The most important decision is your first job after college usually sets the tone for the rest of your life career. If your first job is outside of your specialist, then it is unlikely that you’ll ever get back into it. For example, if you are keen on a career in research on-farm irrigation engineering, make sure that you get a suitable first job without compromising too much.
Regarding the five years out of school, I would suggest not thinking too much about money and instead focus on gaining and developing in-demand skills and on getting exciting research projects in which you learn loads of things that are important to your specific research field of irrigation engineering. This will help you learn the ropes of professional research. You should also make it a priority to get a job that will give you opportunities to be mentored by senior irrigation engineers.
If you are sure you want to get into R&D and/or advanced irrigation engineering, then plan to get a graduate degree right after your undergrad. A graduate degree is a minimum requirement for a serious researcher job, so save yourself time and get that before you start. You can instead do internships during some summers.
As a junior irrigation engineer, prioritize professional growth and learning over money. The money will come later on if you do this part right.
Could you tell us your experience about even it is a different field?
I agree with @Atef Nassar, first job does matter after graduation. I also encourage young researchers to keep some time to learn updated tools and methods to enhance their productivity in respective fields
Learn skills and statistics, record data truthfully and use guidance of senior researchers.
Be sure you love what you do and believe in your research. Try to go deeply into the theory to understand well pros and cons. Then, document the progress day-by-day. Of course, try to connect with somebody really relevant on the topic and ask for feedback. The objective should be to reach a top level on your topic or at least to be among the best.
To get professional experience first, to study later. Otherwise, he or she will be a "professional student" .
Develop your skills first and this will vouch to bring money to you as the competition to obtain the job is based on the best skill.
What advice would you give junior scientific researchers early in their careers? To avoid wasting time. Murillo De Oliveira Dias made a good point.
Dear Dr Atef Nassar . There are several very important factors:
1. Time management
2. Reading a lot on the research topic .
3. Identifying many important tools and techniques in the research field .
4. Continuous communication with workers in the field and getting answers to the specific questions.
5. Repeat attempts in the research project and do not despair until the desired goal is achieved . Thank you.
Please be patient, focus on research, listen to your advisor and work hard.
Dear Pr Atef Nassar,
My advices would be to always stay up to date to follow scientific progress and to increase English skills since it is the language of science that most researchers recognize themselves.
Best wishes,
Sabri
Please note that I have two research papers that are emails between me and my masters adviser. By that I mean I send to him my questions and ideas and he send to me the reply.
I think this is a good way to do research.
You can read and let me know
1 Construction of The Sampled Signal Up To Any Frequency While Keeping The Sampling Rate Fixed
2 Time and Space
Given the extreme variety of "budded" degrees over the last twenty years, as well as the end of the markets as such, it is practically impossible to provide useful information to a recent graduate for entry into the "world of work".
Perhap reading/studying about your topic(s), being patient and dedicated to your tasks as Michael Issigonis mentioned.
you need knowns in scientific experiment planning
you need excellent scientific manager / mentor
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