how to stop laziness

chooseaburner · 2017-05-17T18:56:04+00:00

If you want to do it, you will do it. You made a correct assessment that most homework in high school constitutes busy work that, without it being mandatory, a good half of your class would have failed. The only downside to this is that you most likely did not take AP courses and did not get a shiny 4.0 GPA, the lack of which means that you lost out on a ton of free money between being able to graduate sooner and qualifying for grants and scholarships in college.

The difference between the kid who applies himself in high school- and I mean this in the most remote sense; I got a buddy who was a complete chucklefuck till Junior year, took the AP courses, got into a nicer college, graduated after three years and got a $60,000 job fresh out of college- and one that didn't can be the difference of a decade. Were I to drop everything and try and get the kind of job he did I'd have to leverage my experience and then scoop up some certs.

Your problem is that you, like most middle class Americans- I'm hazarding a guess since aerospace engineering would be an even worse choice in any other country- you've probably never really had to struggle for anything. It was all handed to you, or it was taken care of for you. The net result is that you hit college completely unprepared. Public schools do a shit job of getting you ready, and what's more, you don't actually know how to behave like a student. You've been taking shitty certification courses so the government can tell itself it gave you enough rope for you to hang yourself with it.

If you really want to be an aerospace engineer you don't really need anything else. That on it's own will fuel you to do everything you can to be on the far edge of your class curve. In practical terms? I'd say go into engineering, not aerospace engineering. The problem with aerospace engineering is that while it can pay well, there's only so many companies, and between the likes of Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, Lockheed, Airbus, and co, you're not looking at a lot of radical growth. Which is a nice way of saying that for every one of you, there's probably two people with at least a decade in the industry and maybe want to work for someone else.

But the real problem is that any time you try to apply for something outside the aerospace industry everyone will look at your resume and assume you're a phone call away from putting two weeks in and heading to Seattle. If you already have a background in engineering that has much broader applications, and it isn't as though that can't feed back into an aerospace job. Many companies- I know Boeing does this- will actually pay for your education if you agree to work for them for X years applying that knowledge.

iwan73 · 2017-05-17T18:33:26+00:00

There's a whole bunch of stuff about this on the main sub and in the sidebar and whatnot. Just do a little looking

Title	how to stop laziness
Author	spliffgang
Upvotes	1
Comments	4
Date	May 17, 2017 6:31 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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