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Outside electronics, what other qualifications/experience do you have?
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: james_s on September 19, 2020, 06:28:20 am ---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.
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Over here, no-one ever asked me for my ham license whenever I bought equipment, and I have been licensed since 1982. Retailers in Australia like Dick Smith Electronics would sell stuff to anyone, no proof of license required. Only in medical electronics has anyone asked for proof of my degree. Absolutely no-one has ever asked me for evidence that I am a trained children's shoes fitter, not even the wife, and that really hurts :'(.
Quarlo Klobrigney:
A bachelors degree in Gender Studies and Drama :-DD
Howardlong:
--- Quote from: Quarlo Klobrigney on September 19, 2020, 12:58:46 pm ---A bachelors degree in Gender Studies and Drama :-DD
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In some places nowadays, you’d be overqualified.
GlennSprigg:
I had my own photographic business, many years ago. (As a break between elect/electronic work. Lifelong hobby).
This was the days still of real film! Had my own dark-rooms at home, and a 'studio'. Most of my work was 'commercial', receiving
pallets of china-ware and the like, to make catalogues & posters etc for sales companies. Though I also eventually included doing
weddings, and football teams etc, including making large frames. I also loved making 'old-world' Black & White/Sepia Toning photos
for a lot of people. Loved the old 'hands-on' B&W creations in my dark-room!! ;D
It's a bit of a 'crass' industry, something like the 'jewelery' business! Some people/companies 'expect' to pay a lot, and if/when I
under-charged/quoted, they thought it was too cheap. But I had no overheads, and no 'big-head'. Once, a company I was talking
to just wanted 4 photos/posters of some goods. (2 hours to set up, and a few hundred total costs). I said... "$1000..." and he then
immediately said "do it!"... so with split second thinking I continued... "deposit, and another $800 on delivery!" 8)
He said... "Oh yea, no worries. Will deliver the goods tomorrow. Must have the results in 3 days! Thanks".
Just because he answered so quick. ^-^
Ground_Loop:
Before settling into EE I was a restaurant chef, car valet at a country club, and built landscape retaining walls. Moving to the military, I ran nuclear reactors on an aircraft carrier and maintained instrumentation. Since the military, got EE and MBA and have spent many years developing industrial control and process systems.
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