Saturn_Europa1
Member
Hi Everyone,
I am looking for some career advice. I work as a plant electrician at a municipal water plant. I also do some very basic programming and troubleshooting on AB PLCs and SCADA systems. I am starting to learn more about PLC programming and really enjoy it. I am taking classes on the side. I am pretty young and have at least 30 more years left in my career. To be very frank, I make in the high $50,000 dollar range with about $6,000 a year in overtime, plus very good benefits. But I am pretty much topped out.
From a purely financial standpoint would it be worth going back to school and making a career jump? I actually enjoy working on PLC problems more then pulling wire and running conduit. But I want to be fully informed before I start investing a lot of time in courses.
Most job postings do not list wages and I really have no clue what a entry level automation engineer/ plc programmer makes.
Thanks for you time.
I am looking for some career advice. I work as a plant electrician at a municipal water plant. I also do some very basic programming and troubleshooting on AB PLCs and SCADA systems. I am starting to learn more about PLC programming and really enjoy it. I am taking classes on the side. I am pretty young and have at least 30 more years left in my career. To be very frank, I make in the high $50,000 dollar range with about $6,000 a year in overtime, plus very good benefits. But I am pretty much topped out.
From a purely financial standpoint would it be worth going back to school and making a career jump? I actually enjoy working on PLC problems more then pulling wire and running conduit. But I want to be fully informed before I start investing a lot of time in courses.
Most job postings do not list wages and I really have no clue what a entry level automation engineer/ plc programmer makes.
Thanks for you time.