My dream of becoming an automation electrician dissolved after talking with my contacts at Siemens, Convirgint, Techmation etc. I took a job at a motor rewind shop and that only lasted 2 months until they got slow.
I am starting a new job in Jan as a "machine build specialist". Very excited and the staff are an A-Team of engineers, machinists and fabricators. As an uneducated EPCM vendor PM being my career for the last 18 years and spending most of the last year unemployed I had a hard time coming to terms with the fact that all my professional skills honed during my career were null and void as I don't have a degree or diploma to back it up. Seemed like all the jobs on Indeed want a P.Eng or M.Tech. I was really having a hard time with this as I am as qualified as any engineer to be an EPCM pm for manufacturing. I spent a lot of the last year really depressed.
Anyhoo I am starting a new job in Jan as a "machine build specialist" with an amazing company. At 42 I have experience, comfortable running a RAIL meeting and am a drafting/design expert. This company wants to leverage all my skills, PM, Procurement, design, implementation, automation, installation - commissioning and service. I'll be hopping around as needed and be part of the designing of custom manufacturing equipment. pretty excited. ![Smilie](/b/i/smilies/smile.gif)
Currently everybody that can work from home is doing so, only guys in the building are the machinists
Machining, Fabricating, Welding etc.