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Career question for seasoned (and not-so-seasoned) Electronic Engineers!

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Hello all

 

I'm having a minor career crisis and was hoping to tap in to the collective knowledge and experience here for some input! Basically I'm an Electronic Engineer with a good degree and 11 years in various industries, and fairly recently I moved to a role which is pretty stressful (I work in a fairly small consumer electronics company where our product product development happens incredibly quickly!).

 

Having just had a baby (well my wife did, but you know what I mean) suddenly it feels like there are far better things to worry about than whether my latest design will get through EMC, or why the battery charging circuit I've just built keeps catching fire (for example).

 

Is there anyone out there in the ether who trained as an EE but has ended up in a different field in which they really love going to work?! Or alternatively any engineers who work somewhere that really values them and doesn't ask unreasonable demands ("we need a new product designed. You've got 2 weeks")?

 

There are probably lots of details I've left out, mainly for the sake of keeping this short(ish), but any input on jobs or employers you really loved would be hugely appreciated.

 

Many thanks!

 

Jeff

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  • Hi Jeff,

    I did my apprenticeship and degree in electrical engineering. I've ended up writing software for a now medium sized company and yes I do enjoy going to work and what I do. Our fires are virtual only and there are plenty of days when demands are unreasonable. We used to have more site visits and I do kind of miss those but the advantage of working in software is that it does not always matter where I work. So for the last 4 years (since my daughter was born) I've been working Mondays and Fridays at home. It does not make things any easier but it does mean more time with the family (I've not worked out if that's a good thing yet).

    Cheers,

    Andy

    p.s. I have an average of 90mins to 2hrs commute each way to the office.

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  • Hi Jeff,

    I did my apprenticeship and degree in electrical engineering. I've ended up writing software for a now medium sized company and yes I do enjoy going to work and what I do. Our fires are virtual only and there are plenty of days when demands are unreasonable. We used to have more site visits and I do kind of miss those but the advantage of working in software is that it does not always matter where I work. So for the last 4 years (since my daughter was born) I've been working Mondays and Fridays at home. It does not make things any easier but it does mean more time with the family (I've not worked out if that's a good thing yet).

    Cheers,

    Andy

    p.s. I have an average of 90mins to 2hrs commute each way to the office.

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