Ep 3. How I got here w/ Emma Birbeck: New job during the pandemic and transferring universities; Has your Career gone as planned? and How to ask for a raise with an offer?

To submit your question, email [email protected] In this episode, Daniel interviews Emma Birbeck, E.I.T., a recent college graduate engineer who recently started a new job with a new company, in a new city and industry all during the coronavirus pandemic.  Emma is an Associate Engineer at V&A Consulting Engineers. Emma answers questions like: 1. Tell me about your current role and what your day to day looks like - what kind of projects and what your level of involvement looks like. 2. How did you get here? Walking back from your current role, what was your previous role? 3. How important is it to have an internship as an engineering student looking to work in the industry? 4. Looking back at when you transferred from Trinity to TCU, is there anything that you would’ve done differently? Anything that you didn’t expect or that others considering transferring need to consider or be aware of? 5. How did you get your current job? What was it like finding a job in a new city in the middle of the pandemic? 6. Were there any key decision points that you had to consider in order to reach the point in your career you’re in now? What are they and how have they impacted your career positively, negatively? 7. What do you like most about your job? And then what do you find to be the most challenging aspect of your job? 8. What class from college do you find the most applicable for your current role? 9. How much of what you do at work is things you’ve learned on the job vs. what you’ve learned in college? 10. What about your university prepared you really well for your career and why should someone consider attending that program? What do you think is most important for prospective students to consider when evaluating college engineering programs? 11. What kind of college student were you? Were you that same kind of student in high school? Did your attitude change at all between high school and college/did it transfer/did any academic decisions in high school prevent you from or set you up to achieve in any ways in college and with your career? 12. Any advice for high school age or younger girls considering a career in engineering? 13. How was your experience in college as a female engineering student? And has that changed since entering the workforce? 14. What advice do you have for any students in high school or starting out in college that are looking to going into a career as an engineer? Then, in the second half of the podcast Daniel responds to more career questions from Reddit: 1. Is it likely that working toward a specific area of engineering can be achieved? 2. I received a job offer with a salary way better than mine. How could I ask my current boss to follow this offer so that I stay? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj86alc3a7_A_PibgYpkWFg  Daniel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Trinity University's B.S. in Engineering Science and currently works in Business Development in the Engineering Consulting and Construction Industry.  All views expressed on this podcast are his own and do not reflect the opinions or views of his employer. Music by Maxgotthetracks: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Pclog68AY1ArXm5PiApCX?si=KbqFimdQT6iK3Os2G4Jnkg&utm_source=copy-link --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/engineering-success/support