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Well, besides specialization - you do have 2x the jobs to choose from. And if one job area becomes weaker or goes away, the other can be your direction out wit

• reaperman 2y ago
  One of my points is that you only have 2x jobs to choose from during a certain window after you graduate. If the well you choose dries up after 8 years, many companies will no longer consider you for those same other roles that you once turned down. I have experience in a number of disparate industries. But I can’t get jobs in fields I have years of experience in, because my resume doesn't have anything relevant to them in the past 5-10 years. I went to school for Chemical Engineering and worked in chemical plants as an operational/improvement/projects plant engineer, working closely with plant operators, technicians, and construction crews, intimate knowledge of the “dirty stuff” - steels, pumps, motors, boilers, flares, reactors, tanks, etc. But the only jobs I’d be able to get at chemical companies today would be ones where the intersection of my chemical engineering training and more recent software engineering experience is specifically valued (desk work). I wouldn’t be able to land a plant engineer role at a chemical plant, even though I know it very well - no one will hire me to work with the tradesmen anymore. At some point, the old wells you didn’t keep drinking from just dry up.