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Registered Member #2893
Joined: Tue Jun 01 2010, 09:25PM
Location: Cali-forn. i. a.
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I need to start thinking about a career, preferably something non-repetitive, and dealing with electronics.
So... What do you do for a living, and are you happy with your job? Is it boring or interesting, and if you had the choice would you go back in time and choose a different career path?
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Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
Location: Denmark, Odense C
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To start with... every job have its repetitive routines.
I wanted to be an software engineer but dropped out after 1½ years in the study, it was taking all my time and I never felt I got away from the computer.
Today I work as an electrician after I graduated the excams for that with highest possible scores and a medal, I am working 37 hours a week with industrial controlpanels, machines etc.
I have more repetitive routines in my job than I wish for, but I have a lot of spare time to study electronics on my own.
As Steve Conner once said, when you are en electro engineer you start looking differently upon your hobby and it will never be as exciting as when you knew less.
I would not go back, spare time for family, girlfriend and hobby is what makes me happy, not my job :)
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Joined: Tue Jul 27 2010, 03:15PM
Location: South of London. UK
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I've effectively got two jobs, one is an agency job (although I've been here since 2005!) doing internal technical support work (I.E. I tend to not deal directly with customers often although my recent New Jersey trip was an exception to that ) It's nice because someone will come to me with a problem/customisation for a particular customers equipment and I go away and try to find a solution, it involves circuit,PCB and software design, mechanical design and testing. No two jobs are the same and because I have my own well equipped workshop I get a great deal of freedom to work from home. My other job is Freelance pyrotechnician but also design and build electronics related to that. I don't think I could ever do a factory/production line type job unless I was REALLY desperate for work!
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Joined: Sat Mar 31 2007, 04:15AM
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Heres a list of what a lot of folks do for a living:
I think I updated mine when I started to work at my current employer, GDLS JSMC more commonly known around here as the Lima Tank tank plant, I'm a trouble shooter for M1A1 and M1A2 Abraham tanks.
It's repetitive, but its definitely a career I don't mind getting up every day to do, plus hearing a 1500HP Jet turbine engine run is always pretty cool.
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What do you do?
) It's nice because someone will come to me with a problem/customisation for a particular customers equipment and I go away and try to find a solution, it involves circuit,PCB and software design, mechanical design and testing. No two jobs are the same and because I have my own well equipped workshop I get a great deal of freedom to work from home. My other job is Freelance pyrotechnician but also design and build electronics related to that. I don't think I could ever do a factory/production line type job unless I was REALLY desperate for work! 
