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What one piece of advice do you wish you had known at the start of your career?

Kathryn Bain

Reposted from IET Professional Development



I'm currently working on a blog around starting out in careers in engineering - it got me thinking about the lessons learned from others (perhaps because I spend a lot of my time working with our volunteer mentors).


What one piece of advice do you wish you had known at the start of your career that you know now?


Or, if you're starting out in your career right now, what is the one thing you want to learn more about (and hopefully have planned as part of your CPD)?


Please share your experiences or advice below:


Kathryn Bain, IPD and Mentoring Service Manager, The Institution of Engineering & Technology, (IET Staff)

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    Karla,


    You remind me of the big difference between studying mathematics at
    school and then at university. School mathematics was in a set of
    eight with lots of drilling, ("You haven't time to do it from first
    principles, you have to choose ,[and know!], the best method and
    apply it!"). University was in a faculty group of 200,
    take-it-or-leave it. A lot of it I had done before so it was very
    easy to switch off and with no drilling it was easy to forget.


    A break could have been good though, particularly if it gives one a
    purpose for studying. My father was a vehicle engineer and my mum
    used to warn us, "Do you want to work on the track (assembly
    line)?" That might have had more meaning to us if we had had the
    experience!
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    Karla,


    You remind me of the big difference between studying mathematics at
    school and then at university. School mathematics was in a set of
    eight with lots of drilling, ("You haven't time to do it from first
    principles, you have to choose ,[and know!], the best method and
    apply it!"). University was in a faculty group of 200,
    take-it-or-leave it. A lot of it I had done before so it was very
    easy to switch off and with no drilling it was easy to forget.


    A break could have been good though, particularly if it gives one a
    purpose for studying. My father was a vehicle engineer and my mum
    used to warn us, "Do you want to work on the track (assembly
    line)?" That might have had more meaning to us if we had had the
    experience!
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