If so, would you mind giving a rundown on what your job is like? I mentioned in a previous post, I am a current radiology student having trouble finding a school that will let me take the technical portion due to vaccine mandates. A teacher told me I have a really good engineering mindset. I previously had considered engineering, but was turned off due to the large amount of desk work engineering requires. He told me biomedical engineering would be more hands-on, plus my health related classes would transfer to it. Is this true?
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I do network engineering, at least that's the best I can explain it, it's not an IT job by any means I couldn't care less about IPs and firewalls, and I've had my hands in everything from trenching in the dirt to electronics manufacture. Part of why I like it is I can get into everything. My brother does mechanical, he worked in a factory for a decade and is some sort of consultant engineer now.
Neither exactly medical, but from my experience one tip I'd give you is a lot of the desk work can be mitigated by taking the initiative to be hands-on. Some engineers try to sit behind a desk too much, because they can. Select jobs that involve more hands-on or just as part of how you do things take the opportunity to be hands-on. It's been a long time since I've had my time micro-managed so if I want to go look/see/feel something to better understand or to better design it, I do it. I know my brother has the same experience, he's probably even more hands on. You may also have the opportunity to pick up projects that will be better served with a hands-on approach, I've done quite a few of those where the situation just requires it. I mean I expect this to be a little different in a medical field, since like the other said lab work, etc. but lab work is still hands on, so...