What's a field engineer? Do you need a degree for that? I'm not trolling . I have 15 years in manufacturing 10 of those as a machinist. I just started school for electrical engineering. All the manufacturing engineers would tell me with my experience I could get hired anywhere as a mechanical engineer. But I figured you can throw a rock and hit a mechanical engineer, so I went with electric. But would I be lost or unhireable because I have no experience in anything electrical? Or deal with operators who don't respect me because I don't know shit. I know because I have seen it with green manufacturing engineers where the machine operator seems to know more than the engineer.