Doing a CS masters while working full time as an electrical engineer.
I dont do much at work but the management wants me to come to office so im getting pretty sleep deprived as im doing homework till past midnight everyday.
I really just want to quit but i get paid ok (much lower than if i just went software) and i need health insurance.
i have like a big cash cushion but i cant bring myself to quitting. ive slept full hours in the last 3 days...
>what is online university
Why don't you do homework during work hours
LOLLOL you actually want to move from embedded into the other shit?
Why would you do that to yourself
Fuck getting a comp sci masters
Dude what are you thinking
Holy shit man reevaluate what codebases you will work on
You have to be insane
All i do rn is PLC and DCS. its fucking boring and complicated since everything is ancient.
Also minimal resources online.
i like java,c++
Why can’t you just get a software dev job with your EE degree? Why do you have to do a masters?
im a chemical engineer that switched to "automation engineer" at a large pharma company. everyone else in the dept is electrical and chemical..
tbh i probably can get a software job rn with what i know but i already started my masters.
My school im doing it at is pretty elite and my real goal was to segway into wall street using school name. ive interviewed at a top quant firm for an internship but i didnt do any leetcode practice so wasnt prepared. couldve aced the coding interview if i remembered basic c++ syntax.
how do you test that the code you wrote for hardware works properly? in the web-shit world we have unit-tests and integration tests that run when we run our code against a CI/CD pipeline
you go in the field and test it. line by line.
then do tons of documentation verifying it works.
a lot of isnt even writing code. its making one device talk to another. and they all speak different languages. in the CS world if you remember taking a class called systems where you learned about circuits and registers etc. my job is kind of more related to that except its also a bit of project management and babysitting vendors.
that sounds like a nightmare. I feel like any embedded dev could easily switch to web shit for higher pay and a significantly easier experience. I do not understand why more embedded folks dont do this. I did take a systems class but I have never applied it in my work and thankfully so
the job itself isnt stressful because boomers i work with seem to know their shit.
just very busy work
Refinery?
pharma
have like a year left.
im doing a 2 year masters. i could make go slower but i dont want to. school is exciting for me. my job isnt. i dont want to be doing this same job for 10 years to get to 200k+.
i know the feel, but i just work part time
nigga embedded is the dog of tech.
I'm getting paid like a pajeet to implement as an embedded systems engineer
>And I need health insurance
Have you considered not having an ailment?
Maybe you are fat, you should lose some weight
Homework? I procrastinate til 5 minutes before class started sometimes and challenged myself to see if I could finish it in time.
im pretty fit with low bodyfat. i just dont want to get israeliteed by the hosptial for breaking an arm.
ive seriously considered quitting since i have enough cash to just buy health insurance. they take it out of my paycheck anyway...
I worked full time and studied to engineering degree for two and a half years.
I could not find job from my engineering field, but then i took time off for school (6months) starting from jan 1.
I applied for one job this year in late jan and got the job.
For me it worked to just go for it. I think my applications were bad before and i when i applied for this new job i actually wanted it and they saw it.
Just quit shitty job. Yolo
yeah strongly considering it but my current manager is a really nice guy who gave me a huge raise and put me at higher end of the band for my level when i got promoted. I don't want to screw him over because we are already stretched thin. even if im just the guy responding to day to day shit, its important.
what year are you in?
i worked 5 TA’s and a part-time job while doing my MA. What kept me going was knowing that I only had two years of this hell to worry about it and then I’d be instantly more attractive to my clients over undergrads in the same field.
nagger, what the fuck are you doing? Just put all your money in crypto and chill for 3 years, writing random code for your projects. What's the point of wageslaving if there's hundreds of countries where you can live on $100/mo
Holy shit, no wonder you retards become alcoholics, life is literally too hard for you to figure out. Brainwashed cattle.
never tasted alcohol.
think about fucking off to thailand or somewhere but im still too young. a lot can change in 40 years.
i also think all crypto is a scam
Too young for what?
>all crypto is a scam
As opposed to a totally honest currency constantly being printed out of thin air?
>Doing a CS masters while working full time as an electrical engineer.
whats the point of you doing the CS masters when you already have a job, like literally what employment are you hoping to get with that?
i make 110k rn after working for almost 4 years. i want to double that.
CS kids are doing 200k with <1 year.
>CS kids are doing 200k with <1 year
only the genius turboautists doing work in AI and other technagger FOTM fields
>he actually fell for the CS salary memes
OH NO NO NO NOOOOOO.