Looking to transition to another company
Looking for another place has been an interesting challenge. How do you leave graciously, evaluating what your true skills are, are those skills on your resume truly skills that can be replicated in another organization, etc.
Even updating my Linkedin and resume has been a consumption of time--I had to pay someone $134 to restructure and give it more glitz. Hopefully I'm tooting a horn that doesn't sound..
It's weird because when you consider moving on from where you are now, you start micro analyze all the actions you took, the skills that you think you have, and the skills that you think you should sharpen before an interview.
The issue is that skills, especially technical skills, cannot be sharpened within weeks. They need years.
All I have been thinking about as of late are the hard skills I've learned over the years and I do genuinely feel excited about the potential of what value I can bring--I just need a chance or opportunity.
Right now, I am eyeing to work for ADB likely as a consultant. I suppose it makes sense since I indirectly know the organization better than outsiders, and also because I am assuming that the pay will be better. This pay has to reflect the value I will bring and the maintenance for the equipment I currently have. It is not cheap to get good at your craft. There is a limit to digging yourself in a financial hole while trying to attain a certain level in one's craftwork.
I am now calling myself a Reliability and Condition Monitoring Specialist. I do like this idea of being a Specialist. It sounds like I can do something that no else is likely about to replicate. Or at the least, there are very few who can perform those tasks.
I do hope that whatever is written here is true, or will become true in not the too distant future.
One thing that I am proud of is being able to get all these certificates. I remember when I was sitting in our little in CCP Paper Mill and writing down all the knowledge that I wanted to acquire. I bought many books, studied different technologies and methodologies, and tried to immerse myself in the Engineering and Reliability world, enough so that even a little would be absorbed in my head. And for those topics that I was too premature to learn would later down the line be waiting for me until I did mature. Those things happened, and this is how I learn through persistence. I suppose this is really what I wanted to do in the first place..
I just have to been thankful for the opportunities that I had, or the opportunities that I had to somehow manifest.
There is too much in the realm of reliability that it would take decades upon decades to learn. But since I don't have that, I have to make time with day by day effort. I have the right situation, hopefully the right mindset, and if it is true, the built up fortune to execute the plan to become an upper class Reliability practitioner.
