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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2178137" data-attributes="member: 2205">I work for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />I'm in Purchasing.  I was a buyer for door handles (interior and exterior), mirrors (interior and exterior) and luggage racks for all North American vehicle programs when I was burned out.  It was a pretty nifty job in some ways; I was in charge of almost half a billion dollars annually, although naturally we were trying to shrink that as much as possible.  Now I'm working with an IT group (although I'm still attached to the Purchasing function) and I'm the guy in charge of all announcements and communications relative to changes in our Purchasing systems to all users.  That's actually a fairly big deal, as we're in the middle of a massive transition from one system to another.  But once that's all done, the workload will probably dry up and I'll have to go back to a more mainstream purchasing job.Like I said, I'm actually pretty well-paid for that kind of job at about 85k annually.  Then again, southeast MI is a relatively high-cost living area, so we need to be better paid than we were in, say, Texas (where I lived before) to have the same standard of living.</blockquote>