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Hell yeah I'm down I appreciate the tip I'll make one in the next few weeks

Yeah, I have a little bit of experience with the job hunt. I’m happy to help if you find me on LinkedIn. It can be a bit intimidating at first especially if you don’t have any experience, but I’ve never met anyone that wasn’t able to find something talk to quite a few people on here. One took a little while to find his first job, but it was just like two months or something after his degree.

@@gregroche7323 i added you, thank you.

Try applying for panel builder maintenance technician & lower paying electrical technician jobs

If you want, you can find me on LinkedIn I’m happy to help.

@@gregroche7323 yeah can’t even get maintenance tech positions to look at me. Ok I’ll search you on LinkedIn.

@@gregroche7323 says you are outside of my network can’t add you

Hey, I don’t see it. Are you sure you sent it to the right Greg Roche?

Yeah there's really not any big negatives let's see some other ones are: almost half the jobs out there are for an off shift and if you don't have a lot of experience you might get stuck in one of those jobs. A lot of times you'll end up working with people that really aren't that good with their job but don't want other people to know it so they might get an attitude towards you if you make them look bad. You do have a pretty big responsibility working on automated systems so there's always the potential that you make a big mistake and shut down operations for a day or so (I've seen it happen thank God I've never done it). Since you're working in an industrial setting it's possible that you'll have to work around chemicals or melted metal, also there is a much higher risk for injury than an office job.

That is pretty nutty congratulations I'm really happy for you. Some people don't really understand how much of a shortage there is right now anyways I'm sure you'll do great if you're good at doing industrial maintenance. If you ever have any questions find me on LinkedIn send me a message and I'll answer as fast as I can I'm really happy for you

Honestly the fact that you're an i&e mechanic makes it sound like you're not even going to have much of an issue I would have to guess. Just make sure you understand ladder logic, have a base knowledge of what vfds are know all the basics of electrical theory like how to check fuses stuff like that hopefully you're up to date on reading schematics and understand the difference between like 4 to 20 and 0 to 10 v signals. If you've been fixing machines for 3 and 1/2 years I'm sure you'll be a rockstar congratulations man that's awesome

@@gregroche7323 thank you sir yeah where I'm currently at most of our schematics are useless because of changes that weren't updated. So plenty of tracing wiring and checking physical issues out but I'm ready for a change to have resources lol

Yeah I feel that that's pretty much what my first instrumentation electrical tech job was.. we had a lot of automated systems that were out of date and not updated. I would say half of our panels didn't even have any schematics it's a great learning opportunity I'm sure you'll be great did you start the job yet? By the way I'm always looking for new video ideas I actually just got monetized which is pretty cool I've made $5 in the last 4 days LOL for my TH-cam channel

@@gregroche7323 I start on the 28th from what I've heard talking to people that work there everything has schematics and plenty of parts to work with. Yeah I came across your videos and will continue to watch them as I see them upload it's helpful sir

No problem I'm always open to suggestions for other videos I appreciate the comment

Yeah, what state are you in? I bet you could get like 10 job offers

If you want to shoot me a message on LinkedIn, I’ll help you find them. This might sound strange, but it’s actually kind of hard finding these jobs, they use a lot of different job titles. You always have to look at job descriptions.

That is very true, specially in the U.S. with this career path. Fortunately there is a shortage of well versed maintenance personnel so it’s not too difficult finding a way to get a foot in the door

Thanks brotha

Appreciate the comment. I’m always looking for feedback and video ideas. Thanks for watching.

Means a lot, thank you. Question- do you like this style of video? By that I mean a quick tutorial with screen shots to back up the dialogue.. I appreciate the input

I really appreciate the video idea but I can’t because I’ve never done that lol. There’s a lot of different skills that go to instrumentation. I’ve never done that have, however, calibrated I/p and E/P transducers. That’s a device that regulates pressure based off a voltage or current input. Let me know if you’re interested in that I do not have any but I can still make a video about how to do the calibration

generally speaking, your I/P or E/P would supply control pressure to a control valve, which I have never taken apart. Everywhere that I have worked, they had a different department that would service the control valves.

Oh dang it this is Vinny lol I thought you were student. How are you Vinny good to hear from you are you still working in Belle Glade?

Also, I’ve kind of stayed in touch with Zach. I think he’s doing very well. It’s really nice to hear from you.

