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| This isn't fun anymore. All my projects are on hold. |
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| Marco:
No, because this would just be a temporary intervention to calm the market and prevent hoarding. Stock being dumped is very unlikely to create any economic problems at the moment. Price controls have their own issues, but I'd consider it the lesser evil for the moment. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: AaronLee on July 19, 2021, 02:10:02 am ---I hear you in how the situation can be depressing. In my experience, I've always found it best to use dead time to learn about new technologies and things I've always wanted to study about but never had time. Then when things pick up again, you have some new abilities to be able to do even more. --- End quote --- Yup. That is what I'm doing right now. Surprisingly parts for a new project I'm working on are still availble :-+ |
| m98:
Even worse if you beg your client to actually stock up the parts used for one production run in advance and he insists on waiting for compliance testing and all firmware bugs getting ironed out first, with the result of a quarter of the parts becoming unobtanium in the mean time and me having to redesign everything... :scared: |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: rx8pilot on July 18, 2021, 11:48:21 pm ---I love electronics and do it for fun and for a living. The sad part is that the current state of the supply chain is so draining that I am dreading any electronics work. Of the three major professional projects I have been working on for over a year - all on indefinite hold. At first I tried part substitutions. Then altering the design based on parts I could get. At some point, I just figured that I was chasing my tail with zero guarantee production quantities. Kills the bottom line and destroys my interest. How many small businesses are turning into dust with these problems? Anyone looking for a career change right now? --- End quote --- It's currently bad for many of us. As others here, I would certainly not suggest any career change. That's a decision that you would need to make for yourself with your own rationale only, and for other reasons than just a temporary difficulty (even though at this point I cant tell how temporary it's going to be really...) Of course, one option (if you can "afford" that in terms of finances) is to focus on longer-term projects. If you can't get ahold of many parts these days, you can still design. So you could embark on this project that maybe you had always postponed because you had no time, it was less certain than others, etc. You could also focus on parts that are not hardware-dependent (at least to an extent), such as firmware development, HDL, etc. If those are not strong points of yours, maybe you could take this time as an opportunity to learn. |
| langwadt:
--- Quote from: georges80 on July 19, 2021, 12:56:29 am ---We're going to see some killer inflation over the next year or so. --- End quote --- If you think so run out and borrow as much money as you can, the interest rate at the moment is basically zero |
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