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beginner brain drain
KL27x:
I suspect that for many EE and programmers, that their most productive years will be in their teens and twenties. And that is goes downhill from there. The ones who manage to continue in the field will be the ones with the best people skills and enough ego to continue talking down to the younger generation and make their lives miserable by telling them how to do things, and enough BS skills to appear indispensable to upper brass or investors. :) Other more technical EE, some end up in a very specialized niche. Much easier to keep current and relevant in a specialty.
tpowell1830:
--- Quote from: KL27x on July 23, 2018, 09:02:29 pm ---Other more technical EE, some end up in a very specialized niche. Much easier to keep current and relevant in a specialty.
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^^ THIS
Forget the first part that KL27 said tongue-in-cheek. After my beginning years when I had gotten past the gatekeepers, so to speak, I started mentoring younger players as much as I could.
When you are handed project after project, one tends to clear the way in your mind for the new task at hand and therefore, much of what occurred in your previous unrelated project is either lost or stored in a difficult to reach place in your brain, only to be re-awoken when you review your old project at length. Sometimes if you're lucky, some of that knowledge comes back to you. Most projects are somewhat unrelated in certain lines of work, such as my patchwork history.
On the other hand, like KL27 said, if you steep yourself into a single dimensioned niche, you can really absorb a lot in a serial fashion where you can relate current ideas to your original knowledge without that much issue. Since everything is related, the breadcrumbs are still there. Just my opinion.
Hope this helps...
CatalinaWOW:
Another thing that feeds into it for me is endurance. When I was a kid I solved many problems in a day or two. But those days started at sunrise and ended after midnight. I can't and won't do that anymore so those same problems take a week or more.
bitseeker:
--- Quote from: digsys on July 23, 2018, 12:27:20 pm ---A few years ago, a customer brought in some industrial PLC for me to fix. It looked a well made unit, so I agreed (usually don't take "foreigner" repairs).
After a couple days I got it going. I commented to him .. it was a nice design, but a bit short in a couple parts, nice layout etc etc
Then he says .. "you idiot, you built it for us years ago" ... oops :-) I searched my archives and found the code .. couldn't even remember writing it !
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That's a good one. Note to self: don't critique unknown code, designs, etc., lest you discover that it's yours.
I suppose your response could've been, "Yeah, and I'd make it even better knowing what I know now."
digsys:
--- Quote from: bitseeker --- ... I suppose your response could've been, "Yeah, and I'd make it even better knowing what I know now."
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It was the pivotal moment, the shock, in your life - believing you were invincible ... having produced 100s designs / systems over 30+ yrs - came the day
that you didn't even recognize one of your children .. entirely ! It took a while to come to comprehend, hence I had NO time for an exit response.
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