I work repairing production tools in the electronics industry and my job has the word "engineer" in the title, although I have no degree or high school diploma (but I don't advertise that on my resume. In my teens and 20's I just listed my class year and school on my resume, and no one but the feds or universities will actually check your education credentials back to high school, but now I just don't even list my high school because I'm over 30 and no one cares).
I got the job by having some relevant experience gained by selling my soul.
A normal day for me is waking up like fifteen minutes before I clock in, checking my phone to see if I got overnight messages that something broke, showering, playing video games, and posting until the end of the day, then sending out an email telling everyone that nothing's broken. If something breaks, then I travel to the customer site and work until it's fixed or until the end of my contracted on call time (a few hours later than normal workday end time), continuing work the next morning until it's fixed (minus meal times and breaks).
I'm hourly, so I get overtime, and I would absolutely quit before giving up overtime pay. Some weeks I max out overtime (so, 60 hours), but most of the time I'm posting in my underwear.
I work repairing production tools in the electronics industry and my job has the word "engineer" in the title, although I have no degree or high school diploma (but I don't advertise that on my resume. In my teens and 20's I just listed my class year and school on my resume, and no one but the feds or universities will actually check your education credentials back to high school, but now I just don't even list my high school because I'm over 30 and no one cares).
I got the job by having some relevant experience gained by selling my soul.
A normal day for me is waking up like fifteen minutes before I clock in, checking my phone to see if I got overnight messages that something broke, showering, playing video games, and posting until the end of the day, then sending out an email telling everyone that nothing's broken. If something breaks, then I travel to the customer site and work until it's fixed or until the end of my contracted on call time (a few hours later than normal workday end time), continuing work the next morning until it's fixed (minus meal times and breaks).
I'm hourly, so I get overtime, and I would absolutely quit before giving up overtime pay. Some weeks I max out overtime (so, 60 hours), but most of the time I'm posting in my underwear.