Industrial Automation Puns

Hi everyone,

maybe this is not the right place to ask this question but lets see :)

I've been in industrial automation for 8 years now straight out of uni. Various PCS systems, mostly Siemens PLCs (300, 400, 1500), a lot of electrical troubleshooting, a lot of commissionings, plannings etc. It is an interesting, challenging, rewarding (money wise) job where you need to balance your personal life and work life. Out of 8 years of my work career I've probably spent 3.5 years at commissionigs all over the world. This is the main reason I want to give it up.

There are probably a lot of people like me, so what do you think is the best cereer option after industrial automation? I've been thinking about swithing to "normal" software engineering. I always liked cpp, c, python but I'm nowhere near senior level.

Thanks for your replies. Cheers :)

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the responses. As someone mentioned, I could go to project management, there is a possibility in the current company but I don't like that type of work.

Being an automation engineer in a single plant is an option too, but the people I know that do that are not so satisfied with the pay.

Only option that would satisfy me would probably be joining an machine OEM as an engineer. Or going for software development as mentioned above.

Cheers :)

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