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>>6611
As said in >>6612
>I say keep your nose to the grindstone, it will pay off in two or three more years.
You ever go hiking, and decide to take a break? You sit down for a minute or two to take a rest, and when you go to get back up, your legs feel much more stiff and tired than when you sat down?
Engineering school is kind of like that. Ya, it can be shitty and tiring at times, but if you take a break too early you might just not come back, and if you do, it will be that much harder to get up to speed again.
If your engineering program has work terms built in to it, take them, but at an an accredited engineering firm doing engineering work, or with a professor doing research. Don't settle for less; it will be a waste of your time. I don't know if they have an equivalent to a P.Eng certification in the 'States, but if they do; time spent on a work term might count towards getting it.
Another reason to hold off until you can get an engineering job on a work term is that employers are going to look at your past work experience with other engineering firms. You might be the best goddamn appliance installer to have ever existed, but they wont care. Depending on your area and how the local economy is doing, you are going to need what ever advantage you can get over fellow classmates (and those from other schools) to get that post graduation job.
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For the record, I too am an engineering student, studying materials engineering.
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