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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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  • There are a few issues here !

     

    Having a baby (by proxy or actually) is a bit of a life changing experience and you may need some time to get used to it and re-balance (mine are now 16,18,20 and 22 and still need more looking after than I expected.)

     

    Be  a bit more Zen about the whole thing - go to work, do your best, be  a nice person - if it's not good enough they'll sack you or you can leave and find something else  - there is a world shortage of engineers.

     

    If it's this employer that doesn't suit then find another.

     

    If you can't cope with employers any more then you could try working independently - but from experience I can tell you that you  trade one set of problems for another.

     

    Mainly I would suggest that you don't fall into the trap of actually believing that the grass is greener elsewhere - sometimes I'm envious of academics and their cool lifestyle and good pay, then a friend who works in that business tells me a new horror story and I realise that 2 weeks hunting down a bug in an FPGA (with a customer breathing down my neck) wasn't too bad after all.

     

    MK

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  • There are a few issues here !

     

    Having a baby (by proxy or actually) is a bit of a life changing experience and you may need some time to get used to it and re-balance (mine are now 16,18,20 and 22 and still need more looking after than I expected.)

     

    Be  a bit more Zen about the whole thing - go to work, do your best, be  a nice person - if it's not good enough they'll sack you or you can leave and find something else  - there is a world shortage of engineers.

     

    If it's this employer that doesn't suit then find another.

     

    If you can't cope with employers any more then you could try working independently - but from experience I can tell you that you  trade one set of problems for another.

     

    Mainly I would suggest that you don't fall into the trap of actually believing that the grass is greener elsewhere - sometimes I'm envious of academics and their cool lifestyle and good pay, then a friend who works in that business tells me a new horror story and I realise that 2 weeks hunting down a bug in an FPGA (with a customer breathing down my neck) wasn't too bad after all.

     

    MK

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