Sources of inspiration and advice

Feeling lost a little bit regarding your career? Got to a stage where you start wondering what are you doing wrong or how to do things right as to job applications  ? Need some help and you feel you have nowhere to turn to? Well behold, there is the internet! Either looking for advice or inspiration there are quite a few sources you can turn to, some of them will be summariseed in this post. There is no reason to feel any sort of awkwardeness because you feel lost . People can feel lost and look for guidance for plenty of reasons. In a free movement era within the EU borders and mutual agreements between countries to exchange technology and knowledge , working or studying to another part of the world, that is full of different rules is quite common . So you got some homework to do!

  For example when exhausted from countless job applications in academia check at the video below, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vzZMAXyXM , looking for inspirational people, http://vimeo.com/86537339 and http://www.engc.org.uk/case-studies-ceng.aspx, looking for career advice in the industry http://vimeo.com/87366292 or just to lift your spirit and feel proud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWTVCkvQzY8&feature=youtu.be and https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k-7B_YfHWXQ.

Of the most useful advice I have been exposed to is to do a reality check , a lot of good advice is thrown in these videos and articles but try to filter them and see what is truly applicable to you. If you are involved in the academia at an early stage , http://www.vitae.ac.uk/ a career development advisory board for researchers is also a good start. Most of engineers and researchers tend to work in close groups , where everybody is highly qualified , often forgetting the significance or importance of their own achievements, it is quite easy to get disheartened. Therefore add a bit for humour in your life! Keep calm and engineering on!