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[CHoaglin at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/23/00 3:40:58 AM, cyborg_0 at iquest.net writes:

<< 

So, such is the market world. My advice: Get your piece of the pie anyway

you can, be willing to *elaborate* a bit (just be sure to know your limits),

and do anything you can to get a piece of the pie. The work enviroment IMHO

is extremely hostile. If you treat it like life or death, you will generally

do alright, because it *is* life and death, but on a very subtle scale. >>


I have a different strategy...which is basically screw getting an engineering 
position and being a tech. I'm working on my BSEE right now, attending 
Northeastern University full time and living there in a dorm, in case I ever 
change my mind in the future, but I plan to do what I've been doing as long 
as the money keeps rolling in, which is selling used electronic gear of all 
kinds on Ebay and elsewhere. Getting a degree, to me, is just more knowledge 
I can apply when screwing around with junk I find and building stuff for 
myself....I can't see myself working 9-5 anytime soon, and there's really no 
monetary incentive for me to do so...I made almost as much money going 
through dumpsters in the past year as those tech jobs you mentioned pay, and 
that was doing it part time while I was doing my senior year of high school. 
It's been really good, as it's great exercise, quite lucrative, and provides 
me with an endless supply of new junk to play with. I know a guy who does 
something similar on a larger scale, and he's making a good $200K or so, I'd 
say (I don't know exactly, but he did pay off a $90,000 house in 6 months)


Chris