Yea I have a video about that topic check out my channel. You are correct the 1st job can be challenging. I keep in touch with some people on my channel, I don’t think I’ve spoke with anyone that couldn’t find a good job eventually. A few guys did struggle a bit at 1st. Bottom line is I would suggest broadening you horizons while looking for the 1st job.. look at maintenance technician jobs, look at anything that will offer relevant experience. There are some operator jobs as well that can provide the experience needed. Check out my other video on that topic, I have some good tips on there

Hey buddy, I would definitely go with the second one that’s just me. Realistically electronics assembly is just isn’t that common these days. Definitely have trouble finding people with real calibration experience even though it’s generally pretty simple stuff it’s nice to be able to go to the interview and say yeah, I’ve calibrated that type of sensor before.

I lifted wayyyy too many at the one job😂

@@gregroche7323 hey i work in an office im working on getting my I&E associates i cant wait to get off my a** and moving around and off the computer

Hey, that’s actually a great question… A lot of contactors will not disconnect the circuit when there is a trip. The big square D motor starters/contactors remain intact during an overload. There’s just an overload auxiliary contact on the side. That’s used to interrupt the start circuit now that I think about it I’m actually not certain, if the Allen Bradley overload automatically interrupts a circuit. I do not think it does but I am doubting myself now. I’m a little busy right now I might look into that later or if you have time Google it and post your findings here I’m pretty sure the legs of the contactor remain closed, even during an overload, but on this model they might open automatically

Hey I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping up with my comments lately I apologize for that. Did you take the test how did it go? Can you share information with us? If I had to guess I would say you're going to need to know how to read schematics just with general symbols and also understand ladder logic. It's pretty common to see some questions about how of vfd works or more specifically what is a vfd. You should probably understand common analog signals there's 4 to 20 milliamp signals as well as 0 to 10 volt signals which are less common industrial settings. Understand ohm's law. Understand what a short circuit is. Fact that it's an apprentice position tells me they're probably not going to expect a lot from you and you most likely have the job if you have the interview at least that's how it was for my apprenticeship. It might be wise to know the common types of instrumentation.. the most common field devices are rtds thermocouples and pressure transmitters also understand the difference between sensor and a switch I could probably go on but that's a good place to start

@@gregroche7323 This is all very helpful and will learn about some of these concepts this week. Now, I haven't taken the written exam however yet (week from today) I did learn the written exam is on Basic Electrical Theory so I have turned my attention to Joe Robinson and Jason Gibson videos. If I pass the written then I take the hands on test. then if I pass that, I get an interview which is the final stage.

@@gregroche7323 Thanks for getting back to me Greg. I've taken note of your points. I did learn the written test which is a week from today will be on basic electrical theory. If I pass this then they have me take a hands on test two weeks later, if I pass that I get an interview and then hopefully the job. I've been watching Joe Robinson & Jason Gibson videos to brush up on my basic electrical knowledge.

@@nuhbellos3794 that’s awesome good for you. I started my instrumentation technician Internship back in 2017. (Back then it was 18/hr/ 24 hrs a week, techs were making 55-75k) They expected almost nothing from me. I bet you’ll be more about personalities than anything that’s good at you’re getting prepared but just try to be nice and have fun with it. Best of luck.

Thats how i was taught too

Hey thank you for commenting I really apologize for not reading this sooner. Personally I prefer instrumentation just because it's sort of a higher level job than mechanical. That being said it would probably be a little bit easier to get the first mechanical job with the degree and no experience, the pay for mechanical industrial maintenance is slightly lower than instrumentation but you can expect to make between 60 to 100K in either of them. I enjoy instrumentation and controls because there's a little bit more technology and it can be a little bit more challenging mentally than mechanical. I would push the issue a little bit with the people that run your degree specifically some of the professors or maybe the program share and see what they can do about helping you find a job or if they can get you placed into some sort of training program that's very important to get a little bit of experience to pair with your degree. All that being said I would go for instrumentation all day it's a super awesome career find me on LinkedIn if you have any questions

Well there's a lot less math at the technician level than the engineering level you will need to know algebra and a little bit of trigonometry which it actually is pretty simple believe it or not. In the field you don't use math very often sometimes you have to use a little bit when you're figuring out like calibration tolerances and stuff like that. It's a really problem solving based career so if you're at least somewhat good at solving problems you should be good to go