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C IL | There are a surprising amount of jobs advertised as technical/engineering that do not involve PE/BS Eng degrees. Factories, etc. Technical support/sales reps for hundreds of companies, many of them farm companies, where you start your day at your home in your work truck, answer your phone and email, and head out for the day to support your customer base. I have a neighbor or two who does this - one has worked as a technical rep for several ag equipment companies. Another is a technical specialist for certain electrical motor starters for a regional electrical supply house and his phone rings off the hook keeping factories compliant with OSHA and helping keep machines running when a component fails. One has a technology BS (not engineering) and the other, I’m not sure he even has a degree necessarily.
At 32 I imagine you are calm and disciplined enough to figure the math out - can you put life on hold for a year or four to study, depending on your previous education level?
Me, I do some PE work on the side of farming, I keep myself in groceries etc. I do some special niche things, some of which are more personally rewarding than others. I don’t know how you would get the skills and contacts to do that without working in industry for a while. | |
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Engineering career?
