How have you guys ended up in Industrial 3D printing?

So I've been 3D printing stuff for years. Pretty much since 3D printers first became commercially available. I had one on my desk to see what I could do with this.

Since then I've learnt how to become pretty proficient in CAD and Fusion 360 for designing parts for cars and projects that I've been working on and there is a whole heap of stuff around my house that has been custom made to suit problems, that I've 3D printed.

Now I've recently been watching the Titans of CNC 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing videos and I'm getting a bit sick of working in insurance, which I moved to after being sick of being a truck driver.

However, I just can't seem to find any pathways into this role, hell, even searches on job sites for 3D printing, or Additive Manufacturing return 100:1 hits on subtractive manufacturing, if I even get any hots at all.

Normally it's hits on stuff like CAD Engineer, Craftsperson, or "unrelated" fields like design and manufacturing of toys and prototyping consumer plastic products that will be ultimately injection moulded.

All my experience to this point however has been in FDM, and a bit of SLA and DLP.

I'd really love to sink my teeth into SLS, SLM, DMLS, and even EBM, even using a CNC MIG Welding Process would be cool. So scale isn't a concern, although I do have some physical injuries in knees and lower back, most stuff I see 3D printed is smaller machines, well within my physical abilities to do the job.

If required, I'm even willing to go through an apprenticeship over a couple of years in order to get to that point, I can find traditional apprenticeships to be a regular CNC operator for everything from Mills, to 5 Axis, to Swiss, even EDM...but nothing for Additive.

I keep hearing things that it's a growing industry and they need more people to get into it and it's groundbreaking and that it is the future of certain types of manufacturing.... But there seems no clear way to get into it.

Though part of me realises that this may potentially be my location, I live in Australia and our depth of Industry is much shallower than places like the US and China.