The career of EE questions

[CommPony]

           Hello everyone! I come to these forums a lover of electronics and the EEVBlog. But my first post is not going to be anything super fun related to electronics . Currently as a project to help me understand more of the career and what it can offer me I have been tasked with asking multiple people about a career I am interested in. As I sit i know nobody in the field of electronics engineering so I come here to ask a few questions on the job of being an EE.

1.What is your official job title?

2.Do you enjoy your career?

3.What do you like most about your career?

4.How many jobs have you had to get to your current career?

5.Do you feel you have accomplished your current goals?

6. What kind of education is needed for this career?

7.What are your typical hours?

8.What is a typical day like in this career?

9.Could you give a typical earning range for a year?

10.How dose your career influence your family life or other roles you have taken on?

11.Is there anything you would have done differently for reaching your career goal?

12.Would you recommend EE to someone interested in the field of electronics?

13.Do you have fun?

14.Why did you get into electronics?
   
          Any feed back will be very appreciated.

[eas]

I hope you've had some private responses.

If not though, it might help if you actually said more about yourself and your own interest in electronics (and why we shouldn't view this as a cynical ruse to extract information from people for something other than your stated purpose)

That, and find a way to cut the # of questions down to, say 3 to 5.

Also, some people might find it more inviting to answer all your questions if it was done on a phone/skype call, or a chat, or something more interactive.

As for me, well, I'm not an electronics professional...

[kc3ase]

           Hello everyone! I come to these forums a lover of electronics and the EEVBlog. But my first post is not going to be anything super fun related to electronics . Currently as a project to help me understand more of the career and what it can offer me I have been tasked with asking multiple people about a career I am interested in. As I sit i know nobody in the field of electronics engineering so I come here to ask a few questions on the job of being an EE.

1.What is your official job title?
Project Engineer
2.Do you enjoy your career?
The majority of the time.
3.What do you like most about your career?
The people I work with and the things we do.
4.How many jobs have you had to get to your current career?
5
5.Do you feel you have accomplished your current goals?
More than I dreamed.
6. What kind of education is needed for this career?
None, and this is still true if you work very hard.
7.What are your typical hours?
40-80 hours per week.
8.What is a typical day like in this career?
Put out the current fire. Work on the next project. Learn something new.
9.Could you give a typical earning range for a year?
$75k $US
10.How dose your career influence your family life or other roles you have taken on?
I had to work very hard to get here and some things took the back burner for quite some time including family. This has been coming back the last few years.
11.Is there anything you would have done differently for reaching your career goal?
Not at all.
12.Would you recommend EE to someone interested in the field of electronics?
My field is actually not EE it's SE (software), with Mechanical and Physics
13.Do you have fun?
Every day something is funny at work.
14.Why did you get into electronics?
 It's where I started off. But for me I took off with computers and haven't stopped. 
          Any feed back will be very appreciated.

[Spikee]

I'm not an "official" Engineer yet but I'll still answer the questions:

           Hello everyone! I come to these forums a lover of electronics and the EEVBlog. But my first post is not going to be anything super fun related to electronics . Currently as a project to help me understand more of the career and what it can offer me I have been tasked with asking multiple people about a career I am interested in. As I sit i know nobody in the field of electronics engineering so I come here to ask a few questions on the job of being an EE.

1.What is your official job title?
Business owner / EE consultant / EE / Product Design Engineer / Firmware Engineer ...

2.Do you enjoy your career?
This is my hobby, so yes. I just like Engineering, does not matter if it is mechanical, electrical or software.

3.What do you like most about your career?
Interesting jobs, meeting a-like people on- and offline (EE ppl know what I mean)

4.How many jobs have you had to get to your current career?
If you count the small ones about 5

5.Do you feel you have accomplished your current goals?
I have designed multiple products / prototypes and ppl seem to be happy with the quality that I provide. So that is good I guess.
The next goal is to start a business together with a friend when I'm done with the uni stuff. So that is still on the list.

6. What kind of education is needed for this career?
None , just a portfolio
But what Uni gives you is time to expand your horizon and network.
But I would not pay 30K+ a year to study (pretty much free here until this year).

On the other side Uni in USA is one big party and really easy ... so hard choise 

Goooo Rutgers! (NJ)

7.What are your typical hours?
Whenever I want

8.What is a typical day like in this career?
Wake up , looking at reddit , EEweb , EDN , hackaday , eevblog and youtube for a bit. 
Determine what you have to do today. Do It ...

9.Could you give a typical earning range for a year?
Really depends on how much hours you work * your hourly rate

10.How *does your career influence your family life or other roles you have taken on?
not really

11.Is there anything you would have done differently for reaching your career goal?
Life happens, eventually you will end up somewhere. I am a technical person but I also know how money works (stocks etc..). From a young age I knew that I could be whatever I wanted.
And could earn large amounts of money if aspired to. But... I see money as something to buy cool stuff with. If I want more money, I'll just earn more.

When I was young I took apart kinda everything, most of it was broken afterwards. When I was a bit older and got me a Yamaha aerox 50cc scooter.
Within a week I started to make It go faster. Two weeks later I had a 70CC racing cylinder and piston going up to 18000 rpm and 120 KM/h+ wider vario ...

I have always been some kind of entrepreneur , even when I was young I came up with great business ideas of which the majority already existed but I did not know of.
Mowing lawns, doing gardening and delivering papers were one of the first.


12.Would you recommend EE to someone interested in the field of electronics?
Life is short, do what you like. Money is just a tool, not a life goal.

13.Do you have fun?
I can do whatever I want ... (song)
If you go work for a boss than it can really depend. In that case have Fuck-You money (TheAmphour, Dave).
Than you can have your freedom if needed.

14.Why did you get into electronics?
In high school I did electrical / industrial electrical work because wood is to soft (woodworking career) and metal is too hard (metalworking career) so.. that left Electricity  .

In that time I was kinda looking at electronics (arduino and the like) but I was not in the hobby yet (~16-17 years old) that came after I graduated for Industrial electrician (Siemens S7 , HMI , VFD ...).
I got Into a Embedded Systems Engineering Uni education. Than the hobby / interest really started. After about 1-2 years I was bored of Uni. because it way to easy. At that time I really got into the hobby.

Same as I wrote above. I just like Engineering stuff whatever it is. Electronics just seems to be the thing that I like the most.
As you can make (complicated) stuff happen with the stupid circuit board and firmware what you designed.