Six rings, six career stages. Pick the ring you are sitting on now. We will work outwards from there.
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You're staring at GCSE choices, or A-level results, or a UCAS form. Engineering sounds interesting but nobody in your house has done it. You don't know if a degree is the move, or an apprenticeship, or something nobody's mentioned yet. I get it. I was you.
Read the school-to-work piecesYou started the job. The badge is on. The problem is that nothing on site, in the office or in the team WhatsApp matches what the lecturer told you. You're guessing more than you'd like to admit. You're not stupid. The course just didn't cover this.
Read the survival piecesYou've been doing this a few years. You've earned trust on small things. Now you're trying to work out chartership, your next role, whether to stay technical or move into PM, and how to actually get into the rooms where the real money is being decided.
Read the levelling-up piecesI spent the first three days of my first job trying to look like I knew what I was doing. I didn't. Here's what I wish someone had said before I walked through the door.
Everyone tells you to get chartered. Nobody tells you what it actually costs, how long it takes, or why so many engineers start and never finish.
Civil, mechanical, electrical — you've heard those. But what about the ones that actually pay well and have almost no competition for talent?
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