A bachelors degree is what the big MSOs {& other large corporations} are looking for first. I spent 24 years & 9 months in cable. Started as a grunt on a 4 man climbing trunk crew. Those were the days. Run out of lashing wire midspan & you buy a six pack. Forget to brink bugnuts or straps & spacers you'd owe the grunt lunch.
After 14 years with one MSO I left when I saw how the bean counters were going to run the show. For three years I made great money managing retrofit & fiber projects. But thje work started to get farther from home & I was spoiled being close to home & seeing my kids play school sports. I finally told my wife we were going to have live on a tight budget whilst I changed careers. I sent out about 75 resumes to regular construction & real estate management companies. It was in Dec 03 {I don't know why but I hooked up in Dec twice & Jan once when I needed a real job} that I hooked up with my current job which is a combination of property management & construction supervision for a commercial real estate developer.
I loved building cable & fiber, heck @ 43 I even went to work for the company building plant for RCN in Boston as a lineman when I was tired of being 400 miles from home. I expanded my vocabulary to land this job. In the year & a half I have been doing it I am learning new trades & the vocabulary to go with it. I may start a general contracting company once I learn more about estimating. I have built a huge pool of subcontractor talent to draw from.
The point is Frame Relay, don't lose faith in yourself. When I was out of work for about 5 weeks I went to a Limo company & drove airport runs into Boston. All I needed was a suit & the right attitude. The dispatchers liked me so they would throw me a "night out" every now & again. The upside was it allowed me time to read & write resumes. The downside is some people viewed me as "just a limo driver".
Good luck,
Animal
Re: I just have a question for the old In House Da
Member #: 6009
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Name:
WillumWilburWeeWillyWinky
Name:
Animal AKA Will Moolah
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Got me a good gig.
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Govnamint Hack yeah buddy
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Southeast
Experience:
~45 years
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