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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by taway_1212 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:56PM (#14174412)
> previously I was in the field,

I'm curious about this kind of work, could you share more of your experience? What exactly did you do, how hard was it to find job, was it with one company, how often did you move from farm to farm?

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by eagletusk on Saturday April 22, 2017 @07:15PM (#14175428)
6 months here, 5 there. Long hours. Definitely not boring, great job satisfaction when you can say you helped build a 100 MW Wind Farm. Decent pay.

There are maybe 5 major EPC Engineer Procure Construct companies all of them are very similar.

Lots of military types find the field work similar their previous experience.

You get to meet people from all walks of life, rural farmer to execs of S&P 500 companies.

Lots of driving.

More project management then Engineering if you're​ in the field.

I've also been a part of a few large scale solar farms 20-100MW Same companies and same work situation, but less cranes.

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