A Day in the Life of an Electrical Engineer *in Africa* 👷🏽♀️✨
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2022
- Hi beautiful people! In this video, I show you a glimpse of what life as an electrical engineer can be like and what my 9 - 5 job is like. I explain what engineers really do and show you a bit of the systems we work on. I am a telecommunications engineer and telecommunications is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering, so... same difference 😉.
PS: This vlog was filmed in my second week at my new job.
Here is a work day in my life as an electrical engineer. 🥂
Enjoy!
xx Mutombo.
M U S I C:
Music by ystr - Serene - thmatc.co/?l=BF3879E4
M O R E :
• I am Cameroonian
• Location: Douala, Cameroon
• Camera: iPhone 11
• Editing software: Filmora11 (Wondershare)
M E N T I O N E D:
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Beautiful I love this content. Big up, African women in STEM. I work as an automation engineer in South Africa. The company that you are working for is it a Cameroonian company or a multinational company? Why don't you guys bring laptops to the field and view the same data that is viewed by the people in the office from your dashboards.
Hi CodyBanks! Oh yes, it’s a multinational company. Regarding your last question, that is a bit of a thinker. Your suggestion makes so much sense and some of the field engineers do that, in fact they can even login and open the dashboards on their phones for a high-level view but I’ve thought about it and here’s what I’ll say
1. It will make the time spent on each site twice as long if they did the verification on both ends themselves. Some of these sites are found in remote locations, mountains, villages and the field team sometimes have more than 4 hours to travel each way for one site visit. Cutting that time down is not only more efficient but safer for those on the field.
2. Having a NOC team in the office to check, confirm and report what has been done for each site is an extra layer of control on the work done on each site, quality control if you will. Without that extra layer of accountability on both sides, I can’t tell you how much temptation there is to half-ass it and leave. It’s true that measures can be put in place to reprimand people who may not have done a thorough job but it’s better to have a working system that we get paid for than have to run after people after the fact to punish them for a system that our client can’t use. Sometimes, things are overlooked and it’s not because the individual is lazy or incompetent, and a second set of eyes from a different perspective can catch errors that aren’t as apparent to somebody who just spent the last 20 minutes working on it.
3. Most importantly, the field team and the NOC team in the office have 2 very different job descriptions and skill sets because it’s not just about checking if the data on the dashboard is the same as that physically measured but it’s also about troubleshooting, depending on if a discrepancy measured is a logical/software issue or a physical/hardware issue. It’s literally the difference between employing one person who has general knowledge on the whole system and can do a bit of everything, and employing two people each of who is an expert on one of the two different parts of the system to work on that part.
Thanks for this comment - it made me really think about my role and really assess the need for my entire team. Loved the stimulation ✨👌🏽
PS: the term ‘site’ refers to one cell tower location.
@@mutomboinprogress Thank you for the explanation.
Yes it is always best to ensure control area is reading the same as field site. Sometimes lines add distortions or signal loss or both. After maintenance a full loop check is necessary.
@@wilcoxdaniel9825 Very correct! Thanks Daniel!
Nice looking beautiful woko
Go girl, it's great to see you in your element. This is the kind of representation we as African women need to put out there. Great job sis.👏🏾
Thank you so much Sylvia ❤❤!!
As a female engineering student, this kind of content is so encouraging and inspirational 🤍
Aww thank you 🙏🏽. Keep working hard and tailor your skills towards today’s industry and you will soar!
how is it going? im considering studying engineering but im intimidated because im not math savvy
@@mutomboinprogressbetween power system engineering and Telecom which is more okay interms of work balance and the one that is treading over there
Women in jobs like this is so rare to see. Thanks for sharing this with us. Loved every bit of this vlog. You seem very serious and dedicated in every thing you do because you want to do things well. It's so inspiring. Keep it up girl!
Wow thank you so much for these words, Ngum. Means a lot to me ❤❤
Engineers running the world! Most respected profession!!!
