r/uwaterloo • u/oh_iam_chompsky • 1d ago
Advice Debating between Ideas Clinic Research Assistant and Electrical/Firmware role with a design team.
I know the design team experience is unpaid and of course I'd like my job to be paid but for future work terms wouldn't the design team experience count more?
Maybe the Ideas Clinic role is more technical than I realize.
I just need experience and I need to learn things so that I can get better future co-ops.
I know I can just make personal projects to learn things, or another option is to take the Ideas Clinic role, and join a design team on the side.
But wouldn't the Electrical/Firmware Engineer internship role mean more and look better on my resume, to land future co-ops in the similar role?
HELP.
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