How to become an FEA Analyst, and is it worth it?

My FEA course: https://enterfea.com/learning-fea/ Discount Code for the course: FEA-at-home (sadly it's not available now) Expand the comment to see the CONTENTS LIST OF THE VIDEO: Is it worth it to be an FEA Analyst 01:00 - Good vs Bad FEA positions 02:30 - What is important in FEA career 03:13 - Being an FEA expert + FEA Pros 08:56 - Drawbacks of FEA career 14:20 - Is it worth it to become an FEA expert? How to become an FEA Analyst 17:08 - FEA and Engineering Skills 19:17 - FEA, Software, and Hardware 23:45 - FEA knowledge is software-independent! 26:12 - What do you need to know to work in FEA 31:15 - What to do to start in FEA 33:42 - Summary + how to learn FEA Questions and Answers 38:30 - Start 39:40 - What do you think about meshless methods? 41:00 - Is Ph.D. important in the FEA field? 44:14 - How do you educate your Clients about what is good FEA? 46:30 - Did you start doing FEA in a field you were an expert in first? 48:08 - What is the needed education level to work in FEA? 49:56 - Benchmarks to test if FEA results are reliable 52:35 - Verification and Validation - is it always needed? 54:30 - How do you deal with material models? 55:07 - Good tools for FEA administrations 56:10 - Is your FEA Online Course "Intermediate" level? 57:22 - Machine learning and FEA automation 58:15 - Is CAD really important for FEA? 59:08 - What is the best free FEA software? 59:35 - Are more mechanical designers doing FEA? 1:00:18 - What could be the first steps in FEA? 1:01:03 - Tire industry and FEA 1:01:50 - How important is calculus in FEA? 1:02:29 - What other skills are useful in FEA? 1:03:17 - How to motivate young people to learn FEA? 1:04:50 - Our Plant gets 5sec of fame! 1:05:03 - What software do I use in my FEA online course? 1:05:45 - Do my FEA online course starts with the very basics? 1:05:50 - Do you know what Ansys Discovery Line is? 1:06:35 - Are there any good FEA books/courses? 1:07:33 - Websites for dynamic FEA 1:07:49 - How can an FEA specialist work during the pandemic? 1:09:13 - Uses of transient / modal analysis? 1:09:42 - When do you start your online class? 1:10:00 - Can you trust your mesh the first time you do a model? 1:11:10 - Do I show stress singularities in my reports? 1:11:48 - Do you show stresses above yield in your reports? 1:12:08 - How do you estimate the price of an FEA project? 1:13:36 - Learning FEA on freeware software 1:15:21 - Is the quality of Filite Elements of paramount importance? 1:16:15 - When will you start a nonlinear FEA course? 1:17:00 - Do you use python to pre- and post-process FEA outcomes? 1:17:55 - Do you consider prestress generated during the forming of steel parts in the analysis? 1:18:42 - Do you evaluate fatigue in your FEA projects? 1:18:55 - What do you think about seismic analysis on an undergraduate level? 1:19:35 - Is FEA useful in FFS in service assessment? 1:20:01 - What are the steps to do design according to Eurocode? 1:21:50 - How good is Autodesk Inventor FEA? 1:22:35 - Do you need a PE license to have an FEA company? 1:23:26 - Laptop for FEA specification 1:23:55 - How do you check welding in FEA? 1:25:40 - What is the future of FEA industry? 1:27:38 - What should be Laptop for FEA specification for beginners? 1:28:47 - Why RFEM was not enough for me? 1:29:41 - How accurate FEA software is in composite structures? 1:30:19 - Do you consider initial stresses in steel structures? 1:30:41 - Is FEA needed in civil engineering? 1:32:12 - Approach to fatigue design with FEA 1:32:37 - Is transparency in how FEA codes work needed? 1:33:40 - Advice on Dynamic Analysis in FEA