Education questions.

[Barry L Klein]

I wasn't going to "say" anything but...
I'm a supertech at WDC and wish they'd move into a position where I could
shake things up and make things happen.  Engineering isn't a match
because:  A) I don't have the education and you need that  B) I tend to
ask "why don't we...." or "what if..."  C) I don't like being told what to
do all the time and accepting a task that I think is totally bullshit or a
waste of time  D) I hate political BS     From my experience, I don't know
why US companies have middle management....    and its pretty obvious you
don't have a set of requirements to get there, just luck and karma.   But
moving from a technician position usually requires getting a degree or
some self-employed effort.  Its like a brick wall.   

Right now, with our downsizing, I'm trying to move up by the process of
elimination of all the people above me....

And Tim (or others), if you have experience with the new Playstation 2 and
how it works with 1394 I'd like to communicate privately...

;-)
Barry

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From: 	Tim Daugard[SMTP:daugard at sprintmail.com]
Sent: 	Monday, March 06, 2000 10:28 AM
To: 	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
Subject: 	Re: Education questions.

>From: KA4HJH <ka4hjh at gte.net>
>Subject: Re: Education questions. (NOT FAIR)


>What's always bugged the hell out of me is when they take the best
>tech off the bench and make him middle management--which he has no
>talent for whatsoever.

However that tech can grow in management. There is no paths open to move a
tech into engineering. With out the diploma, you are not an engineer. At
least this is what I heard for 20+ years as a tech. My technical
experience
let me move into management where they needed someone that could
understand
what the engineers were talking about. Soon I was defending the budgets
that
paid the engineers.

EEs are wonderful, have lots of fun playing with all the shiny equipment
and
make the world go round (Sony play station 2 just launched). But
management
is necessary also. So get the degree in whatever you want and figure out
how
to live the life you want.

Tim Daugard
{Who works with money and plays at electronics - engineering and
construction. Any one want to sort through 200 1.8k resistors to find 37
that match?}