Re: Ken McWilliams how goes the job search??~~~~
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Posted by Ken McWilliams on September 16, 1998 at 18:57:13:
In Reply to: Ken McWilliams how goes the job search??~~~~ posted by Bill OH on September 16, 1998 at 12:29:09:
Thanks, Bill for your concern. I interviewed at a GM plant in Dayton Tuesday a week ago for a position as a contract Manufacturing Engineer. They weren't interested and felt that I was over qualified and it was a job that would consume 80% of the time on the floor making assembly line improvements. I've listed with several recruiting firms in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas. The newspapers are full of good engineering positions, but I would have to relocate which isn't an option for now. I was with Scitex Digital Printing for 15 years who recently went through a downsizing due to a down-turn in business severing 58 of us. I was given a very nice severance package with salary continuation for several months and paid health/medical. Getting a new job isn't a crisis, but it leaves a big unknown in my life and family which makes it hard to plan. Fortunately, the farm and both houses are paid off and my '98 Ford F-250 will be paid off next month. I think the job market is going to get tight in the next few months. I'm considering contract engineering positions (temporary designers, engineers etc.), because many companies are controlling their headcount in personnel, but will use temporary people indefinitely. When I learned of the job loss, I told my wife that I may consider a temporary job in Florida or Texas for the winter and let the kids and grandkids watch the farm and horses. Maybe I'm looking at a lifestyle change. I don't mean to be flippant about the seriousness of unemployment, but my life has been well blessed, and if we really pulled in the expenditures we could live quite a long while without a job. BUT I JUST WANNA WORK. It meets a guy-thing need for me. I've been restoring my CASE 420B tractor/loader/backhoe. I just got the tractor painted yesterday and the front loader last week. I'm about to remount the loader and then start on the backhoe, but these job interviews interfere with continuity of time spent on the project. Ken McWilliams
Dayton, Ohio
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