Everyone else learned to work from home. You learned where the badge reader is. In 2020 the world moved to laptops and stayed there. Mechanical engineering kept its seat in the plant, see Reason #20
Remote opportunities in ME are rare for a simple reason: the work hugs hardware. Tests live in labs. Builds live on floors. Compliance lives in rooms with clipboards and stickers. Hybrid promises drift back to on site because gates, audits, and signoffs exist in places without Zoom. Your calendar follows equipment, not your preferences, see Reason #14.
The pandemic proved entire industries can function at a distance. Software did. Finance did. Even parts of medicine did. Mechanical did not. You can move a CAD file from a couch, but you cannot run a thermal cycle, chase a vibration, or witness a UL pre-scan from there. Suppliers still want eyes on parts, not emails about them. When timing gets tight, the question is not “Can you log in.” It is “Can you be here.”
Oversupply keeps it that way. Employers can insist on butts in bays and still fill the role. If you cannot make second shift for a retest, someone else will, see Reason #1.
What does “remote optional” mean when the chamber is in the building. It means optional for someone else.
The century moved on. Mechanical did not.
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