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Re: Help finding a good career
You guys are bot going to run into the same problem when you get to college. There probably isn't going to be one degree that covers everything you want to do. There are some programs out their that try to cover all aspects of robot (or other product) development (WPI has their new program but I'll get to that later). My advice is to find something you enjoy doing that is a bit more narrow to be your core focus. In my case that was embedded software. Make that your major and then minor, or atleast take classes in other disciplines that will help you develop in your other areas of interest.
Once you graduate you are going to have to look for the right company (or right department at a company). Many of the biggest companies will try to get you to specialize in something, working you on one project or family of projects for the time you are there. You may be better off in a smaller company where you will have a chance to apply your self outside of your job description. That said don't count big companies out, some have the corporate culture to support cross discipline work, others may not push for it at the corporate level but a good manager will let you apply your talents where ever they can benefit the group.
Personally I majored in computer engineering. I got a job doing embedded systems programming and FPGA design. In the first few weeks I was here my manager realized my strengths and interests stretch outside of this area. In the past 15 months since I started what was designed to be a Embedded Systems Programming job I have also done GUI design, Electrical Hardware design, mechanical layout for control boxes, Computer vision, 3d Graphics, and IT Networking support for our field operations. This isn't common in my group, most of the other engineers stick to one thing (i.e. Hardware design or User Interface software) but my manager saw that I had interest in branching out and gives me the opportunity when it arises.
I think other engineers will agree that it is more about the company than the position.
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