My 1000th Post - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mendip_discovery
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 08:40:07 pm
content: Well, I have been putting this off for a while but I think it is time.To post my 1000th post. I had wanted it to be the announcement that I had started a new job for a very well-respected calibration lab but after causing a lot of flapping at work I was coerced into staying.So with that over I need to get my stats up, only 22 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes supposedly spent online on this forum and only 0.612 posts per day.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 08:59:10 pm
content: Sounds like a good dilemma to haveI once was in the position of weighing up three job offers at the same time, so I know it isn't an easy decision.

author: mendip_discovery
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 09:05:50 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on December 15, 2024, 08:59:10 pmI wanted the experience and they offered a significant pay rise of ~38% but there wasn't any lab time and I would be on the road 5 days a week. I have been at the same place for 10 years and I don't like changing jobs but I had some grumbles as I feel that I care more for the place than anyone else I was often taking on more than I can mentally handle. Things may change but I am not sure of it, but at least I'm getting offered a bit more for my time.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 09:11:37 pm
content: Quote from: mendip_discovery on December 15, 2024, 09:05:50 pmAt RACAL it used to be known as the fur-lined rut. You have to climb out of it sometime but where you go needs to be the right fit. Just don't leave it too long.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 09:12:28 pm
content: Being on the road that much would kill me! Driving is tiring and boring.In the early 80s I came to the realisation that if I ever had a job where I was away from home for much of the time, then I would probably become an alcoholic. Back then there was bugger all to do in the evenings in a poky out-of-town hotel, other than watch TV, read a book, and drink.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 09:19:22 pm
content: Quote from: Gyro on December 15, 2024, 09:11:37 pmInteresting phrase. I've used it, but can't remember hearing it elsewhere.I've always remembered a couple of quotes from "Dune", one being " ... he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into stagnation.” ". That's helped me climb out of my fur-lined ruts, for better and worse.

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 09:47:54 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on December 15, 2024, 09:12:28 pmAhhh, not as tiring as programming.I *hate* commuting time, and have always been fortunate to be maximum 10-15 minutes from work.But driving ON THE CLOCK? On an engineer's salary? Sign me up.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 10:40:04 pm
content: Quote from: brucehoult on December 15, 2024, 09:47:54 pmNot clear whether it would be on the clock!Life is too short to spend too much doing things you want to avoid doing.Remember: every engineer needs a mistress. They he can tell the wife he is with the mistress, the mistress he is with the wife - and all the time he his having fun in the lab.

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2024, 11:56:34 pm
content: One of the most fun jobs I ever had was in the summer of 2004/5 when Telecom NZ was setting up its CDMA2000 EVDO network. The job was driving repeatedly around every street in the Wellington region (and one weekend, Christchurch) in a Ford Territory SUV with an RF engineer friend of mine in the back with a mass of test equipment, and something like eight antennas with magnetic bases spread over the roof and wires coming in the windows.I find driving very easy, we had a lot of chance for conversation, and we always found some very interesting and beautiful place to eat lunch. The pay as contractors for Alcatel-Lucent was good too.