What Is Your Level Of Education???
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Fifteen years as a mechanic on the emissions tech side of things.
Five or six years part-timing my way through college.
Twenty-two years after high school I got a BA in environmental policy and worked until retirement as a regional planner.
Five or six years part-timing my way through college.
Twenty-two years after high school I got a BA in environmental policy and worked until retirement as a regional planner.
Agree. I really don't like personally conducting electricity at all.
H2oman7.62mm
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My education is ongoing because I am still learning things that I didn't previously know, or I had forgotten that I already knew.
N0rt0n
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Went to a Tech High School and majored in Drafting (on the board). Landed a job out of school doing the detailed drawings for metal stamping dies. They ran out of drawing work and I ended up in the machine shop and eventually became a Journeyman Toolmaker. Later I taught myself Autocad and worked my way back into a design group where we designed and built custom machines.
25 years later I had some work related injuries and went to college at age 42. Got an Associate Degree in Network Engineering. First job out of college was supporting Regulatory Publishing software for big pharma. After 20 years and 10 company changes I was laid off in the summer of 2024. Within 3 months I landed a job with a direct competitor doing the same thing but for the world leader in this type of software.
So, High School > Apprenticeship > Associate Degree
Looking forward to retiring in 3 years.
25 years later I had some work related injuries and went to college at age 42. Got an Associate Degree in Network Engineering. First job out of college was supporting Regulatory Publishing software for big pharma. After 20 years and 10 company changes I was laid off in the summer of 2024. Within 3 months I landed a job with a direct competitor doing the same thing but for the world leader in this type of software.
So, High School > Apprenticeship > Associate Degree
Looking forward to retiring in 3 years.
N0rt0n
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I could do it now but would be throwing away a lot of money.
Started off in a trade school (electronics) in 1972, spent the next 10 years bouncing around computer firms along the Rt.128 technology belt. Got bored.
Spent a few years as an Industrial Electrician, didn't care much for that much. It was either too hot, too cold, too dirty and didn't pay well.
Went back to school (Lowell Technological Institute - L.T.I.) for my B.S.I.T. only to discover I didn't like being an I.T. guy.
Found an opening at an M.I.T. Research Laboratory doing engineering work for the DoD, that was a match.
Stayed there until retirement, some 35 years. Wish I did that first.
All the while I was fixing radios/stereos on the side for friends.
The hobby that turns into an obsession.
I'm working as many hours now in retirement as I did in the trades.
Keeps me out of trouble.
Spent a few years as an Industrial Electrician, didn't care much for that much. It was either too hot, too cold, too dirty and didn't pay well.
Went back to school (Lowell Technological Institute - L.T.I.) for my B.S.I.T. only to discover I didn't like being an I.T. guy.
Found an opening at an M.I.T. Research Laboratory doing engineering work for the DoD, that was a match.
Stayed there until retirement, some 35 years. Wish I did that first.
All the while I was fixing radios/stereos on the side for friends.
The hobby that turns into an obsession.
I'm working as many hours now in retirement as I did in the trades.
Keeps me out of trouble.
I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree but I did earn a bachelor's in communications... don't understand how.
Unduly influenced by TV dads Wilbur Post & Mike Brady, I set out to be an Architect in HS. So did everyone else and by ‘75 Cal Poly SLO’s program was impacted, so after (2) 23 unit semesters at LBCC I hired in at Fluor as an OJT electrical designer. It was during the cost-plus petrochemical boom times in ’75. And I needed to bide my time and hoped to get into Fluor’s architecture department. 13 years and 3 jobs later oil engineering had tanked and I switched to A&E, PM and CX management in cellular in ‘88. Retired after 43 years w/o the degree. It was a good ride.
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Was with Motorola doing field service until Google hosed us, went thru a few service shops until 2-way dried up then moved to plastics. Also worked with my dad as a technical writer for the better part of 25 years both of us having come thru Onan service training, my dad was one of the engineers on the Onan L-series diesel in the late-70's thru the 80's so I sort of grew up there. Good times until Cummins bought up Onan. Today I do what I can as my arthritic hands allow and work with cat rescues. In this life I'm just along for the ride.
I'm doing some research on the topic now, looks like I almost can, Maybe some sort of part time work yet i think...