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 thank youuu
As a Cameroonian woman aspiring to become an electrical engineer, this video made me so proud and happy! This is truly inspiring
I'm happy to hear this! Thanks for dropping a comment 🤎
I'm so proud to see you using your skills in your home country, Mutombo 🥺👏🏽🥳Makes me so happy to see an African woman in STEM. We need to normalize this 🙌🏽 Africa and no electricity nawao 🤦🏽♀️ Thoroughly enjoyed this and it was informative. Thanks for sharing!
Awwwww thank you so so much Zoey boo! ❤❤❤
As for the electricity, I have made my peace with it 😂😂😂😂
why only in STEM. there are no women in bricklaying, trench digging, well digging, construction. Delusion
You look good in your work attire! It’s refreshing.
I used to be so afraid to ask questions be in during lectures or at work, I would always sit awkwardly and try to figure it out myself when asking could just save me lot of time. So when you said “I never shy away to ask questions”, that just resonated with me and motivated me to now do the same (More often)! I need to remind myself there are no dumb questions AND I am a constant learner so no need for shame..❤️❤️
Omg JessiTrey Love, I completely relate to this. This used to be me, especially at work. It still is, in some aspects of life but I’m working on coming out of it. I was better at asking questions during lectures because I knew that’s what I was paying for. But when it came to work, I would spend hours on a task instead of asking for directions because I felt that’s what they were paying me for. My supervisors for my masters program would tell me they are available for questions and I would never take them up on their offer because I had boxed myself into this idea that research is supposed to be independent study and if I’m worth my salt, I WILL FIGURE IT OUT. I am an over thinker and I overthought myself into a depressive state over the last couple of years. It came to the point where I had to tell myself ‘Life doesn’t have to be a struggle every single moment of my existence’. What you see now is a work in progress. I’m still trying to unlearn and climb down the pedestal I put myself on, and that every one around me put me on. No, I want to be down here where the ground is solid and where community functions.
This was my mental state just a few months ago ruclips.net/video/JlsXQWpe_mc/видео.html
I want to encourage you again to ask for help and ask for clarification when you need it because
1. Time is too valuable. More valuable than money or even a reputation for being independent
2. We were are all part of the same body, the same machine, so we all need to help each other
3. It just makes things easier both for you and those you work with, even if they are the ones having to answer your questions.
Thanks for commenting about this, I feel like I just had a deep therapy session and I didn’t know this was sitting on my mind so deeply 😂😂😂. I think this response was more for me than it was for you haha. Sorry for the brain dump 😛😛.
Thank you for your detailed response. I’ve screenshotted so I can come back to it. What you said , I felt it in my core. Being put in a certain position by others, when you encounter difficulties you don’t usually open up to say anything. You suck it up and keep it moving - or at least try.. and then you have the same people always praising you. And sometimes you just want to scream “but I’m struggling right now” it’s very hard lol..
I went back to watch the linked video, and I can only second what has been said in the comments under that video.
“If you’re not making progress, you’re regressing” thank you for that.
It’s not easy but we’ll give ourselves the means to succeed. Even if that means pausing for a moment..❤️
Ps: I’ll keep asking questions when I’m stuck 😄😄
Great to see what an "engineer" actually does. Wish our schools had real open days. Could be inspirational
I honestly wished so too! I remember searching for engineering videos when I was about to graduate undergrad. I could hardly find anything. Thank you so much for watching.
@@mutomboinprogresshow is the job opportunity for electrical engineers
It’s EVERYTHING about this vlog for me 🥹❤️. Truly inspiring 🙌🏾
thank you so much boo ❤❤❤
Congratulations and I commend you for sharing your faith openly may God give you success at work and in life!
Thank you so much! God comes first always and we would be lost without Him.
Great piece! Thank you for sharing. I hope many young women will see this vlog. It’s really inspiring.
Thanks a million, Joh!
Loved this one, interesting what electrical engineers do in the field
Looks like you’re settling in well at your new job. I have no doubt you’ll excel in it! Keep pushing!
