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Re: Starting late to be an Engineer...
I have a few good friends that I graduated from High School with in Milwaukee and the took a non-college career path while I went on to school. I can tell you that every year I came back to visit, they seemed like the big man on campus to me, they all had new cars, new gadgets, meanwhile I had my beater and not much else. However after graduation and getting a job in the industry I can say without a doubt your earning potential is higher. While they started out pretty nice there is somewhat limited upward growth at most shops unless you want to get completely out of being a mechanic and go to something more like management of the shop (and even that might not be possible if the owner takes on that role as in most smaller shops). This is especially true with the standards that have been set for most repairs on time and cost. On the engineering side, many companies have different career paths that can take you onward and upward. You may find that you can make enough money in your engineering job that it can bankroll quite a nice hobby also of something like restoring or modifing cars at your leisure. I guess my whole point was that I always felt my friends had it made after highschool but at that point in my life I was pretty unaware of what is possible out in corporate world. If you do stay in the mechanic field, I have been hearing that the top path is usually to become the lead elecrical technician of the shop, all new cars are getting more complex electrically and the shops my friends work at are very limited in expertise in the electrical arena.
Matt
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