Life being an ex-BB/MBB…

David – I am an ex-BB, by about a month, now currently at liberty, as the theater people say.  I spent 2.6 years as a Black Belt in a big 3 US automaker.  I was at one time a candidate for MBB, but ended up not pursuing that further because of the relatively high amounts of overtime they were demanding of MBB’s in my organization.  I am also the mother of 3 with a consultant husband (not quality or 6 Sigma, but IT and IT security) who travels almost continually for his work.  Since he travels and puts in 60-70 hour weeks even when he’s in town, I don’t feel that doing the same would be fair to our kids. It’s also not cost-effective.  I’d have to hire a second shift of child care / housekeeping, and it would cost MUCH more than the raise they were offering to MBB’s.   Right now my nanny works 50 hours a week so that I could be on-site at my former employer for 45 hours most weeks (I’m now spending most of that same amount of time on a combination of job search, and backing up my mother as caregiver for my father, who has Alzheimers.) Much more work time for very long would burn out the nanny and leave me overwhelmed too.
I’m pursuing new positions as either a Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer (my original job with the auto maker) or as a DFSS / Design for Manufacturing specialist/trainer/consultant (a position I held just before and during my BB assignment).  The job postings on this forum are one of the major places I’ve looked.  I had a few feelers from headhunters about possible jobs, but no interviews and no firm offers yet.  I’ll keep you posted.
Anna

Dear G –
 I am available at [email protected] for any detailed discussion you want to take off-line.  I know you folks don’t want “positions available” postings in the forum, but I hadn’t seen any rules against “practioners available” posts. 
Anna

I was a BB with GE – Australia for approx. 2 years.  Before working for GE I worked for 4 years as a Construction Manager and then approx. 4 years with GE in Fleet/Lease Financing.
I am now a Management Consultant in Risk Management with Marsh (Insurance) doing process re-engineering around Risk Management Systems.  I have also incorporated my construction knowledge to help construction companies show how they are managing their processes to insurance companies to reduce premium costs or to actually get insurance cover. 
I have found my BB training has fitted wonderfully into this new role and many businesses are very excited by 6 sigma.

David
I was limit at GE and Marsh offered me a chance at external consulting.  I didn’t expect to be doing 6 Sigma post GE but there is a strong demand building in Oz.
I liked GE’s vision and training but they were not actually delivering it in the GE business I was in, may be it was just too small and too far from the US.

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If you want any help or support, please email me on [email protected]
 

Hi David,
The career path for a BB or MBB is limitless and when we add good interviewing skills to it, one can imagine working in any environment to create the impact we set ourselves to do.  Do you agree?
Shree