Well, I most definetely like electronics design, whatever that may involve, although I have a bias towards power electronics. I do like what I do, it's just the boundary conditions that I don't like. The fact that I work long hours ultimately is my fault, but there is peer preassure to do so. With regards to my boss, I think he is a good guy, but he's so damned stressed all the time, he's just hard to deal with.
- He doesn't answer emails (I suspect most of the time he doesn't even read them), and many times he simply doesn't pay attention to what you say.
- When I arrive to the office he won't say "hi" back although I try to be loud and clear.
- He minimizes efforts (although he claims to hate people that do that), like "what is this task gonna take you 2 hours right". One time I had to go to one of my experienced co-workers because I was assigned 2 days for something that was way to hard to complete in that time, we went to the board, made a fine break-down of the tasks and reached to the conclusion that it couldn't take less than 3 weeks. He went to my boss and negotiated it for me.
- He comes to you and tells you something, then he forgets, and tells you the opposite or pretends he never said anything. It's frustrating.
What sucks is that he is a really fine engineer and has a ton of technical skills. He has experienced all these things himself in the past. It is confusing to me why he would act like these.
I am gaining a lot of knowledge, that's why I haven't gave up on the job yet. I don't what I'm going to do next, but at least now I know what not to look for in a job. I appreciate everybody's input, I'll consider it for my next gig, whatever that may be.
Cheers!