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Wayward EE lost and lamenting
coppice:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 06, 2020, 12:41:59 pm ---Incidentally, one office-speak I hate is "What are the takeaways today?".
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That's an odd thing to object to. Isn't summarising the conclusions of a discussion of value?
CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 06, 2020, 12:41:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on October 05, 2020, 07:39:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: NSCI0T7 on October 05, 2020, 05:29:30 pm ---Someone once told me all the good analog engineers are 50+, and they're going to be retiring soon. I don't know how true that is.
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It isn't. Most analog engineers I have encountered have been parked in meaningless jobs because there is no more work for them. Given the chance they do come up with brilliant circuits but those are not in high demand.
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Most electronics engineers in general are parked in meaningful jobs, with meaningless recognition of their value. If you know jack schitt about electronics but am an expert at playing politics, plagiarising, talking BS much of the time including office-speak, and have a humongous ego, you can do really well. Incidentally, one office-speak I hate is "What are the takeaways today?". I once answered, "A dollars worth of chips, two dim sims and one potato cake" (An Aussie version of "a Big Mac, fries and coke"). I hate office-speak, especially that one which will hopefully fade away.
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This bothered me a lot less when I realized that the skills you are denigrating are rarer than EE skills. And finding someone who is willing to do them instead of electronics are rarer still, as evidenced by the OP in this column. And while the particular elements you name are not actually of high value to organizations they tend to be associated with skills and behaviors that do have value. For example plagiarizing often turns out to be translating an unreadable, overly long document written by an engineer who hated grammar classes and wanted to get on with "real work" into something intelligible by non-technical types. And few corporate documents follow academia's hallowed traditions of attribution.
Economics rules. When supply of those who want to do engineering exceeds demand jobs and/or salaries go down.
NSCI0T7:
Thanks for the reflection. I'm now considering going for an MBA. Electrical engineering, you have failed me.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: NSCI0T7 on October 09, 2020, 04:13:56 am ---Thanks for the reflection. I'm now considering going for an MBA. Electrical engineering, you have failed me.
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Oh man.
Can you honestly say that there is nothing good you can take away from it?
CatalinaWOW:
Nothing wrong with that decision, as long as you can honestly project that in a couple of years you won't be posting a similar plaint about management.
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