I sure am, thank you Es ❤️❤️❤️
This was beautiful to watch. I enjoyed it so much. Please do more of such videos
Thank you so much my fellow engineer 💕💕
My fav RUclipsr…Always so authentic and inspiring and fun…🙂🙂🙂…More grease to your elbow …🙏🏼
GaElle thank you girl! 🥰🥰🥰
Congratulations once again on your new job .. this was such a great vlog and detailed as always. I got to learn abit about telemetry.. you’ve got this , your doing well 👍🏽
Thank you so much, baby girl!! ❤❤
,beautiful Vlog. Thanks for sharing. Your day at your job. Way to go girl
Thank you so much Bertha 😊
This was short massa! Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it. Happy week!!
Thank you Parys boo. And great week to you too! ❤❤
Thanks for sharing, loved the vlog, from South Africa
Thank you so much for watching
I loved this video😍, I loved how you asked questions and they were willing to answer them. African Women in stem🥳
I'm so glad you liked it!! Working on a few more work vlogs to show the office side of this equation. Thanks a million!
I absolutely enjoyed this vlog.
Awesome! Thank you!
I didn't want the video to end! weeh i wish you could put up videos everyday lol. Super interesting job and video as a whole
Thank you Daisy boo. The next video is already on the editing board. Don't worry! ❤❤
Wow I love this video so much Mutombo !!! Women in STEM in Cameroon and my sis is at the top of her game !!!! 😩😍😍😍
Sis ❤️❤️❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺🥺 thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
I am an electrician in USA Texas and I like to see how it’s done from other parts of the world . Not every day I see women in this field keep it up ! God bless !
Wow, thank you!
Best day in the life video, thank you for the content
Hi Juks! Thank you so much for this! I’m so happy you enjoyed it ❤️
So good I enjoyed every bit of it
Congrats again, Mutombo! Women in STEM! Amen!
thank you again Sharia boo ❤❤❤
Haven't seen a video from you in a while as my youtube recommends whatever it feels like and to my surprise I searched and you have a JOB! give praises and best wishes, one step at a time. Is the masters finished? I'll catch up on the other videos in the next few days. Nice catching up with you!!
Mutombo daily is the best Cameroonian youtuber for me. Period💅🏿 I said what I said 😌. Thanks again for this qualitative content 👌🏿👌🏿
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I’m glad you enjoyed this one 🤎
You go girl. You got this😍😍
Thank you Glory ❤❤
This is very interesting, knowing how involving the tasks are in a daily basis.....
Thanks David, I’m happy you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing your unique experience with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the video, Im a electrician and It's good to see the ladies in the field of engineering!!
Thanks Adam!
I know I'm late but Mutumbo girl I salute you. We as black women don't get the credit we deserve but just know i/we see you sistah. Do the damn thing boo and not to mention you look so beautiful doing it. Hair on fleek and skin on ultraglow. Glow girl glow like the true queen that you are. As always ( my daughter and I and everybody in Atlanta, GA that I brag about you to) , we rooting for you queen 💅🏾👸🏽
Hahahaha always a delight to read from you, Lulu. Thank you so much for the constant encouragement. It goes a long way ❤❤❤. Hugs to your daughter!
I’m proud of you 🎉
Keep up going the good work
Thank you Ismailou 🙏🏽🙏🏽
For Cameroon 🇨🇲 to move we need expertise like yours .God bless you Sis .keep it up you are doing excellent 👏 Bravo
thank you so much, Manny. Glad you enjoyed the vid.
I am an Electrical engineering student and I have been inspired with what you are doing.
Thank you so much, Zena. Happy I could be a positive influence.
We love a multitalented queen.😍 Those cornrows are 🔥.
thank you my boo! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Waaaahhh baddest Engineer in the city of hustle 😊😊 more grease Mutombs !! You are doing great!
Hahahhahahahaha why did that make me burst into laughter? Thank you Faby ❤️
I'm proud of you Mutombo jooh❤️
Thank you so so much, Sicelo!
nice video dear, i learnt a lot!
