Chad liked the fact that there were different industries he could work in as well as a great variety of different jobs one could have with just one employer if one was to choose variety. One could also see and live in many parts of the world by transferring around with an employer too. The combinations and opportunities are endless if you think about it long enough and do a lot of investigating. He could also see that if a guy wanted to do just one thing for the rest of his career like, be a boiler operator one could do that too.

Chad liked the fact that one could get out of school and slide into a high paying job almost instantaneously because employers and the school would line students up with summer jobs and work experience jobs that turned into full time jobs things worked out. The work experience was part of his schooling so he basically got paid for going to some part of his schooling.

Chad is employed with a large multi-national company these days and finds it to be right for him for the moment. He likes the fact that he works independently in his unit and also has the opportunity to team up with others Stationary Engineers in other work units within the plant to work on other projects.

Chad says he had no student loans to payback like his University buddies had to do. And we know student loans often are in the tens of thousands of dollars. He sees many of his friends that chose to go to university and now have their degrees don’t have jobs in their chosen fields like he is fortunate enough to have acquired for himself.

Chad’s kind of annoyed with the school career and guidance counseling system. No one in the academic department or the trades departments ever suggested Power Engineering as a career to him. In fact like most schools, they didn’t even know the first thing about Power Engineering. Pretty sad. And very fortunate that Chad did find out about it from somebody.

Since Chad got on full time with the large multinational in 2001 he has paid off a new car he bought in 1999, furnished his apartment with all new furniture including a big screen TV, an entertainment center, an expensive and professionally installed stereo for his car, and a new Honda all-terrain-vehicle. He is only 22 years of age yet, he is investing for his retirement and saving for a house that he figures he may buy sometime next year. Not bad!