This is great info!!! Hi! I saw you during vidIQ’s live feed today and wanted to stop by and show my support as a fellow RU-vidr who loves the advice and tips Rob, Sean, Dan, and Ben provide us. I hope to see more of you online soon as we all grow together!
Thank you Chris! I am 29 and making a shift in my career by going to an engineering program. I am really appreciating your videos and I think your presenting skills are improving a lot with each video. I am curious about the opportunities for engineering consultants to support themselves completely though remote work. I am hoping I can eliminate commuting from my life and visit many different cities while I work. It certainly seems to be possible for software engineers but I am more interested in mechanical and electrical engineering. Do you think it would be possible to make a living working remotely in these fields?
Hi Lars, thank you for your encouragement. A lot of the value of a consulting engineer is to help other people solve their problems - to help define the problem that they have and then apply your knowledge to create a solution for them. I've found it hard to work remotely without being able to discuss problems with people in person, particularly where I can draw diagrams and drawings to show a solution. However this is a great opportunity to be getting into remote work with so many people now accustomed to it. Be prepared for discussions that will happen in your team's or your client's timezones however. Which country are you in now, and where would you like to explore?
@@engineeredupgrade I really appreciate your advice. I live in Sweden now and am quite content to stay in Europe for work and then go to other continents during my time off. I really want to see Australia too of course :) One thing I'm curious about is how much time I should spend as an employee before I take the leap and become a consultant. I plan to do a lot of networking during the university program and to focus most of my university projects on one area of engineering, so I'm thinking I might be able to start working as a consultant as soon as I finish my degree if I am able to display expertise in a very specific area. Would it be possible for instance to focus on 3d-printing during my time at university and then start out as a 3d-printing consultant and learn the skills that I would need to give advice in other fields through those jobs?
