Thread 106582088

I am in my fourth semester of electrical engineering and I am so fucking scared of not getting a job afterwards. I was a NEET for 6 years after high-school, worked at a grocery store on weekends for like just over a year but otherwise I just sat around at home doing nothing.
I came clean with my parents and they are funding my college experience now. I am not really successful (grades are mediocre) and I will graduate a few semesters late. I didn't even apply for an internship because I am just scared of rejection. I am so deathly afraid of not getting a job later, I am almost throwing up at the thought of writing an application and resume.
What do I do here?

Become a femboy camwhore while you still have a bit of youth in you.

>>106582088 (OP)
Daily reminder: By the time a ferral nigger slashes your throat in a subway, your tech job interviewer already forgot what your face looked like.

Good night /g/

If you're white, you've already got much better chances of getting a job than some jeet with top grades.
Companies have jeet fatigue so they'll rather hire some mediocre white guy and hope he can learn on the job rather than entrusting an indian A grader.

>>106582088 (OP)
why are you crying like a girl, get your shit together, faggot

>>106582088 (OP)
What do you mean, anon? I got a job like 6 months after finishing academy and was in similar situation. Just dont stress things out, job market is pretty bad. As for resumes, just take any decent one from internet and use it as referrence. You can activate ms office with massgrave tool, check out /fwt/ thread on /g/.

>>106582088 (OP)
What matters is that you're happy, in the short term and the long term; whatever you do, remember this.

>>106582088 (OP)
>get on autism bux
>sign up for university retard program before you graduate >explain you have aspergers
>pray their alumni job agency will take pity on you and get you a diversity job

>>106582088 (OP)
Honestly, you probably need to get into top physical shape. You're running too close to the edge already in that you give a shit about things you cannot control. You are doing this because you are fucking up the things you *can* control.

I've been there. It's crazy how different it is when you have high blood pressure, shitty sleep, are fat, etc in an interview vs knowing without a doubt you could easily kill them with your bare hands at any moment (not that you would, just you could). Get fit asap, instead of wasting your time, waste your time while walking. Instead of just sitting on your couch, only sit after push ups. This will turn your life around.

>>106582154
I am in top physical shape. I go to the gym 2x a week and run 3x a week. I can deadlift 4pl8s and frequently run 5K and 10K races where I place top 20%. I thankfully worked out a lot when I was a NEET so I was able to build muscle, cardio and excellent VO2 max (lab tested).
My problem is the 6 years resume gap and my anxiety around my future.

>>106582100
Astoundingly delusional.
Thsts why I keep saying, get off 4chan every once in a while.

>>106582088 (OP)
Join the army.

>>106582088 (OP)
>get skinny
>shave your body
>start an onlyfans
>profit

this is the most pathetic post i've seen in a while

>>106582088 (OP)
I don't know what area of EE you are specializing in, but if you can, try bringing PCBs that you have designed and show them to the interviewer. A lot of them like that because it shows that you actually have eperience working on practical projects and aren't just good at parroting the course material.
>NEET for 6 years
How did your parents let you do that? Mine would have kicked me out.

>>106582088 (OP)
A lot of bullshit here from these software types on /g/. Let me start you off on the right foot kid:

Join a project team or lab
>Join a project team or lab
Join a project team or lab
>Join a project team or lab

If you don't know how to do shit it doesn't matter how strong your "fundamentals" are. Honestly, you probably won't even use most of what you learned in classes for months if not years after you get a job. If you know how to design and debug a PCB, operate and characterize RF systems, write non-trivial FPGA code, bring up an embedded system, whatever, you will be ready to do *something* on day 1. Be aware you likely will NOT get this experience from most internships because of the short timelines and lack of real responsibility. It is important you be 100% responsible, and ideally even emotionally invested in, the success or failure of a real electrical system to learn good engineering skills (and, equally important, what not to do).

That's part 1.

PART 2: get at least one internship with a name-brand company, if you can. A lot of companies will probably ignore the experience I mentioned above because that would require actually reading what you did, and also teams/labs are so inconsistent in quality they won't have the context to evaluate you anyways. Having one recognizable company on your resume will help you stand out and is probably what any recruiter will ask you most about. If you can't get this, don't freak out, just realize it may take longer for you to get an interview.

PART 3: You got an interview. congrats. NOW you'll need the EE fundamentals, or at least "interview question fundamentals". Make sure you can easily solve opamp circuits, voltage dividers, simple frequency domain, maybe basic coding questions, RF stuff if you are going RF, etc... There will be stuff other than this, but if you joined a lab or project team (did I mention you should do that?) any other high-level technical questions should be easy.

Good luck out there

the grocery store will hire you full time after you get that degree

>>106582088 (OP)
Can't say, because entire school system and work system in burgerland is one big mental illness. As far as I can tell, you're completely unemployable without university, and barely employable with it, going through a circle of humiliation rituals (certifications, internships, thousand round interviews) to get a shitjob at some soulless corporation in the end. Meanwhile, I finished high school in Czechistan, went straight to work, and after a few random shitjobs (each lasting 1-2 months) landed my first job in IT. I got a national-average salary after three months, and it only went up since, started freelancing after about 4 years, and started my own company after another 3 years. I can't imagine having all this in Burgerstan. Land of the free my ass, more like land of the cucks.

>>106583502
So they like if you have worked for big profitable company's and have their own words as a vouch/review on your website/resume?

>>106582088 (OP)
Do volunteering work, which includes open source work, which never had anything to do with how often you make commits and everything to do with a public written record of you interacting with others in a work-like way, but really any sort of volunteering effort is great. If its between two new grads without any work experience, the one with a reference they personally know that will vouch that they will show up on time, won't half-ass their work, and won't steal shit from the stationary closet is going to get the job.

>>106582088 (OP)
just get an internship and you wont have to worry op, if you dont have an internship and youve graduated then you are going to have aproblem

>>106582088 (OP)
You unironically aren't doing enough if you aren't getting rejected constantly. The only way to get constantly accepted is to either not try or put the bar super low.

>>106582088 (OP)
Unironically ask AI to prop it up. Then filter everything that sounds too much like an AI made it.

>>106585455
>So they like if you have worked for big profitable company's
It will get your resume noticed simply because it's a name the recruiters/reviewers will recognize and could provide a starting point for conversation about your past experience (in a career fair / phone screen). I don't think having a reference from your internships really matters *for other companies*, I have never once in my own experience hiring seen a case where we called the references. However, making a positive impression in your internship will significantly increase your chances of getting re-hired by that company, especially the team you worked for (in some cases, you may even be given a full-time offer on the spot on your last day, contingent on completing your degree of course).

Just remember that there are two pieces to a successful full-time start in this field: having the SKILLS to do the job, and getting PICKED to do the job. Interships will help with the second one, but don't lose sight of the first or you will have a delayed ramp or even flame out when you start working for real.