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[Alan A]

VA Techs a good school. Wouldn’t have been my first choice for aero, but it’s up there for mechanical.

Internships are a sales gig. You are selling yourself and most engineers aren’t good at it.
All the uni can do is get the employers to send someone to accept paperwork in person.

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by BK911

The HVAC industry is among the easiest ME fields, and generally the least paying.
Worked ~14 years in it culminating with commissioning, which is among the highest paying HVAC ME jobs.
Lots of jobs out there and not too hard to rise to the top; he'd be competing with the 2.0 GPAs.

What’s funny is we just had the boiler/hvac guy here last week.

He was complaining that they can’t hire - the exact quote was “these kids can be earnings six figures in 18 months out of high school but we still can’t get anyone”.

Given the only thing around the house I pick up a phone for is hvac I thought it was interesting. Now I’m wondering on the ROI of an ME in that field vs a guy that fixes and installs them.

[BK911]

Any internship is better than no internship.
Apply everywhere and take the best one.

[LWJ]

Capt Ahab.

I LOVE your son’s story. I have a son who is looking for work and have told him similar techniques 100’s of times. He argues with me.

I did this 20 some years prior. Had 4 job offers in 2 weeks.

[berettafan]

Happy to report persistence and creating opportunities as advised here has paid off. The boy landed an internship with a local company that will have him doing a good bit of solid works stuff. And this internship was not listed!

Definitely a life lesson in hustle! He’s very excited about the company and the work he’ll be doing. Very satisfying to see that. Thanks all for the encouragement.

[fanaudical]

Thanks for the update!

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Great news, always believed if you don't ask, you don't get

Your son got by asking

What type of business/products will your son be involved in?

[berettafan]

Best understanding I have at the moment is materials handling equipment. Sounds like every system this company installs/sells is custom and massive. Support structures, piping designs, all kinds of stuff. Heavy on the design/modify with some manual updating as the grunt work (their words). They do their own manufacturing on some things and it just sounds like a ton of great experience in the trenches.

Cold called looking for an internship and got a ‘you know what that might be something we need, send a resume’. Then followed up with a second call and that generated an email from the owner. Drove 8 hours each way for the in person interview.

Best part was owner tells him he scored the interview because he followed up.