EasternTIGERS
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Hi everyone, Im curious as to how many of you all have a career/job that has to do with anything Electronics? If you could tell me how long you have been in the industry and id love to know?
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I have worked in the electronics industry all my working life, started on ground radar [RAF] in 1950, aged 17 years.
Operated my own electronics company for 25 years before I retired in 2005.
I was 77 last November.
Hi everyone, Im curious as to how many of you all have a career/job that has to do with anything Electronics? If you could tell me how long you have been in the industry and id love to know?
Thanks
I think you'll find that's over 20 years, it's now 2010.
Here's my career so far, if anyone's interested.
I did an apprenticeship in the electronics department at Hunting Engineering. The company then got bought by another company, Insys and at the end of my apprenticeship, it turned out there was no longer a vacancy for an electronics engineer so I did odd jobs around the company before finding a job as an electrical engineer. I was busy for about a year, then the work dried up, but the company kept me on, doing odd jobs and spending large periods of time doing nothing but posting on these forums and working on my own personal projects. The company then got bought again by Lockheed Martin, I then spent a year or so working on a boring project and my performance reviews were poor. Last summer the company was making many electrical engineers redundant and as I'd recently been offered a job elsewhere and I had a feeling they'd get rid of me anyway I took voluntary redundancy.
Unfortunately, the other job fell though, it turns out that they didn't need me after all, it was only a temporary contracting role so I accepted it. I was then unemployed for about six months before getting a job which was advertised as an electrical tester but turned out to be packing boxes. I told the manager that I thought it was supposed to be a testing role, not packing boxes and he told me I could work until the end of the week.
That was about a month ago and I've been looking since.
I've come to the conclusion that I don't want a really high paid job where I'm hassled and I have to stick to tight deadlines. I don't spend much money so there's no point in just earning loads of money I'm never going to spend anyway. I'd rather just get a fairly relaxed job which pays enough for me to get by on.
I don't see the point in studying for a degree, in electronics. The chances are I'll find half the work boring anyway so would either drop out or more likely do the bae minimum and get a mediocre grade. I also know full well that even if I got a decent grade, it'll be hard to find a good electronic job in the UK anyway.
I have worked in the electronics industry all my working life, started on ground radar [RAF] in 1950, aged 17 years.
Operated my own electronics company for 25 years before I retired in 2005.
I was 77 last November.
Aside from a wasted 7 years as a physics grad student, I've been a EE since 1986.