My fave😍😍😍 this was such a good vlog to watch 😍👏🏾
Yay I'm so glad you loved this! Thank you Precious! xo
I know I enjoyed it.
Inspiring video. This is why we love you girl. We love the Boss, go getter part of u. Please show us more of these kinds of videos, I think you will inspire a lot of youths
Girl, you need to work on being consistent. You leave your subscribers craving for more content, you come back, make an apology and promise to get better but you never do get better, I don’t like that about you . How many times can one forgive a sister lol??? Anyways you have a lot of potential in this RUclips content creating pls keep it up, I know multitasking is not easy but to make it in life today you must learn to multitask. That was me scolding at you to wake your behind up and creat more content consistently, it’s all love baby girl. Looking forward to another great one from you.
Wehh this one really touched me. You have a very good point! I will organise myself and do better. Thanks Andin!
Thank you so much for sharing this.
You are so welcome, Sandra!
Excellent editing and content. Interesting video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely and interesting as i work on similar sytems myself. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! ✨✨
I'm real proud of you girl!!! 😭💪
Awww thank you so much Bee ❤️❤️
Very refreshing to watch😊
Thank you so much. Happy you enjoyed it ❤
Thanks for sharing with us sis❤️❤️
You are so welcome, Mira 🥰
New here, My kind of gurl! Proud of you. Nice video editing
Thanks a million, Patty. And thank you for joining 😘🥰
i feel an overwhelming sense of happiness for you
Thank you so much ☺️
Very inspiring video!
Thanks so much!
Congratulations on your new role Sassy! I know getting around douala is insane in the mornings! Motto go set small time 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
I am even considering buying okada before even car because the traffic girl!
@@mutomboinprogress hahaha I love that! Come to think of it actually that'll be dope! 💃🏾💃🏾😁😁
Nice vlog. Your work looks cool.
Thank you so much, Primrose!
This was son engaging. Thanks for sharing 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it Unku Chinext 😉😉
You're amazing... Congratulations on the new job again...... Do give away na boss🤣🤣🤣
Hahahaha I've actually been thinking of this. Please give me ideas on what I can giveaway (I'm not a fan of cash giveaways but open to it if there is no other option). I also need it to be something in which an international audience can participate coz Cameroon is just about 7% of my audience. I thought of gift cards but still on the fence. I decided to give away illustrations last time but it ended up being soooooo much work for me.
This was interesting! I hope all is going well.
Thank you so much Michelle ❤❤❤. So far, so good.
This is my favorite 😍
Hahaha I could have guessed, from your previous comment ✨✨
Ur job looks so interesting n challenging but u mke it look easy. Go gurl👏👌.
Thank you boo! It's not that bad, honestly. Na we like for use big big grammar and tech jargon but most of these concepts can be understood by anyone if they are explained properly. ❤❤
@@mutomboinprogress wow nice to knw 😁
Thank you for video Mutombo!
My pleasure!
1 minute in... love the hair, love the shades 😊.
Thank you my love ❤❤❤
Love it ❤
Thank you! 🙏🏽✨
Great discovery and great video
Thanks Mohaman, glad you enjoyed it
Fellow to be engineer watching from Bangladesh. Wish you all the very best in your worklife.
Thank you very much sir 🙏🏽
Great stuff.
I'm a new subscriber and an electrician from Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭.
Great! Nice connecting!!! Thanks for checking out the video!
Your work is interesting ☺️ it looks like magic to some of us!!!
Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha am telling you Lorraine
Hahaha if I just take 1 full day to explain it to you, you can do it too. I’ve learned that nothing is above understanding if you have a good teacher. Not even rocket science.
@@mutomboinprogress Impressive!!!! You are indeed a woman in STEM!
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Glad you're enjoying the vids.
I don’t even know what to say, this was 🔥
thank you so so much, Vic
What an inspiration 🔥💯
thank you ✨
Whoah...
Working and simultaneously filming 🤌
Girl more grace
Thank you so much Jeri!
Look a lot like my friend studying electronic engineering too. Cameroonians are very hardworking I must say. We just need to come back home after all the studies and make our country better.
