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I’ve wanted to go to college for a long time because I want to succeed in my life with a good job. I
really want to get great pay or at least enough pay to support the family I have now, and the family I
would like to have later. The job I want should be interesting to me, this is important in case I am going
to keep the job for the rest of my life. The job that seems interesting to me is in the area of Engineering.
There are many types of engineering careers, but i have an idea of what i want to do now.
The Engineering area that interested me the most is the career of Engineering Technicians. I chose
to research about Engineering because I am very interested in doing math and I would like to work in an
office preferably. Many engineer technicians assist engineers and scientists. That is something that I
would like to do because I am not a managing type of person. I like keeping records and doing
something for someone else like a secretary, and engineer technicians are a little like that except that
they do more than that because they participate in the experiments and problem solving too.
If I were an Engineering Technician , I might get to assist in designing work , often using computer-
aided equipment. I’ve had experience with designing on my own except I didn’t design electrical
equipment or any machines. I have designed clothes on my own, but I won’t do that in Engineering
careers. Engineering technicians get to collect data and calculate or record the results in experiments and
projects which I am very interested in doing because I like keeping records and collecting data.
Engineering technicians have a job in each certain area of Engineering, which means that I have to pick
one of many types of Engineering to be the technician.
Engineering technicians work for about 40 hours a week, but sometimes they work for long stressful
hours. I would like to have that 40-hour schedule though. If it were a 5- day work week, that would
mean that I would work about 8 hours a day. To me that would be a good schedule because it would be
about the same schedule as when I go to school. Most engineering technicians work these hours in
laboratories, offices, manufacturing plants, industrial plants, or construction sites. Since I am not much
of an outdoor person, I would like to be working inside.
There are a few engineering technician jobs that may possibly qualify you without formal training.
The problem is that most employers prefer to hire someone that has at least a 2-year associate degree in [next page]