simodefa
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hi to all, first of all I wanted to say that having found this forum for me was a relief and a pleasure, since I am not a real mechanic who found himself in the hands tasks as a mechanic.
I present briefly my situation:
I am 24 years old, I graduated in electronics and automation, I continued my studies doing the mechatronics in vicenza, a path in my opinion shorter and more focused on the practice than perhaps the unit.
I don't know yet if mechatronics has been a good choice, not so much for the job opportunities that were good both as quantity (in Veneto there is a lot of work for us technicians) and as all-in-one quality; I think it was a mistake because this type of path is excessively generic and dispersive, since it has to face many disciplines in less than two years.
my first job was as an electronic engineer/designer in a very small company (10 people): here I learned a lot about the design of electronic cards (schemes and pcb), I refined my programming skills c on microcontrollers and I performed many tests on card prototypes.
In short, I was well started towards this path by electronics, but after the first and a half year that in reality the pure electronics did not give me particularly, it is as if it did not fit into my way of reasoning, I often could not just stand behind it, also complicit the difficulty of the problems I had in front (most of the times much higher than my ability).
against programming in c had much more passionate about me, however I did not have much opportunity in this sense since the totality of the firmware were made by the senior designer and my boss (the technical office was composed of me and from him point, 2 people in total).
in a short time however, the company became increasingly important the need to have a mechanical designer who carried out some new project, there was a person in the company who knew a little about drawing at cad 3d however his job was another one and therefore could not focus on drawing.
I came forward because I had learned quite well inventor during the mechatronics course; Drawing at cad 3d I always liked it very much, let's say that it gives me a lot of satisfaction the fact to reproduce exactly something concrete in a virtual environment, or anyway to create something new putting my personal taste to us.
I would often prefer my drawings to remain only virtual, since they are punctually in the process of realization, as far as I've been unspoiled in order to avoid errors and problems, problems come out that, by my ignorance and inexperience, I would never have thought could happen.
I'm stretching... but now that I have started to tell everything:
In short, in this company I was in the same day going from cad 3d to make firmware or to do electronic tests.
as already told in reality to me all these different activities and disciplines liked well or bad all, I almost always come home in the evening satisfied with what I had done in day and overall was a nice first work experience.
nothing in a few words this company has been closed and I have agreed to move to Piedmont in the place we say bigger (of 20 people). here is where I work right now, I say 85% of works as a mechanical designer, mostly design plastic pieces and light carpenters for various applications (staffs, covers, supports and stuff like that).
of electronics I do not do almost anything (every few tests and some pcb when the designer here is busy), absolutely zero programming (he cries me a little heart).
the problem that I have at this moment is that I am very fought on which is the best way to go given my situation.
My heart tells me to keep alive all the skills I've learned so far and put them together somehow (I don't know if there is even such a varied role/carrier, project manager? production manager? ).
The brain tells me to choose something to specialize once and for all, since time passes and I have to become a professional in something before it is too late.
I could perfect my skills with the cad, more or less I can do everything apart from the surfaces I absolutely know nothing about. I could learn how to make renderings good of what drawing (would be cool).
I would also miss a thorough study of mechanical manuals to bring me as much as possible with those who studied pure mechanics.
I could go back and deepen the programming c and maybe add programming pc type c# or python or c++.
I could totally change and become a web programmer or something, I don't think I'd mind even this way.
I don't know which way to choose and I don't even know how to realize each one of them. If I could learn everything, I'm attracted to what I don't know and don't know.
But I also have a great fear of being stuck in this work (which I still like, but I have the impression that it becomes less and less stimulant) or always being what little knows about everything.
In addition to knowing little about everything makes your life difficult at work since it comes consequently to lack experience and quality in the most specific activities.
if someone has arrived here deserves a nice beer offer, if no one has arrived here or does not know how to help me patience I will use this flow of consciousness to reorder ideas.
I present briefly my situation:
I am 24 years old, I graduated in electronics and automation, I continued my studies doing the mechatronics in vicenza, a path in my opinion shorter and more focused on the practice than perhaps the unit.
I don't know yet if mechatronics has been a good choice, not so much for the job opportunities that were good both as quantity (in Veneto there is a lot of work for us technicians) and as all-in-one quality; I think it was a mistake because this type of path is excessively generic and dispersive, since it has to face many disciplines in less than two years.
my first job was as an electronic engineer/designer in a very small company (10 people): here I learned a lot about the design of electronic cards (schemes and pcb), I refined my programming skills c on microcontrollers and I performed many tests on card prototypes.
In short, I was well started towards this path by electronics, but after the first and a half year that in reality the pure electronics did not give me particularly, it is as if it did not fit into my way of reasoning, I often could not just stand behind it, also complicit the difficulty of the problems I had in front (most of the times much higher than my ability).
against programming in c had much more passionate about me, however I did not have much opportunity in this sense since the totality of the firmware were made by the senior designer and my boss (the technical office was composed of me and from him point, 2 people in total).
in a short time however, the company became increasingly important the need to have a mechanical designer who carried out some new project, there was a person in the company who knew a little about drawing at cad 3d however his job was another one and therefore could not focus on drawing.
I came forward because I had learned quite well inventor during the mechatronics course; Drawing at cad 3d I always liked it very much, let's say that it gives me a lot of satisfaction the fact to reproduce exactly something concrete in a virtual environment, or anyway to create something new putting my personal taste to us.
I would often prefer my drawings to remain only virtual, since they are punctually in the process of realization, as far as I've been unspoiled in order to avoid errors and problems, problems come out that, by my ignorance and inexperience, I would never have thought could happen.
I'm stretching... but now that I have started to tell everything:
In short, in this company I was in the same day going from cad 3d to make firmware or to do electronic tests.
as already told in reality to me all these different activities and disciplines liked well or bad all, I almost always come home in the evening satisfied with what I had done in day and overall was a nice first work experience.
nothing in a few words this company has been closed and I have agreed to move to Piedmont in the place we say bigger (of 20 people). here is where I work right now, I say 85% of works as a mechanical designer, mostly design plastic pieces and light carpenters for various applications (staffs, covers, supports and stuff like that).
of electronics I do not do almost anything (every few tests and some pcb when the designer here is busy), absolutely zero programming (he cries me a little heart).
the problem that I have at this moment is that I am very fought on which is the best way to go given my situation.
My heart tells me to keep alive all the skills I've learned so far and put them together somehow (I don't know if there is even such a varied role/carrier, project manager? production manager? ).
The brain tells me to choose something to specialize once and for all, since time passes and I have to become a professional in something before it is too late.
I could perfect my skills with the cad, more or less I can do everything apart from the surfaces I absolutely know nothing about. I could learn how to make renderings good of what drawing (would be cool).
I would also miss a thorough study of mechanical manuals to bring me as much as possible with those who studied pure mechanics.
I could go back and deepen the programming c and maybe add programming pc type c# or python or c++.
I could totally change and become a web programmer or something, I don't think I'd mind even this way.
I don't know which way to choose and I don't even know how to realize each one of them. If I could learn everything, I'm attracted to what I don't know and don't know.
But I also have a great fear of being stuck in this work (which I still like, but I have the impression that it becomes less and less stimulant) or always being what little knows about everything.
In addition to knowing little about everything makes your life difficult at work since it comes consequently to lack experience and quality in the most specific activities.
if someone has arrived here deserves a nice beer offer, if no one has arrived here or does not know how to help me patience I will use this flow of consciousness to reorder ideas.