Engineering

As an Engineer, what has been better for your career advancement/resume building?

A degree from a University

or

Time spent on the job getting experience?

I lack a degree, but spent some time working as an Engineer in semiconductors. It looks great on the resume, but wanting to gauge how valuable it is by itself.

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Generally speaking it though, I've learned the most by doing things, just picking it up, and learning it inside out on my own, if I didn't know it, I picked up a textbook, or tutorials and learned it myself. That's mainly the best way to learn, but it really accelerates it at times when you are at a job imo

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Same. 

The “secret” is learning to love learning. Be curious.

This is incredibly insightful 🙏 

The particular role I filled was heavily mechanical, so I was able to draw on my previous 10+ yrs as an automotive tech to fill the aptitude gap quickly. I definitely learned a ton tho and and it added a huge "gold star" on the resume for lack of better terms.