Are you after a hug?

Alright lurkers, I need some major confidence building. I'm trying to sort myself out with a job over summer - my first job in engineering industry. Now, I have a major bad habit of underselling myself, but I really don't feel like I know much at all I'm about to send off a CV and covering letter to the closest thing I have to a contact in the industry, but I'm not feeling good about this at all. I'm scared that nothing will come together and I wont get a job at all, and I'm scared that if I do get a job all my flaws and failings will be brutally and clearly exposed. I'm asking these people to give me upwards of ?300/week, with absolutely no confidence that I can do a job for them

Believe in yourself? I'm sure you'll do fine.

Sent, done, gone, bugger all I can do about it for now. Fingers crossed...

Good luck man. :thumbsup:

The most important characteristic for an employee is interest/enthusiasm. If you genuinely enjoy what you're doing, then pretty much any employer who knows what they're doing will be willing to bear with you while you work on any weak points in your skillset.

You do need to have some idea of what you're doing, but if you have been getting passes in your uni course, you should be fine. There'll be more to learn, but there always is.

Good luck .

Meh. The only time I think I've really genuinely enjoyed myself at uni was in my Mech labs this year - building a kit car, welding a chassis, wiring up pneumatics, machining parts... I need to have stuff in my hands and be doing things. Lectures just bore the [censored] out of me, even if it is an otherwise interesting subject. Your diagrams of turbine entry angles do nothing for me. Give me a scale model of a turbine. Let me hold it in my hands, run water through it, change the blade angle myself and see what happens. That's the way I learn best, and unfortunately not the way my 16th Century university deigns to teach it.

First post eveeeeeeeer in this thread.

Ok, lets see. Well, I really need to learn to log off before going to sleep. I just woke up and realized I've been signed in and lurking on the Community Discussion page for a few hours. And my inbox filled up, so people must have been a bit curious as to what the hell I was doing all that time. :ph34r:

And my inbox is almost always close to being full because I'm a pack rat when it comes to PMs.

Oh, and I might as well vent while I'm here! I had to watch my brothers last night and one of them gave me a pretty hard time. My mom promised to give him something if he was good so he asked me to promise not to tell her, and I said I wouldn't. So I proceed to participate in the epic thread, get some work done and then fall asleep at 9 in the morning. I wake up when he comes down stairs crying "Why'd you tell her!," and of course I say I didn't. Turns out my mom heard him yelling and screaming when I called her looking for my other brother's medicine. And now he thinks I told her, and he's not going to be convinced I didn't. So now my brother pretty much doesn't trust me at all. Greeaaat.

How old is he?

Like 11 but he has mental problems so he's basically 5 in terms of how he acts.

Tell your mom that he didn't do anything and it was the TV.

:slap:

Ugh. Respect, bro. I know how that is.

It's okay Stealthie, you're grow up eventually

Using incorrect grammar is like throwing a bucket of water on any burn. Good try, though

But I did that intentionally. You've known me long enough to know I'm without error or flaw.

i feel like ordering out tonight
but money i have none
i'm too lazy to cook anything
and not eating is no fun

i need a job so bad you know
they're hiring up the street
but the moment i thought of applying i cried
cuz i has social anxiety

my anxiety has become debilitating
it's worse than ever before
i need to take some pills or something
just to walk out the door

my books for school were four seventy-five
it wasn't covered by aid
i had to use my credit card
the debt will never be paid

i was looking in the mirror earlier
as i was brushing my teeth
if i stare at myself for a little too long
it really gives me the creeps

sometimes i feel like i'm the only person
who appreciates modesty
but i wonder if i'd have more friends if i
talked more about mee meee meeeeeeee

Are you ok? Seriously ? Do you have social anxiety disorder? I just did a project on it.

I have to take some TCAP test or something tuesday that I have to write an essay for. Does anyone from Tennessee know what it is?

Always go for the International editions (if you live in the USA or Canada). I got my science textbooks for 1/3rd the price that way. You can find 'em on AbeBooks, Ebay, Half.com, and Amazon (I think). I got mine off ebay, great shipping. Even though my college's bookstore has a buy-back policy for books, I'd still be losing money (compared to just getting the International version) even if I sold it back.

It isn't illegal to purchase and use them, despite the big scary warnings on the front of the text books. Hurrah for legal precedents, the Supreme Court sticks up for the little guy.

:stare:

I went to sleep Saturday thinking the forum was moving slow, checked back in just now and find a thread with over 500 posts! This is what I get for sleeping.

What the hell was this 500 post thread?

See Capitals sig.

Or see the link in my sig, where you can see it in all it's 27-page glory. :dance: