Issues related to further career choices in the instrumentation field

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Time flies; in the blink of an eye, it has been almost four years since I graduated. I studied Process Equipment and Control Engineering. My first job was at an LNG plant, which deals with LNG, that clean energy source that is so popular these days. My current job is in instrument after-sales service. I majored in equipment process control, yet I didn’t know how to choose the instrumentation major; I’ve been working in this field for almost four years now. In the first two years I worked at an LNG plant, where I got to familiarize myself with all the standard instruments, valves, transmitters, pressure gauges, etc., as well as online chromatography systems, infrared devices, DCS systems, and so on. Due to the three-shift, two-day rotation system in factory life, its location far from the city center, and the fact that it was a small private enterprise, there was no hope of staying there at all; so after driving to the factory, he left without hesitation, even when he wanted a raise. Driven by a desire to get familiar with the entire process in the instrumentation industry, from production and manufacturing to sales and end-use in factories, I chose to work in the instrumentation sector for my second job as well. However, due to my personality, I was not able to work in sales; instead, I handled after-sales support for the company’s instrumentation products. The company dealt in a wide variety of instrumentation items, all of which were imported through agents, with no original products of its own. I have been working on projects, and in most cases I am involved in delivering the instruments sold by the company to the site, as well as in their installation, commissioning, and maintenance. I am gradually becoming more familiar with the instruments I was used to working with before, and I am also slowly getting to know those I haven’t encountered before, such as those used for water quality monitoring and various instruments in environmental monitoring systems. Gradually, over almost two years now, due to the nature of this job which involves constant business trips and no proper social security, I have once again reached a bottleneck. Compared to the past two years, I’ve moved away from the life of working three shifts and staying in one place, but this current lifestyle of constantly being on business trips with no income is indeed something I couldn’t have imagined. Is the quality of life necessarily related to one’s occupation or the path chosen? Is your current life determined by fate, or is it your own choice? Both the factory use of the instruments and the sales process through agents, including how to get them to the factories, have already been tried out. Is it still necessary to spend two more years at the manufacturing plant to gain further experience? Are there experienced professionals with over 20 years of experience in this field? Could you give me some advice? I really want to get ** from Hai Chuan; otherwise I’ll go and do a job that has nothing to do with instrumentation, just so I can stay at home with my wife. It’s enough as long as I can earn money to support the family. I earnestly ask Master Haichuan to share his insights; please also share your thoughts so we can exchange ideas.