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Feb. 23rd, 2020 10:20 amPretty hellish week at work. I've been overworked for months, and the new engineer who's been ineptly assisting me for the past nine months or so put in his notice, so I'm going to be even more overworked going forward, as well as presumably having to train his replacement. This came to a head on Friday with an important customer needing to see progress on a system retrofit we're behind on, and I was missing some of the critical parts to make that happen. So I was up until 1AM Thursday night, and then I was up at 5AM Friday morning to make sure the assembly showed sufficient progress for the customer. (To positive reviews, apparently, but I skipped out before the customer showed up, to go deal with other projects in crisis.) And then Shabbos I basically slept through.
This can't continue. I am feeling pretty burnt out as it is, if help doesn't arrive soon I'm not going to survive. (Though on the other hand, I came in this Sunday morning to work in a less distracted mode and catch up on things, and I am really enjoying myself. Design work is fun! So I can hold on for some amount of time, there are still good things about this job.)
Anyone know how to write a mid-career engineer's resume? The resume I have right now is years out of date, and my work history is one job worked since I graduated from college, for the past thirteen years, plus a couple college internships. I have done loads of cool and impressive stuff at this job, but the details are what makes them impressive. I don't know how to talk about my work briefly in a way that doesn't seem as if I'm just repeating the same thing over and over again: Used processes X, Y, and Z to design Awesome System Q. Used processes X, Y and Z to design Awesome System R. Used processes X, Y and Z to design Awesome System S. If you know what makes System Q awesome and different than System R, you'll think I'm impressive, but I want a resume that can be shopped to a broader array of places, so I need to think about how to display the more broadly applicable skillsets I've developed.
Or maybe I can find a career coach or something who can tell me what to do.
This can't continue. I am feeling pretty burnt out as it is, if help doesn't arrive soon I'm not going to survive. (Though on the other hand, I came in this Sunday morning to work in a less distracted mode and catch up on things, and I am really enjoying myself. Design work is fun! So I can hold on for some amount of time, there are still good things about this job.)
Anyone know how to write a mid-career engineer's resume? The resume I have right now is years out of date, and my work history is one job worked since I graduated from college, for the past thirteen years, plus a couple college internships. I have done loads of cool and impressive stuff at this job, but the details are what makes them impressive. I don't know how to talk about my work briefly in a way that doesn't seem as if I'm just repeating the same thing over and over again: Used processes X, Y, and Z to design Awesome System Q. Used processes X, Y and Z to design Awesome System R. Used processes X, Y and Z to design Awesome System S. If you know what makes System Q awesome and different than System R, you'll think I'm impressive, but I want a resume that can be shopped to a broader array of places, so I need to think about how to display the more broadly applicable skillsets I've developed.
Or maybe I can find a career coach or something who can tell me what to do.