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You're very likely a victim of age discrimination. Try updating your resume to only include the last 10 to 15 years worth of positions, remove the date of college graduation if present, if you're using a dated email server (yahoo or hotmail or such) start a gmail account. If you have a lot of...

That's their choice. Your choice is to find someplace willing to pay you and treat you 100% as an engineer. Why would you want to do and get paid for design work, when you could get paid for engineering work? That's not making the most of your time.

May I ask how old you are? Pardon me, and apologies if that's too personal for the internet. How long ago was this?

So there is a good chance I'll be offered a "contract" position through a staffing agency. This would be a W2 type employment, not 1099. As I've never held this form of employment before I thought I'd ask for any wisdom that could be passed along from more experienced individuals. Things I'm...

I suppose not even that because they can just walk you out, but you do get health coverage.

Ok, I believe I understand. It's a binding contract. So that means if they let you go before the end of the agreed period, they still owe you your full compensation, correct?

"Contract Engineer" is a term that gets tossed around a lot, and, as I understand it, it's supposed to be when you're a professional engineer and you contract with a customer to perform particular task, and a particular time frame. It's like one business contracting with another. To not finish...

I've been keeping an eye on the engineering market in my area, and this seems so be a trend for some of the big employers. Temporary employment for average pay (not big money like you hear about contract engineers getting), and no health coverage. Usually through an agency. I understand big...

@ ScottyUK - Does your company have no on-boarding or training procedures? Why would you wait so long for the "perfect" candidate instead of taking the best presented and improving them?

And if you have special dietary requirements, you often can't even eat what's served and have to bring your own food anyways. yeah, they suck.

"If you've got 12 guys working four different projects simultaneously" Four guys each working 12 different projects simultaneously, would be closer to reality for the places I've worked. And in some saying "4 guys" would be stretching the truth.

"You can get most of the punch you'd get from Microsoft Project or Primavera by simply sitting your engineers in a room, drawing up a critical path diagram on a whiteboard, assigning "days" to each task, precedents, antecedents, identifying the critical path in a different colored marker, and...

Sorry if I gave the wrong impression, I'm not a manager, and have no scheduling authority. Maybe that's why the fellow who deleted his post found it so humorous. I'm just wondering if there is an accepted format, because they just seem to wing it most of the time. Sandcounter: Sounds like a...

Is there a management bible out there somewhere that gives guidelines for how many engineers are required for a particular sized project? For that matter how is project "size" determined? The required completion date must be in there somewhere as well I expect. Is this all from the experience...

Yes, I agreed with that.

Create new things, but not how to schedule a manufacturing trials in a company that already has a procedure. That procedure should be communicated to new hires and followed by all departments. Likewise, if the company has establish calculations they want to be used, the new hire should be...

The more I think about it, "trial by fire", and "sink or swim" seems more like code for lazy engineering management. For what you believe should have been learned in school, give a simple test during the interview process. For knowledge that would be unique to your company or field, and...

I think ash060's post is pretty accurate. I also think mentoring at most places as been replaced by "Lean", and everyone is so busy they don't have a lot of time to help, less their projects suffer. On top of that, as standard procedures change, documentation isn't kept current, or procedures...

So you're going to accept less money, to get more engineering experience, to be a better value to your employer, so you can make more money? What's the job stability like in your current position? If it's good, I'd stay put, and find classes or courses to increase your engineering worth...

Thanks! I'll look into that more.