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| hugjior:
--- Quote from: Miyuki on May 18, 2022, 07:16:37 am ---Having your own projects/portfolio is a great thing. A lab can help with it. Also, you can work as a contractor/freelance in your lab or take smaller projects to the "home office" (is home lab a thing?) I'm planning to expand my lab as I work from home. So I get paid for doing my hobby :-+ But it can be a hustle to convince a company to do this work in your own lab. They are scared of you stealing the precious designs you developed and they send them to manufacture in Asia :-DD --- End quote --- I would say that having a portfolio is a must. If you are thinking about starting practicing, not only learning theory - you're definitely on the right way. You need to try doing something by yourself, just gonig to college and getting a degree is not enough. The educational system nowadays works really bad, so you should be prepared that studying at college may be useless. I went 3 years to college, and was always buying my homeworks, essays and stuff from sites like https://studymoose.com/essay-types/satire-essays and I don't regret it at all. I didn't lose any important knowledge. I was working instead of it, and it was a correct choice. |
| El Rubio:
I’m an RF Engineer and work in wireless communications and have always had a workbench ( you guys like the term “lab”). That, and an amateur radio license helped me be more of an RF guru on some topics. Not just having the license, but a practicing operator. I made all of my antennas and worked on some local repeaters as well as other projects. The engineers I work with mostly push statistics and let the computer design their installations. Having a parallel hobby has given me troubleshooting skills as well as real-world experience with things like Intermodulation Distortion and spurious emissions, propagation issues, etc. The engineers I speak of are not slouches, but work in an environment where the machines do all of the work. Some don’t have practical experience because it isn’t required. They are smart guys that see it as a job with no passion for it. I get selected for projects and hands-on applications often and it is partly because of the basic skills and knowledge that those hobbies add. I say chase your hobby and like others have said here, it will open doors that may surprise you. |
| free_electron:
when hiring for the interesting jobs , companies are looking for something that sets you apart from the rest. passing academics, while it can be hard, creates cookie cutter people. have 10 people that passed the same class , from the same professor, from the same school, with top score , and they all are roughly the same. same skill, knowledge and mentality. so which one to hire ? The one that has done the most interesting other stuff and shown his abilities. so from that perspective , tinkering with stuff and showing it can be a differentiator. on the other hand , of they are only looking for someone to click a button blindly it doesn't matter. |
| CatalinaWOW:
Having a home lab is not important, though it can be useful. Putting the theories you learn in school and elsewhere to practical use, learning their limitations and all of the myriad realities of real devices is both important and useful. |
| free_electron:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on July 29, 2022, 12:20:58 pm --- Putting the theories you learn in school and elsewhere to practical use, learning their limitations and all of the myriad realities of real devices is both important and useful. --- End quote --- and where do you do that ? hint : three letter word ... begins with l , ends with b and has first letter of alphabet in middle. |
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