The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1453

Ves structured his lecture to achieve several goals. Alongside hitting the points that Professor Nxi wanted him to address, he also snuck in another objective.

Right now, he was slowly building up to that point.

\"The market isn’t fair and so isn’t life.\" Ves continued his lecture. \"To become an independent is not the best solution for everyone. The risks are too high and so is the price. Becoming a dependent may not be the most prestigious direction you can take in your career, but plenty of Masters have emerged after building up their competences by working for the military or a great mech company.\"

Ves waved his hand, causing the statistics projected above him to disappear.

\"The reason why I hammer the need to assess your strengths and weaknesses is because only by knowing where you stand will you know what you need to stand on your own. If you blindly proceed to start your own business without knowing you are bad at mechanics for example, all of your mechs will be far too shoddily put together to be worth purchasing!\"

He had witnessed far too many marginal mech designers who barely eke out an existence from a single mech workshop. He did not want the students here to enter the market with hopeful ideas, only to end up as a zombie in the brutal mech industry.

\"Cherish your time at Rawlings. You only have a set amount of years to build up your foundation. The competences you acquire during your studies here determine the starting point of your career in the mech industry. Now, those of you who have done well and are capable of doing more won’t have anything to worry about. As for those of you with average grades, I’m sorry, but you just won’t cut it if you start off on your own. The difference between you and those with better results is that the latter is much more capable of differentiating their products!\" _{freewёbnoνel.com}

When Ves tied the academic results of the students to the chances of succeeding in becoming an independent, he brought the lesson much closer to home!

While the academic workload of Rawlings was quite high compared to more standard mech universities, most students were able to keep up due to passing through the strict selection process.

Yet keeping up was not the same as excelling in their studies! Only a portion of them truly took to their courses like fish to water! For everyone else, achieving higher-than-average grades was already a win in their books!

However, in the majority of the cases, the level of determination and learning ability demonstrated by the average students simply didn’t cut it! When they finally tried to make something of themselves in the mech market, they would probably wish they exhibited a lot more drive and urgency in making the best of their time at Rawlings!

As Ves kept painting a bleaker picture with his words, he finally offered a form of salvation.

\"This is not the end, though. Far from it. Mech designers are needed everywhere. Rawlings students such as you are unlikely to be demoted to fabricators, repairers or any of the other side professions related to mechs. The government, military and existing mech companies all have a need for diligent mech designers who can dutifully fill up their design teams.\"

Numerous Rawlings students definitely appeared to be considering their plans. Ves had managed to convince at least some of his audience to reconsider their ill-thought plans to start their own mech companies.

He smiled. \"Is becoming an independent the end of a mech designer’s career path? Far from it! There is nothing wrong with borrowing the strength of a stronger employer to overcome your shortcomings. The only thing you need to take into account is that you only have so much time to progress and make something of yourself!\"

A mech designer could never have enough time!

\"From what I’ve found out, the employment prospects of Rawlings graduates is excellent. The reputation of your school is deservingly high and each of you who pass all of your courses are well-prepared to perform all kinds of starter work. As long as your academic record is decent, I’m sure you can choose between plenty of employers, all of which offer different conditions and incentives for you to join.\"

Ves paced around the podium. \"However, the question here is which employer is the best? The military is often seen as the best employer because they provide a lot of support. However, they only employ the best, so it is not that easy to enter their circle. It’s easier to join one of the many mech companies looking to bolster their design teams, but this is where you need to set your priorities straight.\"

He stopped pacing and faced the center of the audience in a dramatic turn.

\"Do you cherish and continue to pursue your lofty ambitions, or do you just want a stable, well-paying job?\"

Silence stretched as Ves fell silent for a moment. Who would want to admit they counted among the latter? Many Rawlings students developed considerable egos due to the prestige of their school!

\"From my observation and experiences of other mech companies, they always drive a hard bargain.\" He grinned. \"Let me tell you about one of the unspoken rules of the mech industry. The lead designers, who are mostly the bosses to these companies, don’t want their subordinate mech designers to get too uppity.\"

That sounded very odd!

\"In order for a subordinate to become useful, they have to develop a lot of skills and improve their overall design abilities. However, they don’t want you to become too good, because you’ll eventually quit and take away all of the skills that the mech company has invested in you! Sure, the contracts you sign will most likely compel you to pay your former employers a share of the profits of your new business ventures, but it is still a wasteful event in their eyes!\"

As a business owner, Ves had long grappled about this subject himself. From his standpoint, the most useful design team consisted of subordinates who worked for him long enough to be able to compliment his design style!