HyacinthHouse
Aerospace
- Apr 25, 2023
- 1
Orite? Very keen to indulge in the content of this lively and far ranging forum, but first I need advice.
After a couple of not entirely irresponsible years pursuing my sporting and travel passions, working at home and in France as a kitchen hand, it's high time I got back into technical work and used my education and 4 year aerospace electronics factory experience, in which I ended as test equipment maintenance personnel, carrying out external calibration removals and refitting, and fault finding on business critical production test systems, internally designed test fixtures and cable harnesses. The business area was in RADAR production. Various other test, design, config and project areas were experienced, also in the laser business area.
I've just been invited to a small SONAR factory to demonstrate practical skills as applicable to a potential role as a transducer technician, carrying out manufacture, assembly and test of their products. Despite no hands on practical, material, manufacturing experience at work; my school, college, teenage work experience and DIY propensity can sell myself there. Testing and working with engineering data are the strengths I have.
The focal point of concern for me that's so immediately obvious is what a crossroads I'm at, having the skills and enthusiasm to return to industry, but ideally wanting to find a career that will tick my boxes in terms of either something part time that allows me plenty of time to occupy myself with my other pursuits, work that I could travel with, or work that takes on a shorter term and temporary nature that allows me freed up to for example continue with seasonal work in winter hospitality in France. I'm actually quite overwhelmed by ambition currently, and it's wild to think of all the potential paths my life could go down now.
Am I doomed to a dichotomy in which I either commit my life energy to my career, or abandon my skills in favour of my passions and curiosity for the world? No. Won't hear otherwise. Niches exist. The economy should serve us, and not vice versa.
Everybody is telling me I just need to lie to prospective employers and pretend I have the interest in commiting to one place and line of work for decades. I think it works better for everyone if I'm up front about this from the beginning. I'm learning French and have serious intention not to live here all my life. If an enterprise wants to retain its investment in people for years, but employs me in full knowledge and regardless of the fleeting and nomadic ideal of how I want to live in my 20s, then it can only be a good thing. I can sell myself well and I'm enthusiastic, inquisitive and adaptable. This visit to this employer's site next week is going to just be valuable in itself, even if they don't want me or I don't want them. I want to see test programs and design principles, but I also want to see skateboard tricks, forests and hillsides.
I need a job at SERMA maintaining ski lifts in Europe (but thanks brexit). Or become a self employed electrician. Or work offshore and have chapters of work, then life, then work. I need inspiration, then something to pour aspiration into.
After a couple of not entirely irresponsible years pursuing my sporting and travel passions, working at home and in France as a kitchen hand, it's high time I got back into technical work and used my education and 4 year aerospace electronics factory experience, in which I ended as test equipment maintenance personnel, carrying out external calibration removals and refitting, and fault finding on business critical production test systems, internally designed test fixtures and cable harnesses. The business area was in RADAR production. Various other test, design, config and project areas were experienced, also in the laser business area.
I've just been invited to a small SONAR factory to demonstrate practical skills as applicable to a potential role as a transducer technician, carrying out manufacture, assembly and test of their products. Despite no hands on practical, material, manufacturing experience at work; my school, college, teenage work experience and DIY propensity can sell myself there. Testing and working with engineering data are the strengths I have.
The focal point of concern for me that's so immediately obvious is what a crossroads I'm at, having the skills and enthusiasm to return to industry, but ideally wanting to find a career that will tick my boxes in terms of either something part time that allows me plenty of time to occupy myself with my other pursuits, work that I could travel with, or work that takes on a shorter term and temporary nature that allows me freed up to for example continue with seasonal work in winter hospitality in France. I'm actually quite overwhelmed by ambition currently, and it's wild to think of all the potential paths my life could go down now.
Am I doomed to a dichotomy in which I either commit my life energy to my career, or abandon my skills in favour of my passions and curiosity for the world? No. Won't hear otherwise. Niches exist. The economy should serve us, and not vice versa.
Everybody is telling me I just need to lie to prospective employers and pretend I have the interest in commiting to one place and line of work for decades. I think it works better for everyone if I'm up front about this from the beginning. I'm learning French and have serious intention not to live here all my life. If an enterprise wants to retain its investment in people for years, but employs me in full knowledge and regardless of the fleeting and nomadic ideal of how I want to live in my 20s, then it can only be a good thing. I can sell myself well and I'm enthusiastic, inquisitive and adaptable. This visit to this employer's site next week is going to just be valuable in itself, even if they don't want me or I don't want them. I want to see test programs and design principles, but I also want to see skateboard tricks, forests and hillsides.
I need a job at SERMA maintaining ski lifts in Europe (but thanks brexit). Or become a self employed electrician. Or work offshore and have chapters of work, then life, then work. I need inspiration, then something to pour aspiration into.
