Have you ever been laid off?

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Maddie, you've done Solidworks drawings, you've helped out in the mechanical threads, you HAVE abilities and skills, we've all seen it! Think about what you have done and what you can do and go from there.

Y'know, I was once offered payment for helping a FIRST team and I turned it down. It seemed like that was money better spent on the students when all along, I could've had a career for myself.

Before moving to Seattle, I was offered two jobs doing mechanical design work -- one with a major FIRST sponsor -- and I turned both of them down. At the time, I was disillusioned with engineering. I loved what I was going in FIRST and hated what I was learning in class and came to equate engineering with school rather than with fun. That was pretty stupid.

I've just come from a meeting my boss set up for me with someone else here at the company that's working on "the next big thing." It was hard to seem interested in the project without showing desperation and I'm not sure how well I did at that.

I'd love for an opportunity to work in a mechanical design environment, but as time goes by, it seems like my work experience and growing skillset have less and less relevance to the things I like doing and I will get shoehorned into doing things that I don't like as much. That, too, is pretty scary.