I said "fuck it" a while back,I sell used cars now.
In the 90s I worked for a company that supplied equipment to fabs. I did installs and trained the maint dudes how to keep them running and how to fix them if they broke. Most of my return trips to the same places were because the guys I had trained 6 months ago quit, or were moved to a different dept.
I'm not surprised your pay is crap, after all the crappy management I had to deal with at fabs.
All I've noticed is once you get over that bump, up in office or off the floor, that's when things chance. But they keep telling me it was college and I call bs.
Same here, some jobs I applied for I never got an interview because I didn't have a 4 year degree. But, over the years I did get hired by a couple of international companies. Usually I was the only one without a degree, but I ended up being the guy that got sent to fix things when the first or second guy they sent couldn't find the problem. I got all my electronics training in the military. I also had a very good mechanical aptitude, and could figure out how things worked, and what to do to fix them. I ended up only being home a week every couple of months, so changed companies to be a bench tech that involved little travel.
Why are you still there?
That's a lot of the tech industry. We still have places here wanting high-tech Bs and Ms degree people for 15-17hr - or less. Warehouses are starting at 19, and I've told off quite a few recruiters who wanted wage slaves.
I was floored when the manager of the local (small world, yeah?) Panda Express told me he made well over 80k that year. The place basically sells itself, other than day to day business needs you keep the floor clean and the food fresh and people swarm it.
If you're a regional manager you make like 100-120k a year. It's so wild. I still refuse to work in their clinks because I don't believe it builds hard workmanship. You're literally being a slave to people.
I rather manage the semiconductor job. I only like the idea because I want to be the supervisor who knows you're not doing your job.
ProTip: start working at Panda Express.
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