Guys i need some help with this. I need to know some careers involved with cars. I was thinking of Car Tester and Engineer. However, I cannot find any job descriptions on the Internet. Please help? lol Thanks guys.


Hullio:cool:

Guys i need some help with this. I need to know some careers involved with cars. I was thinking of Car Tester and Engineer. However, I cannot find any job descriptions on the Internet. Please help? lol Thanks guys.


Hullio:cool:

Hullio,
You can't just walk into Nissan, or Car and Driver and say I want to be a 'car tester'. Go to school and get a Mechanical Engineering Degree, join the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) then get into a car manufacturer as a designer and work your way up. I have a mechanical engineering degree, and for my senior project I was on a team of guys who designed and raced a car for the Formula SAE Competition. It was the best fun I've had. Do some research into the different jobs at the Car Manufactuers then talk to a guidance counselor about what path you should take. If you don't have one ask your parents, if they can't help call the company themselves and ask them what you should get a degree in to get the best education about the job that you want.

Crash Test Dummy?

Go to college and get an engineering degree. My buddy got electrical engineering. He's now the guy who develops mass air flow sensors for Siemens automotive. He's worked on the Viper, BMW, Merc, Ford, and the new diesel they are going to put in the Titan. Figure out what aspect of cars appeals to you, then go for a degree that compliments this, preferrably from a tech school like RPI, MIT, VPI, etc. If you like the factory, go for robotics or manufacturing degrees. Mechanical if you like designing parts. Electrical if you like working on the cars computer systems. Aerospace if you like designing the bodies. etc.

Guys i need some help with this. I need to know some careers involved with cars. I was thinking of Car Tester and Engineer. However, I cannot find any job descriptions on the Internet. Please help? lol Thanks guys.


Hullio:cool:

How about car salesman? :D

If you really just want to drive automotive journalist.

Thats what i was gonna suggest and actually the career path that i want to go down. IF you watch Top Gear that can be inspirational, since they make big bucks.

-Son of SQS

Dinan is looking for a West Coast Sales Manager. Sell chips and other performance gear for BMWs.

HowI'm going to write two articles about Electrical Engineer and Car Tester. Do you go to College for both of them? And how long do you have to be in College for? Also, what will be the average salary? Around $40,000 - $100,000 I suppose right? Thanks for the reply's ppl

Hullio

HowI'm going to write two articles about Electrical Engineer and Car Tester. Do you go to College for both of them? And how long do you have to be in College for? Also, what will be the average salary? Around $40,000 - $100,000 I suppose right? Thanks for the reply's ppl

Hullio

LOLOL!!! Wow the kids these days (No offese hullio). Not many jobs are going to start you out at $100K, unless you are a lawyer (top 10% of your class) with a big firm or maybe a surgeon, and they have to do a residency and pay back serious loans most of the time. Better keep your expectations lower like the $40-$50 range for a technical degree if you do well enough in school, but probably lower than that as a technician or a journalist (more like $20-30K).

Which do you enjoy most. Writing or Testing, those two are worlds apart even though you get to drive the car as a journalist. But you have to remember how many of those car driving journalist jobs are out there. Kinda like getting into the NBA, not too many spots available for the people trying to get them. So if that's what you want to do, you have got a ton of research to do and while in school you HAVE to get an internship in the field that you want. That's how you get your foot in the door and get a job offer at the place that you like.

HowI'm going to write two articles about Electrical Engineer and Car Tester. Do you go to College for both of them? And how long do you have to be in College for? Also, what will be the average salary? Around $40,000 - $100,000 I suppose right? Thanks for the reply's ppl

Hullio

Not automotive, but related. I'm hiring Engineering fresh-outs for $60-65K / year, $75-80K for a Masters. Radar design.

Keith

Not automotive, but related. I'm hiring Engineering fresh-outs for $60-65K / year, $75-80K for a Masters. Radar design.

Keith

Well, that's cool, guess times have changed. Depends on the industry I guess, Electical Engineers at my company don't come in making that much. 60-65 is a good start Hullio. If you are good with math and science do the engineering thing, you can always be a writer, but it doesn't work the other way around.