Profession change at 30 and over...

[Blitz Blitz]

Hi. I wanna something new from life. Thinking about new profession, job. I have one of engineering bachelor degree, but country where I live, works more with manufacturing, than engineering. So you are more laborer than specialist. Yes, I know and work with some programs like autocad/draftsight, inventor, solidworks, maybe my skills is not great, but for my job is enough. Work with some cam software. Maintaining cnc machine, that costs a lot, and need responsibility. But I'm tired to wake up in the morning , and make same actions day by day, changing parts, tools, working overtime, shifts, poisoning with coolant vapor, metal and abrasive dust and etc. Maybe I should search similar job somewhere in Europe with higher salary and more respect for employee?

Thinking about new activities too. The bigest problem I think is my age, now i'm at 30 and becoming 31 next year, have family, less time, for myself and etc. That forum also give me a lot of good things, i'm reading topics few years, built great pc by my own, with quality and good parts for money, watching youtube about pc hardware, performance, and etc. Thinking about career in IT sector, maybe i'm not become expert, or pro in programming field, but wanna know pc hardware and repair it. Also another electronics repair, and maintenance like phone, tv, etc. Office services like printing, scaning and more. Maintain pc park, servers, softwares, in company, office. And maybe, if I hook up try something with programming, web creating, and more software things. What do think? Sorry for english.

 

[william p]

That has always been the nature of manufacturing. The same thing over and over. But if you're going to change don't wait. 30 is still young enough to learn something else, but old enough to have some experience, and a "track record" of dependability, or skills, or experience to sell, that younger people don't have. But you have to realize that your employer is paying you to do what they want done, not what you feel like doing. I found a job with good pay, and good retirement and did the same thing over and over for 25 years.
It wasn't fun, but it beat hell out of going from one "interesting" job to another not knowing what would happen next.