Seems like a good place for a first post...
Years ago I decided to make a career from computer science and keep electronics as a hobby. It worked out, but sometimes I still wonder if it would have been better to do electrical engineering professionally and programming as a hobby.
Professionally I'm a principle engineer currently doing firmware for network edge routers.
My hobbies tend to rotate daily or at least monthly. In addition to electronics, radio and microcontroller stuff I do everything from construction, plumbing, electrical, mechanics and I've experimented with sewing, crochet and cooking. Currently (as always) I've too many irons in the fire as in addition to a busy time at work I'm starting a repipe of my house (galvanized to pex), repairing my offgrid solar electric system (800w active, 400w out of commission due to storm damage with another 400w waiting until after I assemble and deploy the new 10kwh LiFePO4 battery...) and then it will be time to plan a new ground mount array, covering/patching the woodpecker holes in the house siding before they build nests, planning for a new roof, the wife's car is due for an oil change and mine needs new tires... and the wife and daughter currently have a dozen week old chicks in the laundry room. Oh, and that combined with the spring bulbs blooming in the garden means I need to get the lawnmower ready.
Hello everyone!