TABLE OF CONTENTS The party's over! It's time to get serious and start your career!
While you were studying engineering, you might have noticed that the business and liberal arts students had much more time to party than you had. You worked hard because studying engineering was difficult and demanding. So it's not really fair for anyone to tell you that "the party's over." But it is fair to say that when you start work, most likely you will work even harder than you did in school. Even if your work is not as intense as college, you will find the challenges, environment, and tasks to be quite different, which can sometimes make the transition difficult.
Please don't get the impression that you are going from the frying pan into the fire. The transition will be a great experience. The world of engineering work is characterized by a fast pace and very rapid change. In fact, we live in times of accelerating changes. That makes your new position exciting and challenging. Often, our news media teach us to focus on the negatives of our world. But our world is filled with good things; we live in wonderful and challenging times. Rapid technology advances...
