• Question: How does your time as an engineer affect your social life??

    Asked by freddo to Aislinn, Fiona, Nathan, Padraic, Sinead on 2 Feb 2015. This question was also asked by 294beb35.
    • Photo: Padraic Morrissey

      Padraic Morrissey answered on 2 Feb 2015:

      Hey Freddo
      Working as an engineer doesn’t really affect your social life any more than any other job. Although sometimes if a big project is due you might have to work late or weekends, but usually that’s not very often.

      The hours are fairly flexible depending on where you work (I can even work from home some days!) and you get the weekends off. When I was working on my PhD the hours were much longer, so its nice now being able to relax on the weekends without having to think about work!

    • Photo: Sinead Quirke

      Sinead Quirke answered on 2 Feb 2015:

      I have a great social life. I generally work 715am to 1700 monday to friday. As I dont work weekends, work doesn’t my social life.

    • Photo: Nathan Quinlan

      Nathan Quinlan answered on 2 Feb 2015:

      It doesn’t really. Sometimes there are long hours – but I’ve a lot of fun while working hard and making friends at work.

    • Photo: Aislinn Coghlan

      Aislinn Coghlan answered on 2 Feb 2015:

      I’m not going to sugar coat it. When you are studying to become an engineer you social life can be very limited in the last 2 years. It’s like this with most challenging degrees.

      However, now that I am working, I actually have a better work/life balance than a lot of my friends that work in finance or business!

      You make fantastic friends as an engineer because you can work very long hours with your team. So the social side of work can be much better than most.

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