carwashblues
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Its starting to dawn on me in aint about the hardware anymore.
Is PLC programming a last bastion of sorts for programmers? I say that because there are a lot of outsourced programmers. My first impression of ladder logic and PLCs was "Wow GUI based programming couldnt be much simpler" and given the PLCs rather simple scanning I wouldnt have guessed there was such a demand.
So wheres the big bucks?
Near as I can tell its "process engineering"
Are process engineers driving beemers while outsourced computer science majors who know FORTRAN and such are eating top ramen in their moms basement?lol.
Seriously, from my job search the maint techs pay and bennies arent too bad, but I cant help but notice that the process engineering style jobs are in demand even in the USA where factories are supposedly in demise.
Abroad, given emerging markets and all, they will fly you in and set you up in style it seems for some jobs. I suppose they cant find an Indian guy to do it for 18K a year. But for how long?
Well Im on the outside looking in, but how do you guys see the job market and trends unfolding. I was somewhat alarmed that PLCs can go online, I was concerned that this could lead to eventual outsourcing to another tech support guy in India, Are Process engineers jobs safe in 10 years?
Is PLC programming a last bastion of sorts for programmers? I say that because there are a lot of outsourced programmers. My first impression of ladder logic and PLCs was "Wow GUI based programming couldnt be much simpler" and given the PLCs rather simple scanning I wouldnt have guessed there was such a demand.
So wheres the big bucks?
Near as I can tell its "process engineering"
Are process engineers driving beemers while outsourced computer science majors who know FORTRAN and such are eating top ramen in their moms basement?lol.
Seriously, from my job search the maint techs pay and bennies arent too bad, but I cant help but notice that the process engineering style jobs are in demand even in the USA where factories are supposedly in demise.
Abroad, given emerging markets and all, they will fly you in and set you up in style it seems for some jobs. I suppose they cant find an Indian guy to do it for 18K a year. But for how long?
Well Im on the outside looking in, but how do you guys see the job market and trends unfolding. I was somewhat alarmed that PLCs can go online, I was concerned that this could lead to eventual outsourcing to another tech support guy in India, Are Process engineers jobs safe in 10 years?