In this episode of the Fresh Engineer Podcast I’m talking to Naomi Bakker who is a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands. She took a new direction after her bachelor studies and is now working as a porfolio manager at the truck manufacturing company Scania in Södertälje here in Sweden. We met while studying the same master’s program Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management at KTH here in Stockholm and we recently realized that we’re almost neighbors.

We had a chat about why mechanical engineering is a great study option if you have no idea what you want to do with your career, why she decided to follow a trainee program after her studies and her experience as a trainee at Scania, how to take advantage of being a generalist rather than a specialist in your career, and what she does as a porfolio manager and how her engineering background helps her even in the rather non-technical role she has now.