# Future in Industrial Automation

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/future-in-industrial-automation/14233>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/future-in-industrial-automation/14233 "2017-05-08T20:12:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dcamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dcamp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dcamp)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/future-in-industrial-automation/14233/1 "2017-05-08T20:12:00Z")

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Hello:  
I would appreciate your input/advice.

I come from an electronic design/programming industry, for almost 40 years I have designed new electronic things that evolved around microprocessor’s and that in-turn required me to program heavily in “embedded C” as I always needed to write the firmware for the new device.

I designed all of my own circuit boards which may be as simple as 1 or 2 layers all the way up to 8 layers, and created the schematics for the final product. I am also fairly advanced as a Network Engineer also!

My question is simple, I have retired, but have been involved in PCL’s for about 2 years and I have studied Ignition for about the last 4 months. I am wanting to aggressively pursue the Industrial Automation industry. Is this going to be a reachable goal, or do you think I may be out of my league?

Thanks to all who can share their opinion.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/future-in-industrial-automation/14233/2 "2017-05-08T22:05:08Z")

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I’ll bet you do well. If you have decades of experience writing embedded C, then java and jython and ladder logic will all be a walk in the park. If you’re ever in Atlanta, look me up. Or come to the Ignition Community Conference this fall.

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**Author:** ![dcamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dcamp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dcamp)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/future-in-industrial-automation/14233/3 "2017-05-09T11:59:52Z")

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Thanks for the input, I am going to try to make it in September.

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**Author:** ![goodwillautomationch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@goodwillautomationch](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/goodwillautomationch)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/future-in-industrial-automation/14233/4 "2017-08-10T13:48:50Z")

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I really impressed on your work experience.