Beginner in Maine, moving to Salt Lake City

I worked in a composites research lab back in college and I loved it. I graduated 3 years ago and haven’t done much since but I’m looking for a career change so I’m trying to improve my knowledge. I heard this is a great place to do that, so here I am!

I am currently in Maine (I went to college at UMaine), but looking to move to Salt Lake City in the next few months. I would like to get back in the composites field, doing research, making bike parts, manufacturing supplies, etc. I’m not picky.

My work at the research lab was more on the labor end of things, so I assembled pre-designed parts for vacuum infusion, or crafted small samples using pre-preg and then tested the samples and helped analyze the data. I am here to learn what I was working with and why, since most of my work was along the lines of “insert part A into part B and seal with tacky-tape.”

I’ll appreciate any advice, suggested reading, or anything. I probably won’t post much for a while but I’ll be around. Wish me luck!

welcome to the site, where in Maine you from?

I live in Kittery now, but I grew up in Gardiner.

Oh, ok, not too far from where I grew up in Bowdoinham

Welcome I live just ouside salt lake, right now I work at Hexcel.

I am from winthrop and moved to bowdoinham and am just starting to browse the forum too.

Thats cool, Small world! I grew up on Fisher rd. I havent lived there now for almost 8 years. Bowdoinham is actually a nice small Maine town to live in.