re: Any plants hiring operators???

Is your degree relevant to industry?

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Congrats. Great way to get your foot in the door if you want to be an Operator some day.

Combine a couple years of that with Ptec and you'll get hired before you graduate

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Thanks man. Been Working offshore the last few years and work got terribly slow so I had to find something else. I'm hoping getting my foot in the door at a plant will work out in the long run.

No actually. It's called Natural Resource Ecology and Management. Had a concentration in wildlife law enforcement.

Initially wanted to be a game warden, got offered a spot in an academy, turned it down to pursue a wildlife research sorta career. Worked on the LA whooping crane reintroduction project and had grad school lined up in New Mexico. My boss who was going to be my advisor up and tells me one day the funding fell through and I should start exploring other options. I pretty much said frick this and changed careers. Never would've made much money doing that shite anyway.

Yeah, sure. Always encouraging to see someone with a similar skill set get on somewhere.

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I'm an operator in a chemical plant and don't really find this to be true. Yes they do have some minorities/women that definitely seem to have gotten hired based on their gender/ethnicity but there's not too many. There's less than 10 female operators in my plant.

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Same here. There are 3 female operators where I work. I'm actually surprised they didn't hire another one this last time around. Nonetheless, we don't have many.

If you're working with a contractor inside the fences of a plant you will definitely get hired just a matter of time and perfecting your interview skills/resume.

If you're not working in a plant now I would suggest ptec fast track program. It's a 16 week course only available to people with at least an associate degree. The curriculum is all ptec classes, so no general studies.

Only drawback is that it is Monday-Friday 7:30-4:30

Why are they called plants?

I'll say this, my number one concern while I'm at work is doing jobs safely, but it's always to an extent because we'd never get shite done if every little thing was perfect. Everyone preaches safety and the right to stop unsafe work but when it comes down to it they want the shite done no matter what.

Hell I shut down a job a few weeks ago because it was unsafe. I was on the night shift. I come back the next night and find out my sup just had the day guy start the job once I left . I'm like alright that's fine, no one is getting hurt on my watch though because I'll be the first one to get thrown to the wolves if shite hits the fan. They'd be like ohhhh noooo we didn't tell him to do that. That's not our policy, he's fired .

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Hell I shut down a job a few weeks ago because it was unsafe. I was on the night shift. I come back the next night and find out my sup just had the day guy start the job once I left . I'm like alright that's fine, no one is getting hurt on my watch though because I'll be the first one to get thrown to the wolves if shite hits the fan. They'd be like ohhhh noooo we didn't tell him to do that. That's not our policy, he's fired .

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You shouldnt be on nightshift shutting down jobs dayshift let happen

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To me, getting a PTEC degree seems like a waste of time because wherever you work the training will be site specific. Sure there are some general things, but personally I think knowing the chemistry behind the production in a unit is more important than what you'll learn in PTEC school. Being able to problem solve and think on your feet is invaluable as well.

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Same is true for an engineer, they are still required to have a degree.