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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E.g. in semiconductor field: it really is hard to learn about MatSci on your own and just go hard at it. It helps also to have a lab, so you don't have to buy fancy equipment yourself. 

That being said, a few semiconductor PhD folks that I know, are now doing something completely unrelated lmao so there is that

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

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

That is a great point - yes the passion and intellectual camaraderie is usually great too, if you can find it - more so the higher levels I presume, and just nice to share that in general with others

The closest I’ve seen that is also R&D or  research organizations - also has better pay than PhDs

Having to buy fancy equipment is a good proxy to decide whether or not to go to university. And the decision to get some 🧯 at your private workshop. Wafer handling at home is less desirable than a 3D printer.

Yet a great aspect of uni is being surrounded by passionate people, when possible.