@engineeredappliancerepair2752

So glad that you put this out there. On reddit you see a lot of fresh grads who are struggling to find work because they won't take maintenance, field service or tech support jobs. The fact is you just need to get in the door of a company and establish yourself. Build some real world experience!

@LightingUpTheAbyss

Absolutely agree Tim, Maintenance is the best way to master equipment troubleshooting. An that company is bound to have a vacancy for controls at some point. Hiring internally is much smoother.

@RyderDK

I'm currently studying to be an automation technician, which is a trade school variant in Scandinavia.. I feel quite lucky that I have ~3 years out of 4,5 where I work as a maintenance tech and get thrown some automation assignments slowly as my skills improve.
When I am finally done I will have both the knowledge and experience.

@neslearns4912

What an absolute amazing video and even greater piece of advice! I have an electronics engineering degree and have worked as a manufacturing supervisor and I am currently a semiconductor equipment technician and I can tell you right now that being on the maintenance side of things with the knowledge of an engineer is worth more than any masters just like it stated in here I know because I have seen it multiple times even though many of these engineers are very intelligent and very great peopleNothing substitutes the experience, the little things that you cannot learn in a book.

@codyhanthorn4270

There is enourmous amount of truth to this.

@zrusso8731

I wish my son would have known this information.  He graduated last year as a mechanical engineer. He has been applying everywhere and finally after a year he has a job opportunity for the city.  Payment not that good but hopefully he gets enough experience for later getting a better paying position.

@R0cketRed

No classroom anything equals doing it for a living for even 6 months.

@aj6365

I took associate engineering,  started as machine operator now I'm control and instrumentation tech,  they asked me to become an engineer but I like the EMT type of jobs patches and send it

@MsLifelol

I’ve been doing E/I and automation for 10 years now . I’m looking to advance myself some more. What vets do you recommend?

@joshuasmith5289

So im the opposite.  Bachelor's  and 3 years as a panel builder/ siemens and AB programmer.  But i have only on the job training.  What certs should i be after?