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  1. knight185

    Is Engineering right for me?

    Maybe the kind of job you have is wrong for you, not engineering. I was working in a power plant for 18 months learning the ropes of performance engineering, mostly boiler combustion and tuning, before I was asked to take on a big overhaul project (steam turbine overhaul). Althought I didn't...
  2. knight185

    Field Engineering

    The 120 mile commutes took place from 2007 to 2010. Like I said, my job transferred as part of a rotating assignmeny program. The plant was far from where my work had her part-time job and her college, so I chose to stay in a city that was 60 miles from the plant to make it easy on my wife...
  3. knight185

    Field Engineering

    My wife's philosophy does not dictate our money management. It is just an example of our different approach. The big trouble happened after we got married. First, my income took a huge medical premium hit when going from Single to Married to Family. Due to a job location change (internal...
  4. knight185

    Field Engineering

    Can't get much Lower cost than where I live. I have a 3 bedroom house with three levels of livable space for $70,000. I have been an engineer for 6 years and make between $80,000 and $90,000 per year. Started out much lower. I thought that was a decent salary. Not sure which industry would...
  5. knight185

    Field Engineering

    Travel for my wife is out of the question. And I'm sure some locations would be totally off-limits. One field engineer I know was building a power plant in South America. He said his hotel is surrounded by a wall and armed guards and armed guards transport the engineers to and from the job...
  6. knight185

    Field Engineering

    The loss of friends wouldn't be an issue. I'm a big-time introvert and have always kind of been a loner. I actually went through 5 years of college without making any strong friendships. I had applied for a field job while in college but my first offer was not in the field, but it was in an...
  7. knight185

    Field Engineering

    Thanks for the good information. The one major issue for me is that I am indeed married and have a 4 year old son (I'm 29 years old). My wife always jokes around and says that if I made enough money that would allow her to not work, then I can go in the field for as long as I want. My...
  8. knight185

    Field Engineering

    Over the past couple of years I have gotten several calls/emails from recruiters asking about field engineering jobs for steam turbines, combustion turbines, generators. Is there a huge demand right now for field engineers in this field? It seems so. Despite the seemingly high demand, some field...
  9. knight185

    Field Engineering

    Over the past couple of years I have gotten several calls/emails from recruiters asking about field engineering jobs for steam turbines, combustion turbines, generators. Is there a huge demand right now for field engineers in this field? It seems so. Despite the seemingly high demand, some...
  10. knight185

    Movement of Buried Water Piping

    The only restraints on the outside of the joint were rods that were welded together, but no kind of device that could really keep a closing force on the mechanical joint. The other thing I wonder about is the inside diameter of the HDPE piping. My facility replaces a lot of old steel piping...
  11. knight185

    Movement of Buried Water Piping

    Don't have any sketches or photos handy at the moment but you have 12" HDPE Pipe---12x24---Reducer---24" Valve---24" Ductile Iron Pipe. Mechanical joints are used to connect everything together. The joint between the valve and the iron pipe appeared to be okay. The joint between the valve and...
  12. knight185

    Movement of Buried Water Piping

    At my plant we have underground raw water piping. The original piping is ductile iron. At one area the 24” header connects to a valve and then a reducer connects the other side of the valve to a 12” header. Several months ago we replaced the original 12” header with HDPE pipe. The HDPE pipe...
  13. knight185

    Salary question !

    With 5 years in the engineering field I make in the upper $70k. When I first started I made in the low 50k range. I don't expect another increase in salary like that in such a short period of time.
  14. knight185

    Engineer to Management

    All of the technical managers that I have worked with used to be engineers. Some have spent more years in engineering than others but most of them know what it takes to get a job done. However, even they are being held accountable by corporate executives whose primary job is to make the...
  15. knight185

    Engineer to Management

    There are plenty of engineers at the plant where I work who have no interest in being in management, and they aren't shy about saying so. Several have been approached before with promotions and have turned them down. Some have taken promotions and have expressed missing the technical work. As...
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