Here is my question, after working 10 years in the airline industry I had gone back to school and received a degree as a Network Specialist. Currently I work for a large newspaper company but business is in the tank, and I have found while I like the weekends off thing I hate the working inside an office thing. Are there any types of IT jobs with the railroads or railroad contractor that are more outdoors forsay working in different places other then a typical office IT setting or server room? If this is not the proper place for this posting plese delete, I will also post in railroadfourms.net employment section just to be safe.
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If you wanted field work, your background could conceivably gain you some interest from Signaling and Communications Department, but you’d be starting entry level which at this point in your career might not be much fun or offer nearly enough pay. You’d be holding the dull end of a muck stick.
IT jobs at the railroad are 99% inside at the headquarters if you’re in that department. Doesn’t mean you can’t branch into aspects that are more challenging or “more railroad.” Many of the IT people I’ve worked with are spending all of their time working with other departments on developing applications, not just managing the systems. For example, I’ve worked with IT department on computer-aided dispatching, electronic train-management systems, database integration between operating and customer service, database integration between operating and communications systems, etc.
RWM