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This isn't fun anymore. All my projects are on hold.
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SiliconWizard:

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--- Quote from: rx8pilot on July 18, 2021, 11:48:21 pm ---Anyone looking for a career change right now?
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The only other thing I can do for income is front-of-house mixing for rock bands.

Talk about an industry that was killed dead.

(I have a couple of shows scheduled for November. Maybe we'll actually do them.)

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I'd expect that industry to boom soon, people have 1.5year of build up hunger for concerts

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I'd be "cautious" about the "soon" here.
Someone:

--- Quote from: peter-h on July 19, 2021, 10:26:52 pm ---- some "2022" lead times being revised to much sooner (just got one today)
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Yes, this blip is into the unstable phase as people who booked in long term orders (worried that supply restrictions would drag on) are now cancelling and the product arrives back into the open market. Same experience here with several parts I was watching for late 2022 are now in stock and available normally.
EEVblog:
One of the problems is that designers and manufacturers are snapping up all the stock they can get thier hands on. JIT (Just In Time) methodology has gone out the window.
This mean you are forced to do the same, and very quickly there is nothing left. It's a self perpetuating guarantee. It's equivalent to the great toilet paper rushes of 2020.

This too shall pass:
rx8pilot:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 20, 2021, 01:38:15 am ---One of the problems is that designers and manufacturers are snapping up all the stock they can get thier hands on. JIT (Just In Time) methodology has gone out the window.
This mean you are forced to do the same, and very quickly there is nothing left.

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The places where I got busted is getting through a design, proto, and test so that I can order a production supply of parts. I didn't feel like I could rough-in a schematic and then just buy a years worth of parts against it.

I am not giving up on electronics, but actively pursuing some of my mechanical product concepts to buy myself some time. Not sure how well that will work out, but it sure beats just staring at empty part bins and a pick-and-place machine with cobwebs on it.  :scared:

AndyC_772:

--- Quote from: langwadt on July 19, 2021, 09:49:45 pm ---I'd expect that industry to boom soon, people have 1.5year of build up hunger for concerts

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You'd think so, but I'm not so sure it's the case in practice.

Here in the UK the cinemas reopened a few weeks ago and my local multiplex had its first showing of a repeatedly delayed Hollywood blockbuster. You'd think there would have been pent up demand, but I went along on the first day and there were no more than about 20 people in a theatre with more than 10 times that capacity. It was a pretty surreal experience.

The concerts I know of aren't selling out either. There's still tickets available for a festival I'm going to in September which should have taken place early last year and has been deferred twice now.
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