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.
Currently everybody that can work from home is doing so, only guys in the building are the machinists
Machining, Fabricating, Welding etc.