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Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

(OP)
Hi,

if i have a job offer in a shop where you only do variant work, would that be detrimental to my future career?
By variant work i mean the following (actually there are two offers):
- smaller heat exchangers design. no calcs, only design of mostly tube-fin HE. (http://elletradiator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/0...) this can be and it is partly accomplished by a master sketch template assembly. they have said that you do ~30 small projects in a day (by modifying a template of course).
- large bearing and gear design. there is some statics here and calcs, use of KISSSOFT for gears calculation, but the cad can also be driven from a couple of templates i'd say.

will that kind of work prevent me to work in the automotive industry for example, when i get tired of doing it? or plastic injection tool design for example (an area that also interests me, but i have no job offers due to the bad economy). i am 30, BS ME, if it matters.

there is also a third option, similar to #1, but much more broad (pressure vessel etc. acc. to AD 2000 Merkblatter), but i've heard that the intrapersonal relations are really bad in that company.

RE: Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

Hi

Are you working at the moment?
If your not working at present then I would take the job you want the most, if your in employment already then keep looking if the offers you have had don't appeal.

RE: Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

(OP)
no, i've been fired due to bad outlook for the company (verifiable from their yearly reports).
if possible, i will take the gear design job, if not that, the HE job, if possible.

i'm just afraid that x years in that company will alienate me from a mold tool designer position and by that from the car industry altogether (more or less, at least as a design eng).
the original plan was a couple of years as a mold designer in a auto supplier company, then something better like component designer etc.

RE: Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

Hi

Well its easier to get another job while your in a job if you see what I mean.
Also think how detrimental a lengthy spell of unemployment might be.

desertfox

RE: Variant engineering detrimental for future career?

(OP)
thanks.

in the end i got here:

- large bearing and gear design. there is some statics here and calcs, use of KISSSOFT for gears calculation, but the cad can also be driven from a couple of templates i'd say.

not the best, but not far from it.
i will also study at home on statics and dynamics again.

too bad i didn't get the mold job though.

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