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Yesterday I gave a talk in the college where I studied the Bachelor and the Master degrees and where I am now starting the PhD. What stuck me most is the lack of interest from my bosses in this informative talk. After tell them about the invitation received from the university the answer wasn't further that "oh, that's nice".

But what ever. I take this opportunity to present to the students how an engineer can work in a place that often is not in the main path of jobs that one have.

Starting with how I got this job, and explaining that 6 months before start working here I didn't know what a synchrotron was, I have explained the heterogeneous different jobs I had in the past. I've put the accent in the English, because it has been told to me that many students didn't evaluate as necessary to have a good English level. Well, is not a thing to have a absolutely very nice level, but starting with a communicative sufficient level (and with practice the rest will come).

I have explained to them, with some youtube videos, has is not a synchrotron. Why start the other way around? The idea behind this was more a way to list other kind of scientific facilities where an engineer have job opportunities and sometimes are not in the main target because is not known.

Two basic ideas can summarize my talk: internationalization and search for jobs in more unexpected fields. And an important thing in the job search it to apply to those offers. Without this step it's impossible to get it!