Fuckin' Jack Welch. I like this (and just about only this) about the guy:

Regarding shareholder value, Welch said in a Financial Times interview on the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, “On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy...your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products".[51]

Anyway. It is, it's also useful for things like process scale-up, new process implementations and qualifications, and highly repeatable processes.

I'm hoping to use this as a stepping stone to get a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, and leveraging that in to a full-time position that can take in a more holistic business function beyond working in one factory. I'd like to work on process improvements across an entire business, across departments, and improve process capabilities while reducing waste. It's a decent way to feel okay about working in an industrial setting. If, somehow, I could get in to a more R&D oriented position which uses these principles that would be great too.