Hi,
I’m an engineer in its late 30s and I sometime go to high-school talking about my job, my scholar background, etc… I remember being very stressed about my future at that time, so I try to tell them what I wish someone had told me 20 years ago.
If any teens are reading this (or people in contact with teens), what topics or advice would you want to hear from some random dude like me ?
Thanks for your help
ps: I know most of lemmy users are middle age, but there is no way I create account on shitktok, Insta or stuff.
hi, I’m 16, I’m planning to get an engineering course for college, I’m currently on senior high school.
I wanna know how difficult engineering course, and the work itself could be?
Depends on the type of engineering. What gets you interested? Amy projects you wish you could help with?
I’m interested in electronics engineering, I would like to contribute or maybe just assemble or repair electronic products
Cool. I do both high power electronics and structural engineering, a lot of my stuff lives in harsh environments and has to run for months without anyone around to check on it.
There’s a lot of cool work related to moving energy around without losing it as heat too. Most of that’s in the University labs right now, but some interesting stuff has already made its way into the real world too.
All to say, there’s electronics stuff you can do in an office, in a lab, or in the middle of forests. Whatever you pick won’t be a bad choice, you’ll evolve over the years to find the thing you’re both good at and actually like doing. Good luck to you!
thanks!
No longer a teen, but I remember liking the information laid out by https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
It broke down stats around career prospects, the education requirements to get into that career, the outlook of future job prospects in that career, etc. I didn’t really care too much about what job I worked, just that I had one, and then I could at least enjoy my life outside of it comfortably. I found a few that seemed interesting to me and worked to those. I think having it all laid out for them would be helpful for them to make their own informed decisions.
I’ve also used this very data to justify a raise.
There are no teenagers on Lemmy the technological barrier to entry is way too high.
Are you joking or not? If you’re not joking, I think you may be projecting your own stupidity at that age onto everyone else. Teenagers are perfectly capable of signing up for an account on a social media website… In fact, they’re kind of notorious for doing so.
Try explaining a teenager what federation is and which server they should select. Find out how long they last
i don’t think there are many teenagers who wouldn’t be able to understand “people on these websites can all talk to each other unless the individual site admins decide they don’t want to”
plus there are a lot of nerdy teenagers who would understand the un-simplified version perfectly fineYou can explain it to them. The question is about learning it voluntarily.
Also it’s way more than talking to eachother. Each instance is basically mirroring all other federated instances and syncing with the other instances all the time.
I understood what federation was just fine when I was a teenager. Again, projecting your own stupidity. Teenagers are perfectly capable of using email.
