For July 30th.
Describe your internship experience. I have been able to work with engineers and non engineers at GE aviation work as an engineer, machinist, environmental health and safety, human resource, planning and have really been able to learn how to better engage my students in preparing to work in not only companies like GE aviation but almost all the jobs in our area.
What was the most interesting moment? Learning from each of the workers at GE their personal road map to their career. Each person coming to the same job from wildly different approaches, showing that anyone that is driven to learn and succeed can.
What was your biggest challenge? My biggest challenge was either not being able to actually touch a lot of the machinery, which was like being told not to touch the shiny red button, Ren and Stimpy reference for readers to old or young. After that, it was scheduling times to meet with everyone and finding the right questions to ask to get each worker to open up their inner workings as they worked their job.
What is your biggest takeaway? No matter what your interests are, or your goals there are jobs for you in most companies. You might look at an aviation facility and think there are no jobs for you there, but they have jobs for artists, business, mechanics, machinists, thinkers and hard workers, not just engineers.
How has your knowledge of career opportunities changed as a result of your internship experience? I think I can see better how each company may have more jobs than you would think of by just looking at their main functions.