Mechanical Engineer that doesn't like Hands On Stuff

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<p>Hey Everyone, </p>

<p>I have been working in as mechanical engineer in a manufacturing environment for a while. I deal with a lot of manufacturing and hands on stuff like machining, lathes, and reading and making manufacturing drawing. </p>

<p>I am not really good at it nor do I really enjoy it. Even when I was at school, I enjoyed the theoretical aspect of engineering. I am looking to go back to grad school or get a different engineering job. My questions is, as a mechanical engineer, even with a graduate degree, will I be always doing some manufacturing stuff and redesigning machine parts ? Will this tooling stuff never go away ?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Oh you can surely do things other than this. There are mechanical engineers who do things like structural analysis or fluids related work, which won’t require much hands on stuff. I think you just need to find a different company with work that interests you, or go to grad school and then do that. You will find jobs that aren’t like that, don’t worry.</p>

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<p>Seems to me that anybody with an ME degree is overqualified to do a job with hands-on machining.</p>

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<p>I would amend that to say something more like 95% of jobs with hands-on machining. Still, you are probably right.</p>