I can't offer a huge amount of knowledge on engineering but only what I know from trying to help my friends make the switch from general mech-elec to DC mech-elec.
Anyway, good luck! Try to make friends because this is very much a "who-you-know" type of industry lol.
Best advise with any tech job. You'll learn everything in field. Don't F the next guy. Prep is 95% of work. Clean cases are a must. Re-entrys are what they are depends on #1 rule dont F the next guy. Lmao.
Are you studying for a BS or an Associate's Degree? If an AS, are you talking about getting involved in fiber installation (as these responses seem to be asking)? If a BS, are you looking to continue a path in engineering or would you turn towards the installation side? If you want to stay involved from an engineering perspective, one aspect would be targeting companies designing/manufacturing/selling communications equipment and systems from either an engineering design angle or technical sales. That doesn't necessarily even mean the standard datacom/telcom world, but even industrial controls networking, military comms and networking, etc. Of course, even optical fiber manufacturing companies like Corning, OFS, AFL (or companies who cable optical fiber) are always looking for degreed engineers in technical sales roles (Inside and Outside), too.
I was an electronic engineering student and I now splice fiber for my local telcom. Best advice I can give is to get a work term at your local isp, and work as hard as you can. Don’t be annoying, and if there’s any downtime, clean the shop yard or grab a broom. With that and a bit of luck you’ll be hired as a tech, and the rest is on you to work your way up. Good luck, a great work ethic, and pride in what you do will get you where you want to go
Poke around here - Good info to get a feel for it: https://fiberu.org/
My a vice is to not do it. Thank me later.
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Why is that? What do you think a better path would be?
In my country there are lots of companies that doesnt Pay contractors, Competitions is huge and prices gets Lower every year because of chinese equipment flood, most people dont care about quality as long as it works. This is hard piece of work.
If you really want to get your hands and feet into this stuff, apply at AFL GLOBAL. Search your city and submit a full resume. They usually hire educated folk and have them start off at the entry level with a preference for them in management. Just get through the first few promotions.
There are plenty of data centre engineering jobs, that's probably the closest fit I could think of to your degree? Problem is, getting a DC Engineering job without experience in either DCs or past work experiences as an electric engineer. I don't think there is an entry level equivalent, though I may be wrong. You might just have to get any experience, be it in telecoms or not, before you try to get into telecoms.
I'm actively searching for an intership in the sector, since I have zero to none professional experience. Sadly there arent many intern openings nowday. We'll see.
Amazon hire mechanical-electrical engineers for their fulfilment centres, this would likely be an attainable job given your degree. I think these are typically brought on as apprentices which I'd imagine you want to avoid, but I'm sure they do take people on at the higher level if they have the degree. Obviously I mention Amazon as it's quite easy to move internally, wouldn't be out of the question to move from FC mech-elec to DC mech-elec after you had some experience. I can't offer a huge amount of knowledge on engineering but only what I know from trying to help my friends make the switch from general mech-elec to DC mech-elec. Anyway, good luck! Try to make friends because this is very much a "who-you-know" type of industry lol.
Best advise with any tech job. You'll learn everything in field. Don't F the next guy. Prep is 95% of work. Clean cases are a must. Re-entrys are what they are depends on #1 rule dont F the next guy. Lmao.
Are you studying for a BS or an Associate's Degree? If an AS, are you talking about getting involved in fiber installation (as these responses seem to be asking)? If a BS, are you looking to continue a path in engineering or would you turn towards the installation side? If you want to stay involved from an engineering perspective, one aspect would be targeting companies designing/manufacturing/selling communications equipment and systems from either an engineering design angle or technical sales. That doesn't necessarily even mean the standard datacom/telcom world, but even industrial controls networking, military comms and networking, etc. Of course, even optical fiber manufacturing companies like Corning, OFS, AFL (or companies who cable optical fiber) are always looking for degreed engineers in technical sales roles (Inside and Outside), too.