Is now a good time to be leaving aircraft maintenance?
I'm currently a line maintenance mechanic for a large airline. Over the last few years, I've started to lose interest in aviation and have been passively exploring other options for a while. Obviously with COVID going on, I feel that the future of aircraft engineering will be substantial cuts, with fewer perks and worse pay etc. So is now a good time to leave the industry? I have been offered a role as a robotics engineer, initially, its a pay cut but they have an incremental payrise system which means I would be back up to my current salary within 2 years or so. The companies just taken on a few big contracts too, and have assured me that job stability for the next 6 or 7 years at least is looking great! I'm very tempted to leave aviation and enter into the robotics field, but would I be making a huge mistake?