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How To Work It Natalie & Nicole
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Your career is not a straightforward path with step by step instructions. In this podcast, two recently graduated female engineers starting their careers discuss college and career advice to help fill the gap of not knowing the steps it takes to reach your ambitions. We hope to help incoming and current college students and early career professionals navigate the realm of school or their career by covering topics like ways to earn college credit, what career should I choose, and work life balance. Let’s get through the struggles together and work it out.
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13. Should I Get A Master’s Degree? | Hanna Anderson | M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
In this episode, we interview Hanna Anderson, a current engineering student pursuing a Master's of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Hanna shares with us on how she decided to go to grad school and how her journey has been so far. We go over a lot of good advice on getting through graduate school and how to make sure you get the most out of your experience. If you are thinking about going to grad school after getting your engineering undergrad, listen to this episode to give you some guidance.
1:10 Pursuing a Master’s degree
1:57 Industry vs Graduate school
4:00 Advice for future Master’s students
6:54 Choosing a graduate program
11:05 Negatives during a Master’s degree
12:10 Positives during a Master’s degree
12:36 Mentorship
14:50 Day in a life as a Master’s student
16:00 Undergraduate vs Graduate
20:36 Challenges you face throughout school
26:14 Is it easier to get a job when you have a Master’s degree?
31:10 General advice
32:36 Next steps -
12. Guide To Your First Job Out Of College
In this episode, we reflect back on the first couple years of working full-time straight out of college. Starting a full time job can be scary especially when you do not know what to expect. When you graduate from college and start your job, you think that it is all technical but there is a lot more to it than just the work you do. Through this episode, we go over things we have gone through and learned from our experience so far that would help anybody working a corporate job.
1:00 Identify your stress levels
6:00 Establish goals
9:27 When to speak and when to listen
14:40 Ask questions
18:20 Don’t sweat the small stuff
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11. Living With Roommates
Roommates. A love hate relationship. In this episode, we go over our experiences with having roommates. Our first exposure to living with roommates other than our family was while attending college. We lived with one, seven, and co-ed roommates so we have had quite the experience with living with people. We share our conflicts that we experienced so you can avoid them and tips to making a great living environment when it comes to living with others.
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10. Which Career Makes the Most Money?
Have you ever wondered what career makes the most money? There are many top paying careers out there but what it comes down to is your interests and speciality. We researched top paying careers in various fields to get a scope of the money making careers in different disciplines. In this episode, we discuss our findings and cover careers that require a college degree but also careers that don’t require formal college education. You will learn the average salary for top paying careers and also learn some job titles you might not have heard of in numerous industries.
0:42 Business
5:37 Liberal Arts
7:37 Arts & Design
11:30 Education
14:53 Nursing & Healthcare
18:50 Science
23:55 Engineering
27:50 Jobs that don’t need a degree
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9. Work-Life Balance | Ways to Improve
Work-life balance is maintaining a good ratio between work responsibilities and your personal time for yourself and loved ones. Having this balance is essential to keep yourself from burnout. There are different ways to implement a sustainable balance between work life and personal life. In this episode, we will discuss strategies we personally use to maintain our equilibrium and other examples that may fit your lifestyle better. We have highlighted main areas to focus on to create a work-life balance for yourself.
0:51 Managing your time
6:03 Take time for yourself
10:08 Maintain a social life
12:56 Managing work
14:06 Make time for loved ones
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8. Going To School Out-Of-State | Is It Right For You?
When you are starting to look into schools, one of the decisions to make is going in-state or out-of-state for school. Making this decision can be difficult so we discuss some topics to think about when deciding on if going to school out-of-state is right for you. We both went through the same dilemma and made the decision to attend a school out of state. In this episode, we go over our reasoning behind our decision and topics that we didn’t think about back then but should have considered. We have highlighted some main topics below that are key takeaways.
1:01 - Reasons to go out-of-state
2:42 - Pick the right school for you
5:42 - Fresh start
6:15 - Job opportunities
7:54 - Culture
9:40 - Climate
11:50 - Healthcare/Insurance
13:05 - Ways to save money
15:20 - Homesick
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