Aerospace career advice with a Russian degree
Hello All,
I am Sai. I registered to Crazy Engineers some months ago and i have been visiting this forum often and reading the discussions posted by members and its been great to read all the discussion and ideas given by one and all here. So, I thought i could ask you all some advice for career that has been in my mind. Please help me with your experience and your suggestion. This is my personal career story. I'd be very thankful for your reply.
To start with, I am an Aerospace B.E and M.E post graduate completed education from Moscow, Russia. My specialization was in Flight dynamics and Controls of Aerospace vehicles (Missiles, UAV, Launch vehicles, Aircraft). My education was in Russian medium. After my studies i came back to India(2011) as i couldn't work there being a foreigner. Currently, I have over 3 years experience in Aerospace and automotive domain. My first job was in Aerospace (2 . 5 yrs) and it was pretty cool. I had to work closely with ISRO and DRDO scientist and support them in a software for space and defence application. But unfortunately the company was very small, didn't have a proper team, didn't have a mentor/senior who could be of support technically and i was left all by myself. So, I left this job for an automotive service company. This was a corporate company in Bangalore with more that 800 employees and my domain was different but i choose to work in Model based development with Matlab/Simulink (similar to what aerospace also does). Here i was working mostly on simulink model changes, autocoding, code testing, validation part and i couldn't do any development or design in simulink. My boss/Tech lead was not good, not supportive and i was frequently criticized and given bad performance rating. Being a new domain and having less knowledge for automotive i felt i did a big mistake and i was in wrong place. There were lot of politics and no room for my growth either from work or the team i worked for. Thus i realized this is same for all the service industry. I had put my papers and quit the job and in notice period now.
I am in a confusion of my career what do i really do about my life, goals and career. I have a family to feed, passion/dream/goal to achieve, societal/family pressure, expense of living in Bangalore.
What interests me the most and i would love to do is work in Aerospace dynamics and controls (satellites, UAV, aircrafts), simulation, modelling and analysis, I know Russian technically well to write read and speak, I am patriotic, I'd love to design attitude controls and work on the real time testing and HIL testing of flight controls, design and develop GUIs for flight simulation, Matlab/simulink, programming to some extent, systems engineering, physics, maths, bio-mimicry, and all related to flight is my passion. But i don't have professional experience in the same and these jobs are pretty rare in private sector. Getting into DRDO/ISRO is very hard too competitive, rare recruitment... Doing Phd/Research would be great but financially i couldn't sustain myself/family..becoming a professor wont be my interest now rather i would become one in later part of my career...working in private industry / corporate culture made me suffer so i don't know which are good ones there..
Please suggest me with my given goals, passion and my current condition what could be my best move and that would take my career back on right track..I could add a lot of information but i prefer to keep it short..I would be happy to answer your questions from what i have posted above..Thanks guys!
Thanks and regards,
Sai
I am Sai. I registered to Crazy Engineers some months ago and i have been visiting this forum often and reading the discussions posted by members and its been great to read all the discussion and ideas given by one and all here. So, I thought i could ask you all some advice for career that has been in my mind. Please help me with your experience and your suggestion. This is my personal career story. I'd be very thankful for your reply.
To start with, I am an Aerospace B.E and M.E post graduate completed education from Moscow, Russia. My specialization was in Flight dynamics and Controls of Aerospace vehicles (Missiles, UAV, Launch vehicles, Aircraft). My education was in Russian medium. After my studies i came back to India(2011) as i couldn't work there being a foreigner. Currently, I have over 3 years experience in Aerospace and automotive domain. My first job was in Aerospace (2 . 5 yrs) and it was pretty cool. I had to work closely with ISRO and DRDO scientist and support them in a software for space and defence application. But unfortunately the company was very small, didn't have a proper team, didn't have a mentor/senior who could be of support technically and i was left all by myself. So, I left this job for an automotive service company. This was a corporate company in Bangalore with more that 800 employees and my domain was different but i choose to work in Model based development with Matlab/Simulink (similar to what aerospace also does). Here i was working mostly on simulink model changes, autocoding, code testing, validation part and i couldn't do any development or design in simulink. My boss/Tech lead was not good, not supportive and i was frequently criticized and given bad performance rating. Being a new domain and having less knowledge for automotive i felt i did a big mistake and i was in wrong place. There were lot of politics and no room for my growth either from work or the team i worked for. Thus i realized this is same for all the service industry. I had put my papers and quit the job and in notice period now.
I am in a confusion of my career what do i really do about my life, goals and career. I have a family to feed, passion/dream/goal to achieve, societal/family pressure, expense of living in Bangalore.
What interests me the most and i would love to do is work in Aerospace dynamics and controls (satellites, UAV, aircrafts), simulation, modelling and analysis, I know Russian technically well to write read and speak, I am patriotic, I'd love to design attitude controls and work on the real time testing and HIL testing of flight controls, design and develop GUIs for flight simulation, Matlab/simulink, programming to some extent, systems engineering, physics, maths, bio-mimicry, and all related to flight is my passion. But i don't have professional experience in the same and these jobs are pretty rare in private sector. Getting into DRDO/ISRO is very hard too competitive, rare recruitment... Doing Phd/Research would be great but financially i couldn't sustain myself/family..becoming a professor wont be my interest now rather i would become one in later part of my career...working in private industry / corporate culture made me suffer so i don't know which are good ones there..
Please suggest me with my given goals, passion and my current condition what could be my best move and that would take my career back on right track..I could add a lot of information but i prefer to keep it short..I would be happy to answer your questions from what i have posted above..Thanks guys!
Thanks and regards,
Sai
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