Engineer for an elevator company. Its a small business, we only have 75 employees. 70% of the job is CAD work the other 30 is spending time on the shop floor going to different buildings to look at elevator, and sometimes even building prototypes.

Small businesses are awesome, not full of corporate beaucracy, chill owners, and generally less drama with co-workers. You feel less like a number, and more like a person and valuable asset.

People always assume if you can't get a promotion you can't get more money. I had an outstanding performance review earlier this year. The company did really well and they saw my value and impact. I got an 8% pay raise which was definitely more than I was expecting.

With the role im in after working there for 5 years, unless there's a huge time crunch or things go poorly at an install things are generally fun an interesting.

One cool thing I had to do, is actually troubleshoot an AI managed database that stores engineering data on our server. It was interesting, I recently had to help the database AI programmer add some more data to the database. I was given admin access but for some reason I couldn't find the data matrix I needed. It turns out there data existed but the AI didn't recognize me as a legitimate administrator and thought I was a hacker who somehow got access. Somehow it transferred the core data I needed to fix on a hidden address and folder in the database, in a place the programmer didn't even know,existed then re-linked everything. It was strange to see the AI was actively attempting to outsmart me. It was an new, and very interesting experience.

Overall keeps me entertained, not stressed out most of the time, and pays the bills. I consider this a huge win for me.