So, if you wish to continue in Quality department, you have a good future which may be slow but steady. Emphasis on Quality has become very important in last two decades and continuously trying to improve Quality and quantitative measure of quality has become a way of improving the quality. If you want to explore career elsewhere, since you have done your mechanical engineering, you have lots of other job prospects too. You can get a break in automobile industry, chemical industry, electronics, steel plants, oil exploration and refining, technical wings of armed forces, space research organisation, etc. Several government departments including Posts and Telegraphs, Defense, PWD, and CPWD employ mechanical engineers. Aeronautical, agricultural, automobile, chemical, and power plants, as well as the railways, need mechanical engineers to design and maintain their machinery. In agricultural sector, mechanical engineers play a vital role by establishing service centres for maintenance of tractors, oil engines, pump sets, electric motors and other agricultural equipments. If you wish to study further, you can specialise in following fields:

• Robotics
• Computer aided designs,
• Biomechanics,
• Automation
• Thermal/Fluids Engineering
• Systems and Design Engineering
• Materials Science Engineering

If you are interested in management, you can do your MBA. With an additional management degree, you can find work in administrative and managerial positions in government departments or public and private sector industries. You can also do research as well as teaching in Research and teaching institutes. You can also opt for technical sales / marketing or work as independent consultants.

So you can make quite a bright and a secure future for yourself with a little more effort.

All the best
CareerAge Counselor