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Advice neededEngineering career help? Been out of the field too long?
Hi, I have an engineering degree, I graduated before covid and now I have been working in a different field in the meantime.
I would like to get back into engineering but I feel my degree is nearly worthless by now since I haven't used it, it's an oddly specific field, where the stuff I studied pretty much only applies to a small number of employees. If I'd studied something more general like mechanical engineering or civil engineering it would be way easier to apply myself.
I've even considered going back to school. But I don't even know where to begin, i feel so far out of it.
Everytime I start looking for better jobs I just feel a bunch of disdain for myself, for studying something less general in the first place, and also for waiting this long to look for a "good job". I don't have any relevant experience and I don't have any of the qualifications anybody wants, even though I know I am smart enough to do the jobs. I just can't compete with new grads because I'm rusty af now.
Advice appreciated. And thank you for reading.