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Chemical/Process Engineer with a PE and significant electrical engineering course work. I am hoping to start working towards a masters in electrical once edx rolls one out - https://www.edx.org/masters/electrical-engineering
I do not .... yet. That is one of my big motivations for asking on the world form as well as a pen pal site I am on. I tried learning Russian just for fun and its super hard so if I am going to have to actually do technical work in a forign language I want to figure out what I need to speak now as it will take me a few years to get there.
I am thinking German and we have a family member who speaks it fluently so that would be help alot but while Germany is big into mechanical engineering I am not sure how into chemical and/or electrical they are.
I really dont want to scour job ads in forign languages I am hoping I can eventually find a mentor or multiple mentors that can get me the straight dope on what is going on world wide (such as business owners in places like Germany or Norway, etc) who can say yea your skills are great just learn the language and we can set you up.
OR your skills are ok, etc. But im not going to learn a language if the region does not value what I can bring to the table. Whats the point so I can travel there one day on my non existent funds lol.
You do realise you would have to do more than just learn the language? You would have to learn it at a competent professional level and probably pass exams to be accredited to practice in somewhere like Germany. In Europe you are competing with the population who are very often multi lingual from a young age.
I suspect there are quite a lot of opportunities here in Australia but many are in very remote locations. And remote here is more remote than almost anywhere on the planet.
I am thinking German and we have a family member who speaks it fluently so that would be help alot but while Germany is big into mechanical engineering I am not sure how into chemical and/or electrical they are.
I am not an expert on the subject, but I am pretty sure chemical engineering is huge in Germany.
You do realise you would have to do more than just learn the language? You would have to learn it at a competent professional level and probably pass exams to be accredited to practice in somewhere like Germany. In Europe you are competing with the population who are very often multi lingual from a young age.
I suspect there are quite a lot of opportunities here in Australia but many are in very remote locations. And remote here is more remote than almost anywhere on the planet.
I have until I run out of time. Assuming I accomplished the above are places like Germany awash with jobs or is it the same brutal cut throat competition as the USA?
I thought about that, so hot though. I would have to do some kind of rotation as my wife won’t want to move there
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