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I was fortunate that just out of college I got a job at a company that made pressure sensor for the engine position indicators for one of the Mars projects. Later when I worked for Huges SBRC I had designed some high speed hybrid for a military project and the space group found out that I new how to miniaturize designs and actually build these hybrids, they asked if I would help them out. Since I had always been interested in the space program, I of course said yes. The service that I provided for them was I had an engineering hybrid lab that I set up. I could take what they had and design and build it without having someone looking over my shoulder. I could design and build things on the fly. There was another hybrid lab at the company but if the paper work wasn’t filled out with a finished design they didn’t want to work on it and if they did take it on it would be put at the bottom of the list, which meant that they would have no idea when they would get there project done.
I would say learn everything that you can in the field of interest you have but don’t be afraid of trying new thing and make sure you know how to build what you design. It makes a big difference when you can bring a finish design to your boss that you build. Some engineers that I have worked with are great engineers but they don’t build or test there own designs. I get more satisfaction knowing that some of the hardware in space I design and built with my own hands.
I have added a picture of one of these hybrid designs to give you an idea of what I was talking about. I did the complete design from the package to the circuit and layout.