So burnt but the economy sucks, don’t know how to pivot?
So I’ve been working as an electrical engineer for about a year and a half now and make like 75-80k, which I’m living pretty comfortably on. The thing is, I just think it’s so boring and all i do is data centers (which are mostly all the same). It’s just constant copying and pasting, im like basically a revit monkey, and i just think about how pointless it is.
Maybe it’s my company, about 10 of the people in my office have quit in an office that used to be like 25 or so. So a good chunk are gone, younger engineers rarely stay and I’m just doing it bc it’s been pretty tolerable until recently, where now I just feel like I hit a brick wall. I’m kind of like a below average employee but do get good feedback at work, I mean I just get stuff done, but lately my motivation is just zero.
I’ve been applying and had a couple interviews, but the only company that seems interested right now is another MEP company. The economy seems bad at the entry level and even at my company the higher ups openly talk about how they can hire fresh graduates as interns just bc they can and they know fresh grads will take anything they can get.
I just feel so stuck and don’t know what to do, I’ve been applying to field engineering positions or I sale technical engineering sales, but haven’t heard back from these positions.
I also don’t know if I just hate working but the overall sentiment on this sub seems to be that everybody just does it for the money and there’s minimal job satisfaction.
I just feel so stuck right now and need to hear how others got out of a situation like mine.