Now days telecom boss use to say optimization, parameter change, kpi, etc.
All can do what extra you do so indication is clear 
that you missed automation.
Europe will not follow this trend.
Even now to work in Norway or Sweden or Finland you ar erequired to be member of EU and provide a security clearance from NATO!
Jobs of Europe telecom would appear on Upwork.
It is getting very complicated process.
All this crazyness comes from Huawei people getting access to sensitive data of countries.
And governments want to stop this.
Some Huawei engineers don’t even have access to counters and logs and online traces.
Optimise cluster and get paid.
Pay only if cluster is really optimised.
It won’t work this way, I think.
One may spend 2 days or 2 weeks.
Who’s gonna pay for wasted time?
The concept of “job” is wrong. Payment must be for results and post pay model.
It’s already happening in IT world.
Telcos and banks would soon start pushing tasks on Upwork, Toptal, Fiverr Pro.
No value for quality work now only quantity.
Who cares for call drop?
It’s actually not this the problem.
The problem is that up to now companies used to hire 10 engineers to do the job each engineer paid with 100 euro each ( let’s say).
Now they don’t hire anymore 10 enigneers, they hire only 3 engineers pay them with 150 euro each and expect rocket science engineers to do this job.
Everyone wants only experts.
One man show: radio, core transmission and even programmign skills.
Most of people start marking Python scripts for worse cell filtering, graph, worse cell analysis…
And multivendors, releases, features, counters and parameters…
Today MNOs expect 3 engineers to do same job that 10 engineers use to do.
Tomorrow they will need only 2 engineers for same job.
And next week they will think one engineer will be enough, why not, just pay him 200 euro/day and there will always be someone to commit.
The demand and supply is not balanced anymore.
There’s too much supply and not enough demand.
Future here. Everyone wants to be a Data Scientist:
Meet The 12-Year-Old Who Is Working As A Data Scientist In Hyderabad
My few cents…
The “value” of a high-level professional on this modern world isn’t dictated by “how much” he produces, but also how much he’d enable his team to prooduce.
I’m a Brazilian who works with Americans, Indians, Israelis, Chinese.
I could be a genius, which I’m not, but relationship skills are becoming more critical than ever.
If I were to hire a person today, I’d give less weight to “efficiency and skillset” and try to hire a teamplayer, who learns fast and contributes within his team.
Be honest about what you know in an interview, but try to show youre nice guy, with good values, and you might be surprised.
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hehe ! R ! Im glad I started this “opinion” many people feel the same heheh!
I agree with you , this is a dead end…
and more than anything I agree with the teamplayer concept you mentioned here. I believe it´s part of “emotional intelligence” something that is gonna be very valuable in the future. many times I wonder how overrated are “skills” these days… now that you can find a procedure or a code in almost 3 words-google-time…
Osvaldo, btw.
As I said before, security clearance is the new requirement for all RF engineers:
This security clearance is also a must now in Europe for Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland).
This is preposterous, honestly.
Security Clearance is very expensive and generally not given to contractors at all, only permanent staff.
It also comes with many other conditions.
Yes, true, but this is the trend.
In Norway they need 10 RF planners for 5G but not able to get contractors due to security clearance constraint.
Security clearance is a “politically correct” way to select only permanent residents, protecting work opportunities.
Only permanent residents can apply for SC.
But that comes at expense.
Only reason operations are cheaper is because contractors are cheap or outsourcing is cheap.
Security Clearance is big requirement for an RF Engineer.
Agree. But companies are willing to pay the price, apparently.
Maybe government incentives?