Very true! We really need a lot of our talent back home and we need home to treat us better too 👌🏽🙏🏽
Girl… electrical engineering in french! T
That actually had me shook!😅😂🤣 YKWIM💪🏽💪🏽 God Bless your career 🙏🏾
My sister, this French. Some days, I get up and refuse to speak it because I'm too tired to translate. I just speak to everybody in English. You can respond in French or English - but me, I'm speaking English. 😂😂😂
Thank you so much for speaking blessings into my life, Len ❤❤❤
Very proud of you! You're coming back to the real you already.
Hahahahahaha thanks ❤️❤️
BEAUTY & BRAINS 😍
Thank you ❤️❤️
Beautiful I love this video. Big up
Thanks so much. ❤️❤️
Am proud of you,,am also proud of my self am a student in department of electrical engineering ❤big uo to us ladies in STEM💃💃💃we light the world
Thank you Anina!! More grease to your elbows and all the best with your studies! ❤❤
I'm also electrical engineer. The best profession that exist! Congrats for vídeo!
Thank you very much!
God bless you for uploading your career you are teaching the young and the old of where the world is at with the technology have, I've done all the things in your video in so many bad places, never thought about documenting it though its deep, it gets very deep don't get lost
Awww thank you so much!!
That verse is one my dad drilled into me growing up, each time I want to slack at work, the Holy Spirit hits me with it. 😂
I love that verse. I first found it about 8 years ago.
Wow 🏆🏆
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I like the French and English mix chat. It reminds me of my Friday days in yde in 2000
Awww on dirait ‘à notre époque’ 😂. Thanks uncle D!
First here💃💃
Ha ah! 5 a.m? You’re a real one 😘
Love you always ♥️♥️♥️
I’ve missed you boo!!
Professionalism & expertise is the key
#engineer
I love the way u explained soils. That’s my area of specialization and that’s one of the projects my team works on when we go for field work. Lol but people don’t seem to get it when I say am a soil expert.
Thank you very much, Dr Wainkwa. I've realised since entering the professional world in 2015 that half of the jobs out there are not the traditional things we were taught about in school. There are literally companies and business sectors we would never hear of, unless we knew someone who worked there.
I hope you enjoy your work as a soil expert! 🥂
@@mutomboinprogress thanks I do enjoy my job. Please keep sharing more of ur job videos😁. They inspire I assure u
You go girl. You are indeed a woman of many talents 💪💪💪Please don't forget sunscreen when you are out on the field😁😁😁
Thank you beautiful Francess. Ooo yes, I wore sunscreen for that field work.
Indeed you're agood and lady am inspired with what you're doing
great job 👍👍👍
thank you very much!
Female Electrical Engineering Student ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉 so inspiring
Thanks Tavia ❤✨
Well done ma cherie, a Cameroonian sister in the US
thanks a million, Joyce ❤
Proud of this sister
Awww thank you Samson
Thanks for the video. It gives me a picture of what my life will be like as an Environmental Engineer in very few years to come🥵
Awww I'm happy you enjoyed it. Do you enjoy what you study?
@@mutomboinprogress Yeah absolutely ✨
Well done girl
Courage
thank you so much, HomeBoyMediaTV
New subscriber!
Hey,am currently doing my N3 in the same field and am already going through a lot of pressure since exams are starting in a week.Am not an A+ student so I have to work a thousand times harder than every other person does.Any advice on study productivity or any advice at a?
Keep the good work up
thanks a million
Great job u got there
thank you Philemon
Oh my 🔥
Thank you baby girl
I love your reference on Colossians... 👏👏👏.. may the Lord's favor and grace of Excellency be with you.
Amen! And I pray for the same for you ❤
Courage girl 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks baby girl 😘
Proud of this content, as an Electrical Engineering Student, Keep doing more. Is load shedding in Douala as persistent?
I think it depends on the season but it has been about twice a month over the last 2 months. Electricity has been pretty stable in Douala recently.