[PSUBS-MAILIST] Career advice

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An M.E. diploma from Penn State is a pretty nice arrow to have in your quiver. Being shop savvy is a handy thing, too. When you start flooding the web with resumes, think about the sub-categories. ROVs are about half vendor supplied component packages (manipulators, power packs, thrusters, buoyancy packages, etc. are rarely built in-house). There are lots of ways to skin that particular cat. If, on the other hand, you are interested in practical application and job specificity, think about the ROV pilot's school in Houston, or a jr. engineer job at somewhere like WHOI or MBARI. I'd send a resume to Triton, too. And Nuytco. Of course, the real deal is to get to work somewhere so you can limber up those well educated engineering muscles. Experience in your specialty counts. Any experience.You'll be way past that "I'm going to be an M.E. thing." You'll BE one, and that is a very cool thing, indeed. I'm jealous.
Best of luck,
Vance Bradley




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I have found besides owning your own business in the underwater industry, it is all bout who you know. I would recommend doing lots and lots of networking. Right now the oil industry is way down meaning diving jobs are lacking, but there are other fields for sure. Going to conventions and getting your name out there is a great way to start. Hopefully the oil industry will pick up and with all the people who left diving there will be an abundance of jobs. You can always look into the south China sea and work for China with all the underwater precious metal mining, but there is a bit of a scary factor there. 

Thank you,
Scott Waters 

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>  From: River Dolfi via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
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>  Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Career advice
>  Sent: Dec 18 '16 16:07
>  
>  Hey everyone, my name is River Dolfi, for those who didn't meet me at
>  the last convention, have been reading this forum for almost 2 years
>  now and have been interested in building my own sub for many years
>  before that.
>  
>  I will be graduating soon with a mechanical engineering degree from
>  Penn State, and I'm looking for a career after graduation. I'd love to
>  get paid doing junior engineering work on subs, or ROV's, ADS's, AUV's
>  and the like.
>  
>  I know several psubbers are professionals in the field, or have
>  connections that do. Does anyone have any advice on how to get my foot
>  in the door?
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