{"id":16,"date":"2023-12-05T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T07:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/?p=16"},"modified":"2023-12-05T07:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T07:29:25","slug":"what-to-do-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/2023\/12\/05\/what-to-do-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do&#8230;what to do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The thing I&#8217;ve heard most frequently since I started this degree is about how there are no entry-level jobs, despite the huge demand for engineers. The consensus is that the demand is mostly for experienced engineers, and that internships and entry-level positions are few and far between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of actual &#8220;doing&#8221; (as in my position, as opposed to the company\/industry), my gift and curse is that I enjoy a lot of things. There&#8217;s a wide array of roles that I would be satisfied doing &#8211; data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, software engineer, software developer, cybersecurity engineer, and on and on. The thing I care about mainly is the company and industry that I&#8217;d be working in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, I just want to feel that what I&#8217;m doing is purposeful. I have no plans for a family, nor are there any people that currently depend on me for anything, so I want to find fulfillment in my career. I haven&#8217;t started a serious job search yet, but I probably will start poking around more during this winter break. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing I&#8217;ve heard most frequently since I started this degree is about how there are no entry-level jobs, despite the huge demand for engineers. The consensus is that the demand is mostly for experienced engineers, and that internships and entry-level positions are few and far between. In terms of actual &#8220;doing&#8221; (as in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/moguetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}