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| fourfathom:
I'm pretty happy with my professional legacy, people helped, friends made. But now that's wound down I still have fun learning, designing and building. A couple of years ago I helped out a bit at the local high school STEM program, helping kids troubleshoot and understand the electronics part of their projects (one was a submersible ROV). I hope to do more of that. |
| paf:
Age is very important but only for wine, cheese and electrolytic capacitors! When considering humans, the best way to check the age of someone is to check if they want to learn. If they don't want to learn, they are already dead and just have not noticed yet... |
| RJSV:
Glenn, (your) legacy can often be subject to all kinds of good and bad RANDOM. Sometimes just holding back with obvious trouble-making gets you on the 'good' track. Obvious examples, those that, (last century), participated in the, almighty, Atom Bomb must have had all kinds of thoughts, regarding 'consequences'. Just my view, (but be careful of my advice lol). |
| CatalinaWOW:
I see no reason to be ashamed or unhappy. I am on this forum for several reasons and suspect many of them are also true for you. 1. While I don't learn as fast or easily as I once did, I still enjoy learning new things. 2. I feel I have been able to help others on occasion. While I am seldom the best informed on almost anything here, I can still provide useful information on a few subjects. 3. (See 1). The huge supply of smart and well informed people on this forum have already answered many questions that I once would have dived into and solved myself. No need for me to re-invent every wheel. 4. It is a larger collection of like minded folk by far than I can find in my current physical surroundings. Those who really enjoy these kinds of things are thin on the ground worldwide as far as I can tell. Once you get out of the concentrations associated with full time employment it gets to be pretty slim pickings. Others can be enumerated, but they all speak to the idea of community. A sum that is greater than the sum of the parts, and where all pieces large and small are part of the whole. |
| mawyatt:
--- Quote from: paf on August 06, 2021, 05:35:10 pm ---Age is very important but only for wine, cheese and electrolytic capacitors! --- End quote --- Don't forget LM399s and LTZ1000s ;D Best, |
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