[sdiy] May run class again this Spring

[Don Tillman]

   > From: "Josh Forgione" <jbuckf50 at hotmail.com>
   > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:50:49 +0000
   > 
   > Analog synthesizer building is now a very niche field.  College
   > students deserve educational opportunities to gain skills which
   > are relevant in the workplace.

Huh?  Most college courses have no relevance to the workplace.  I
mean, they don't call it "academia" for nuthin'.

   > That's not to devalue the analog education.  The lessons learned
   > via analog design are priceless, especially if you want to be a
   > hardware engineer.

And other fields too... My day job is software engineering, and I'm
hiring right now, and if I see a resume with an EE background,
especially with some analog, I know that they applicant is not just
another software engineer with an an understanding that's been
abstracted, isolated and removed from the reality of how the processor
really works.  

(Yes, I'm serious; if you're looking for work in the San Francisco Bay
area and you have expertise in web-based UI software development, send
me a resume.)

   > But fundamentally a person looking for a career in the audio
   > industry will have an easier time finding work with a digital/dsp
   > background.  

More fundamentally, a person looking for a career in the audio
industry will have an easier time finding work in another industry.
:-)

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don at till.com
http://www.till.com