Yes, I do. I know much can change in a year.
I also know that the need for good workers does not go away, unless, like me, one lives in an area where the work has gone all the way across the board, quite often b/c many jobs have left the country.
This has been the case where I live. I have had personal experience with a company, leaving the country. Many of us were not invited along. Those of us whom were, were offered very good incentives on one hand, on the other, dangerous areas of the world, make those incentives worthless.
Then there are to ones that would have gladly followed the companies, but were told they had to train their replacements both on domestic shores, as well as overseas, otherwise they would not receive their benefits package when they were laid off.
Even part-time jobs are not here. I was told by Tech Agencies that they are not getting requests for Technicians since there is a surplus of Engineers laid off. Companies can fill both positions with a laid off Engineer at a Technician rate of pay.
So, I will continue to do my homework on the feasibility or opportunities of this and/or other options. However, once I am healed and given the green light, medically, one unavoidable fact remains: I will have to go where ever the work is.
My Husband and Parents are dead. I have no Children to help me when I get older, than I already am. My Siblings that have not passed through that final veil, we all have to travel, have their own Families and problems. I will not be adding to them. So it is just me, to take care of me.
I will be getting a newer camper & replacing my truck, packing my FurBabies, putting anything else into storage and then following the work, living in campgrounds.
There are many from here having had to do, likewise.
One poster above mentioned, we, as a nation, have lost our ambition. Some of us never lost it. We have always had it. Just with more obstacles to overcome, to be able to achieve what many have felt is their right to just either have or have taken for granted.
as long as there is internet I wouldn’t mind too much
Where are you? Here we hire engineers with a CEO rate of pay (well, almost...)