By the forum's standards I'm probably wet behind the ears. I started in the business in 1996 while still in high school, on the board, learned from an old Automatic employee, Richard Coustillac. He worked in the same office Clyde Wood wrote the hydraulics book in. From then to now I've had a couple years out for a career change, and a year or so of unemployment, so probably somewhere nearing 14 years of experience. I got my level IV shortly after I hit 10 years. My experience has been that the business has transitioned somewhat to young CAD jockeys such as I was being a commodity that comes and goes with the economy (economy gets bad they're last in first out and they find a new direction). Also big sales commisions, which seem to be a bygone perk drew a lot of young "hotshots" out of design up until relatively recently at least. And lastly I think "design management" and "training" didn't keep up for a number of reasons so a lot of "line and circle drawers" came and w ent that never learned enough to be an autonomous designer or break into other areas of the business. But I'm sure other markets are different? Mike Morey, SET, CFPS Sprinkler Designer BMW Constructors, Inc. O: 317.651.0596 | C: 317.586.8111 www.bmwc.com <http://www.bmwc.com/>
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Mon 7/22/2013 10:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: longevity in business - list participants List: Recent comments have left me wondering: Are participants on forum skewed towards the multi-decade experience vs. relatively new to the business? Does this reflect design offices? In the past was there some marked expansion in sprinkler business, then leveling off, with cyclical ups and downs, but not net increase? bv _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
