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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (134132)	2/1/2007 4:40:20 AM
From: country bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

At the time, they weren't very complex. They only had 2 models - the 330 and the 660 - with a third (the 1200) about to be introduced. TI hadn't invented the integrated circuit yet, so solving problems was a lot simpler. It was a job that required me to go to school for 3 months out of the year and forget everything that I had learned previously. I wasn't sure yet what I wanted to do wit the rest of my life, but I knew that wasn't it. By contrast, an engineer from a siding manufacturer few down from Pittsburgh a couple years back with a list of problems that had him and his staff stymied. Within an hour, I solved all the problems on his list plus a couple that he didn't even know he had yet. Most of what I told him was stuff that people in the industry had forgotten about in the course of the last 35 years. He, being 27 years old, admired my experience as much as I admired his engineering degree! He got authorization to offer me a job making 6 figures plus expenses while working out of my house, but I declined the offer. I like the job I have now.