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Outside electronics, what other qualifications/experience do you have?

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indeterminatus:

--- Quote from: eti on September 17, 2020, 05:20:25 am ---I'm immediately suspicious of anyone attributing "expert" to *themselves*, and I find it far more acceptable as a title attributed to oneself by others.

--- End quote ---

In the software world, it often goes like this (this is not just a meme, it happened to me first-hand, several times, and I suspect I'll be susceptible to it countless times in the future):

Someone: Hey, I hear you are the expert for <pick arbitrary technology> in the company? How would I go about <insert in-depth question about that technology>?

Self: Erm, what?

Someone: Well, I was looking at <insert code snippet>, and saw you made some changes to it.

Self: Yeah, the build was broken because some library changed and it wasn't reflected there. I merely got this back to a compiling state. I hope I did not break anything for you? According to the library's documentation, this seemed to be the way to go, and the tests still passed, so ...

Someone: Yeah, you know more than I do, which makes you the expert here. The guy who wrote this in the first place left the company four years ago.

I suspect you EE guys have similar stories ... it's as easy as making a small change somewhere to become "the expert".  ::)

Kilo Tango:
I am a qualified welder. 

Go to do something to boost earnings of EE's !.

Ken

Nominal Animal:
I designed the very first set of collectors cards for the Finnish Defence Forces in 1997; 9 cards, one set in Finnish, and the other in English, showcasing some of the equipment and the defence Minister, to be handed off to people at Tattoo and other such PR events.  I still have a few sets as mementoes.

james_s:
I'm a certified HVAC technician. I've never done it for a living but I took the online course and got certified so I could buy R-22 refrigerant and (legally) install and service A/C and heat pump systems. Funny thing is that nobody has ever asked me to show proof of certification when I've bought it, even though they all have a sign that says you have to have it. I also hold a technician class ham radio license.

Howardlong:
Very early on in my career, I went to the other side and did software, at that time I couldn’t see myself making much money in electronics in the UK. This took me organically into financial enterprise systems just when PCs were taking over from green screens, and client-server technology was in its infancy. As a result for most of the last 30 years I’ve designed, developed, maintained and supported financial trading systems on a consultancy basis. Today’s engagement is as a “full stack developer”, although I’m much more a back end guy, I’m pretty useless when it comes to UIs.

I also do a lot more electronics work, but that’s for my own products, and while both sides of my business ebb and flow, they tend to support each other, although the majority of my income for the past ten years has derived from the electronics design and manufacturing side. The electronics side is mixed signal RF, from DSP algorithm development to board layout, much of it in aerospace. “Full stack” as the softies would say,

For about three years, around 2012, I semi-retired and did some mid life crisis things. Fearing I would be left behind technically speaking, and finding my life was rather insular, missing the day to day interactions with others, I was asked by an old customer to help them out of a hole for six weeks, but I ended up there for three years, and have since continued picking up further contracts elsewhere.

On the side, I play saxophone to a reasonable standard, fly single engined piston planes, and enjoy dining out at fancy restaurants more than is strictly necessary.

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