Enjoyed your video Lilly and appreciate what you want to do. I am a retired Electrical Engineer doing RF and Microwave Communication Systems from ASIC to System Level and yes I retired as and engineer after 40 years. One of the things I learned back in the bad old days was never expect to stay at any company for more than 3 to 4 years, tops, unless you are having some sort of meteoric rise or your stock options are just too valuable to leave behind. The company gets stale, you get stale and eventually one settles into irrelevance. The other is if you want that sense of ownership then you have to go the startup route. Startups offer broad areas of responsibility where you are the go to person. It is a lot of work though and most startups fail but you leverage the experience you gained to the next gig and it shows the next company you have entrepreneur mind set. Never restrict your geographic options especially if the opportunity can really add some steam to your experience tool kit - after all you are only going to be there a couple of years anyway. The other thing it took me a long time to learn is it is ALWAYS better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission. There is a lot of competition for the desirable job assignments and sometimes you have to do things in a skunk works mode - that is do a project without your managers permission on your own time and once you have the project complete and showable bring in your team and manager and show them what you did on your own time and sometimes own money. I did just this several times when the team working on a project was approaching it all wrong (group think) and my out of the blue solution literally saved the project and company. Finally, never work for a company where the CEO and upper management are not engineers. Too many companies wrongly believe that engineers do not make good CEO's and put in marketing types or accountants at the top spot. Those folks just do not know the reality of what it takes to lead a tech company. Just look at who have run the greatest companies over the last 50 years Jobs, Woz, Musk, Moore and hosts of others. Every company I have been at that had a marketer or accountant running them failed miserably. Good Luck with your career, you have all the tools to do great things so don't let some SOB stand in your way.
@zackdenis1637
Жыл бұрын
this was very helpful
@ogun3378
4 жыл бұрын
I did exactly the same thing, i came to the same conclusion as you when i worked as an engineer. Mechanical design engineer turned entrepreneur. My main goal is to invent my own products. What this pandemic/government showed me is never to depend on any company but yourself.
@keiarash5058
3 жыл бұрын
I currently work as an electrical engineer. Entrepreneurship has always interested me, the problem is I have no idea what type of business I should build!
@davek1728
3 жыл бұрын
if you are handy an installation company?. Implementing existing technology like renewable energy tech, HVAC, solar power... ?
@soulseeker1651
3 жыл бұрын
Chemical engineer here. Got disillusioned with the whole corporate and 9-5 BS. I didn't get a degree to do QC and technician work and be managed by a dude with no degree and them telling me someday they will have an engineering position open. I like working for myself even if it is just a side hustle like Doordash or uber. Honestly.
@davek1728
3 жыл бұрын
You could go breaking bad :)
@farhansheikh7790
2 жыл бұрын
Story that overlaps to my life story😀...... Lilly I am also in the same situation as you were before quiting the job. I am also the Electrical engineer and had the myths that I will be designing the systems and all these things... But now, I have to adjust myself as my manager wants me to be... 😏
@johannndsouza
3 жыл бұрын
I quit my job in December 2019, i completely support your decision, exactly what you said made me quit. They dangled the promotion carrot in front of me and took it away every time the time came. After they tricked me for about 6 years i decided to quit.
@LillyandMark
3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you left if they weren’t promoting you. An engineer once told me that if you want to make the most money, find a new job every 5 years. If I stayed in engineering, I would probably do that😂
@joshuacharlery8614
3 жыл бұрын
It took you six years to figure that out fam? Nah Fam, that's unacceptable. At least you quit!
@bobos9378
3 жыл бұрын
I really could not agree more with all of these points, I’ve been doing the full time thing out of university for nearly 4 years and I just feel super burnt out. I prefer setting out my own schedule and routine. Feels good to know there are others out there that feel the same.
@vontrae
5 жыл бұрын
Great video Lily For myself, I decided to stop pursuing Engineering jobs because I know I won’t be staying at whatever company I land a job at long term. It’s like, why not go ahead and work on your own career versus looking for someone to put your career in the hands of.. even for a short time?!
@LillyandMark
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yes that is one thing about engineering jobs; they want you there for the long run. I think if someone is pursuing it, they should on plan on staying there for at least a year.
