My God...Look What Ive Started
Egads...look what Ive started!!!
Ive Gone away for a few weeks after posting a cute little comment on retarded students, and now I return to find that it has blossomed into some sort of forum regarding intellect being measured by the knowledge and use of 555's...EGADS, I gotta watch what I post.
Now to add my 2 cents worth in regards to electronics education, I truly respect elctronic engineers and their knowledge and skills. That being said...a early poster stated that he had troubles finding a job in electronics without a diploma. I am self-taught in electronics, starting when I received my first 100 in 1 kit at Christmas, and took it in High-School. I have never found it difficult finding a good paying job, although I have had it in some strange places that most people would have looked. I created Special Effects in films for over 20 years (lotsa Motion Control systems built for camera control, Servos in monster heads, blinky lights, led illumination, and gadgets in Robocop, and literally hindreds of gadgets in hundreds of other big budget films). After the great movie making slowdown in Canada lately, I found work repairing electronics in professional food service equipment, then repairing electronics in esspresso machines. My first job was replacing leds in digits of about 100 incorrectly soldered "Number Being Served" displays. The old analogue electronics knowledge came in handy repairing elderly european equipment...most of which being built long before the invention of the Microcontroller.
Now, all this being said, I could have made a hell of a lot more money, and found far better jobs with a University degree in electronics...so I would never try to dissuade someone from achieving one.
UMMM Resistor color code......HMMMMM....Black, Brown.....UMMMM Roy...ummmm... G... ummmmmm..Biv
I think the lack if knowledge of resisitor color codes damaging ones chances of hiring is a bit short-sighted and daffy. Im more concerned that my co-workers dont clean out the mornings doughnut run before I get a stab at it.