- Location
- Lincolnshire
Well, engineering at university was pretty dry to be honest. Nothing but applied maths really. I started my career in industry in 1990 and finished it in 2005. Over that time my salary went from £10k to £23k as a full time employee of a multinational. Was senior engineer grade and chartered but still level pegging with a refuse collector on salary. To improve my salary I would have had to move into a management role. I had to move all over the country and live in some pretty rough places absolutely clogged with traffic.
I’d rather be farming anyway, but feel my generation have kind of messed up, or was it the generation before us.
It all went wrong from the moment Mrs T said that the city traders were the new “technologists” or whatever it was. Of the 70 engineering graduates who graduated with me, only 5 of us went into industry which was really struggling at the time with mass redundancies and closures.
The government decided in 1980 that it was no longer really interested in manufacturing or primary industries and so here we are today.
TBH I feel like I ought to open a factory and design and make something to make a positive contribution to society but the U.K. is quite hostile that kind of thing in terms of planning regulations etc. Don’t know. We are in a funny old place at the minute.
I’d rather be farming anyway, but feel my generation have kind of messed up, or was it the generation before us.
It all went wrong from the moment Mrs T said that the city traders were the new “technologists” or whatever it was. Of the 70 engineering graduates who graduated with me, only 5 of us went into industry which was really struggling at the time with mass redundancies and closures.
The government decided in 1980 that it was no longer really interested in manufacturing or primary industries and so here we are today.
TBH I feel like I ought to open a factory and design and make something to make a positive contribution to society but the U.K. is quite hostile that kind of thing in terms of planning regulations etc. Don’t know. We are in a funny old place at the minute.