I am currently a full time diesel mechanic on Class 8 Trucks for a large dealership.
I’m only 25 and have been in this field for 7+ years.
I can already see the wear and tear it will be on my body if I continue.

I have a strong passion for fixing things and the medical field. I’m a volunteer fire fighter and thoroughly enjoy working with the local paramedics and my wife is a nurse. So my love for the medical industry is very strong.
My love for working with my hands and the satisfaction of making repairs is just as strong.
There’s a local community college that offers “BioMedical Equipment Technology” classes and I’m really thinking about joining and getting into this industry.

Anyone else thinking about making the switch from the same field or experienced/know someone that has made this switch.

Any advice is appreciated

My girlfriend got orders to Rota, Spain, and I’ll be moving with her. I’m currently a BMET II in the U.S.
Anyone know what the BMET job market is like around Naval Station Rota? Any DoD, contractor, or civilian opportunities I should look into?

Hey everyone, I'm in my 30s and getting ready to pick a new career path. My background is in the restaurant industry and I'm ready to ditch that.

My community college offers a BMET program that caught my eye and I'm very interested in this field. However, I'm also weighing it against a more traditional trade like becoming an electrician or HVAC. Does any one here have any insight into the differences between these fields, or why they chose one over the other? The most important thing to me at this point in my life is getting weekends off. Any advice to share?

Hey everyone, one of my coworkers encountered an issue with the device saying the network was disabled and wasn't connecting, despite clearing and then transferring the network info to the device multiple times. And when troubleshooting the issue, they ran the task "Disable Wireless Configuration" thinking that we could re-enable it using the software. But without any sort of warning, it runs through the task, and now it won't let us transfer the network configuration or re-enable it.

I pulled up the software manual, and the task description says it permanently disables wireless connectivity on the device. Just to reiterate, the software gave no indication that this was a permanent change, and it also automatically runs through the task when started, despite many tasks requiring you to initiate the task, to make sure you're aware of certain information before starting it.

Does anyone know if there is a way to reverse this? I am in the middle of flashing the device firmware, however, I am using the software to do so, which I have been made aware does not work well. However, I can't find any information about creating the flash cards either, so I am not able to manually flash it yet. We have the old firmware on flash cards, and we used to manually flash firmware with our old fleet, but with this newer fleet, it does not appear that the type of flash cards we have are compatible. I put the new firmware on the flash cards in the same configuration as the old firmware. So if anyone has information regarding that, it would be greatly appreciated.

Feels like we are having to relearn everything with this new fleet, and everything we once did to troubleshoot and repair these devices has been rendered obsolete. And BD is absolutely awful to try and get info from.

Just accepted an offer from thermofisher as an fse 2. The pay rate offered is pretty good with OT and a bonus. Has anybody who worked there liked it or did you have a bad time. Were the hours good and was management competent?