In my experience, very rarely is someone lucky enough to go from school right into the R&D phase.
Generally, but not exclusively, one has to work their way into that role.
I'd definitely recommend joning the RCA because there are a lot of good contacts and resources there.
You really want to have a decent pratical background experience before thinking about anything big time, but smaller scale opportunities might present themselves. Especially if you're a lucky person.
I've found the most rewarding R&D roles are usually working for a company with a good healthy R&D budget, where you are only limited by your imagination and not budgets.
Just my two cents.
Cat Man |