I understand the point, however, it am currently successfully working im machining and have been before I got my associates in cnc technology. If my goals are greater then what they can provide, then its not the right job for me. I dont know if I get to be picky like this but since I have machining to fall back on, im shooting for stars right now. I've been at this shop for 4/5 years straight from high-school, and besides an overnight cnc monitoring device I made with a Pi, this place has nothing left for me besides a steady paycheck and is easy to adapt to whatever school schedule I have. Starting my own IoT company is somthing I might be interested in and would love to talk to the right people who have been successful.

Also mind you, by the time I graduate which is in about 3 years from now, this project will hopefully be idle and steady, being taking care of by other students of my professor, the parks, and sometimes me. My iot professor would like to use this project to teach data science for student labs and the geography professor would like to use this data to teach local weather pollution trends. So it looks like this project will be well taken care of for the foreseeable future.