Sure thing Rick.
People who think people get stuck on DSP projects have never worked on them or seen them. Such projects are done as a team not an individual.
Complete support is provided by the project supervisor who sits out the front and watches every one's screen and ensures that all the work done by individuals can marry up together.
I have been amazed at the ability of those supervisors, I didn't previously even believe such individuals could even exist.
There is no getting stuck as there are team members with different specialties and operators at this level are able to pick concepts up in half an hour.
They are of course are well qualified in the basics of electronics. Any problems then specialists are there or got in from outside.
I even had difficulty doing FFTs on a particular processor so they the local chip manufacturer's specialist in to coach me.
Even before these day Semiconductor manufacturers provided Field Applications Engineers who regularly visited everyone who was working on projects with using their chips, to help them with any difficulties and they could call in further support if required.
In one project I am thinking of I was one of the few members of one team that didn't ride a skate board to work.
In that project when I went home other team members in other countries would continue to work on the project. There were engineers in four countries working on it around the clock. That was a big infrastructure radio comms project.
The problem I have with such projects is my documentation is not good, a hang over from the old days from working alone in asia, I had to I didn't speak the language very well.
I remember I used to read old electronics magazines were I would see old men consistently arguing that transistors would never take over from valves, times have not changed.
If the young fellow here wants some instrumentation and measuring gear I would recommend he instead look at one of these not a CRO as such.
Its a credit card credit card sized board that can transform into oscilloscope, signal gen, spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer, amateur radio station, SDR receiver, LCR meter, Bode analyzer, can be controlled by using Matlab, LabView, Python & Scilab. And its as cheap as chips.
This device is in fact the very type of application he needs to aim at working on, yes make yourself a more valuable applicant at college or for your first job.
https://redpitaya.com/Yer I am an old school guy licensed ham radio operator, ex T.V. serviceman and all that.
In my day we spent a whole term on ohms law and a whole year on Thevinin's/Norton's/Nodal. That's all done in a few hours now.
He best get ready for it as there are going to be a mass of applicants applying for the very few jobs left in replacing capacitors for peanuts.