@exmachina767
4 жыл бұрын
What she is saying is, in my experience, only partially true. It’s true that in corporate jobs you tend to slow down your growth if you’re a cog in a large machine, but working on your own also has the big disadvantage of not having a set of peers that help you acquire good engineering practices (in science this would be the equivalent of not having peer review). Also, most serious engineering these days happens in teams, so working alone doesn’t prepare you for the challenges that show up in those settings. I think a good balance can be found by working in small teams with great engineers (e.g., rising startups). Also, not all corporate jobs are as rigid and mind-numbing as described in this video, but your mileage may vary. For the first three years of my career, I worked at a corporation where my team designed a programming language and built a compiler and other tools. For quite a few years I was very focused on that, at the expense of web technologies and other stuff, but I learned many fundamentals there, how bigger projects are actually built, and other lessons which I’ve been able to use in later stages of my career. I’m sure I would have missed a lot of that if I had chosen to go solo at the start of my career (first year or two).
@avgholson8143
3 жыл бұрын
I'm in the same boat. Leaving civil engineering/construction.
@davek1728
3 жыл бұрын
How can you do everything by yourself as an engineer? Most engineers NEED a company because the skills learned are not applicable so you need training on the job or you need high tech and money to start a project. Ok, not if you are in computer science but chemical, material, mechanical, nuclear, biomedical all need companies or are company depended. In my opinion most medical jobs like dentist, physician or veterinarian are types of jobs with high training where you do everything yourself. If i'm wrong, please enlighten me, i would like to learn more about engineers working for themselves.
@clean_rene
Ай бұрын
I was wondering the exact same thing, but I noticed in a comment that she said she left engineering. my field is civil/environmental engineering. I know all engineering fields are different, but I can't imagine how you can work on your own as an engineer without a professional engineering license. and most states, you have to work under a licensed professional engineering for at minimum four years before you qualify to sit for the exam. so yeah I wouldn't advise quitting and going solo after one year. just sounds to me like she couldn't wait out the boring part. because as she mentioned, once you hit that 5 year mark/get a license, then you can have more control. I feel waiting the time is good because you don't know what you dont know in early stages.
@ievam6879
3 жыл бұрын
My dad is an engineer and He doesnt allow me to study Engineering lol
@harryismyqueen5269
3 жыл бұрын
Why?
@mikaelawaye2242
5 жыл бұрын
thank you for making this video. I have been struggling with going for Electrical engineering but I have felt a CS/math double major would be better for me so I could start my own business that I want to do. I figure Im a RN right now and can just focus on paying down my debt and working on a degree set that will allow me to do the job I want to some day. You are totally my hero for going after your dreams.
@LillyandMark
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, friend! Honestly, any technical degree will be good for business as the main skills you need to have is how to think logically, experiment, and develop processes that get results. Keep working! You'll get that job :)
@mikaelawaye2242
5 жыл бұрын
@@LillyandMark thank you for the honest reply. I have been taking one computer related class/data science class per term (along with the pre engineering classes) just because i know how important these are in our age :)
@stefanoancea9886
5 жыл бұрын
that is why when you are starting and you are inexperienced you choose to work in a startup where you have control on almost everything, and not in a corporation, where everybody controls you. In a startup you learn a LOT. And you are allowed to be creative with a minimal risk.
@LillyandMark
5 жыл бұрын
True! I always wished I would've started working in a startup. It would've been fast-paced, which is more my style of work.
@thenomadengineer8866
3 жыл бұрын
Hi lilly, just discovered your channel and as a really young engineering student (1st yr in italian eng school) interested in entrepreneurship i loooove it. Precisely what is your business all about? 🤗
@arlieferguson3990
3 жыл бұрын
I just wonder about feasibility of finding a part time Engineering job. It seems like the most experienced engineers would be the ones they were hire.
@RockingFinance
4 жыл бұрын
I totally support everything said in this video, BUT, I agree with "My Nontraditional Life" - you said you worked for a year at a company, and quit to start your own business. Well, the main problem here is nobody can just quit a job without any "backup": your expenses stay there, even when minimized, but the income stops right when you quit your job. Did you have savings? Did you have someone supporting you (like..living with parents)? I would love if you expanded this video with suggestions on what did you do once you quit - any business needs time to gain momentum: a year or two. Like, you mentioned you'd go to the doctor in the middle of the day, but insurance alone for a self-employed person is "through the roof" when you don't have those corporate discounts and stable income. I believe it's not that simple to quit a day job and immediately produce at least $1000/month to afford just basics like rent and food, not speaking of extras like insurance. Also, if you have to search and email clients all day, and make these side projects instead of working on your main business, then how is that different from being at the office all day? Please, don't take it as interrogation :) I'm just curious, and need more input from entrepreneurs like you guys.
@LillyandMark
4 жыл бұрын
We can make a video about this!
@RockingFinance
4 жыл бұрын
@@LillyandMark that would be great! thank you
@avgholson8143
3 жыл бұрын
3:05 that part
@joshuacharlery8614
3 жыл бұрын
You are an engineer. Why are you using a mac? Get you a windows girl!
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