<p>What is life like as an aerospace engineer? Is it generally exciting and generally monotonous? Going into the workforce, how hard would it be to get a job on the space side of things perhaps working for one of these new private space companies? Do most just work on gas turbines or something else not as interesting?</p>
<p>I'm considering my major situation right now and I'm trying to get as much information as possible.</p>
<p>I’ve got an uncle at Boeing. He describes it as very Dilbert/Office Space-like. Says he works in a cubicle, mostly checks emails, does paperwork, “MS Excel engineering”, some CAD stuff, lots of meetings, lots of dealing with MBA-types.</p>
<p>It does sound rather monotonous to be honest with you. Definitely not like the vibrant young college-like vibe you get when you hear about, for example, working at Google. But I wouldn’t want to work there either :P</p>
<p>Dunno anything about space jobs.</p>