MOTM

> Sorry to those of you that were expecting shipments this week/Terry A.
>
> I was *fired* from my job without any warning whatsoever on Wed AM.
>
> I have been a bit 'shell-shocked' all week, just now getting sleep  
> (I didn't
> sleep for 30 hrs the first 2 days).
> The firing occurred the day after my nice 1 week vacation with my  
> wife to
> Arizona.
>
> Rather than go over and over why/how/etc I have to get back into  
> getting
> another job at age 54, what chances are
> will be a 20-30% pay cut (military electronics is well-paid). I  
> really don't
> want to be an FAE any more because
> it always includes sales droids that think I'm "not a good fit for  
> the team"
> which means "Paul won't put up with by BS".
>
> Anyway, what's done is done.
>
> I will have more time now for MOTM *in a sense*, because now my #1  
> priority
> is finding a new job here in a
> somewhat fragmented geographic location (I operated out of my
> house...nice!). I am strongly considering going
> back to school and becoming a Patent Lawyer or Patent Agent. This is  
> one
> area where age is NOT held against you,
> in many cases it's seen as a plus (in law, age = wise experience. In  
> many EE
> jobs, age = old guy that is clueless,
> probably uses DOS on a 286 and thinks Java is a coffee nickname).
>
> I am slowing getting 'back in the saddle' in the MOTM stuff. It will  
> take me
> 1 more week to get running back at full
> speed. Shane the tech is going to come over this week for ~ 15 hours  
> to help
> out. I'm going to have him
> kit up the last 5 remaining kits while I work on the assembled  
> backlog. He
> just finished up some assembled '800 boards
> and up next are '700 and more '440s. I still have a hold on the  
> '480s, I
> need to test  the pesky CA3280s (I was
> 2 hours away from starting that when I got "The Call.")
>
> I am ordering more rails and wire this coming week. I am going to  
> split the
> rail order between 2 new vendors hoping
> one of them can read a blueprint. I am ordering 100pr of rails, this  
> should
> last a while. The price of the wire has
> *doubled* but not much I can do there (4 pieces of coax = a 32-bit DSP
> chip).
>
> Please cut me a bit a slack this week as I get my head screwed on  
> straight
> and figure all this crap out.
>
> Paul S.
>
>
>
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>
> Hey Paul, sorry to hear.  I just got the same news too last week, but  
> they are extending my stay 3 months, supposedly time to find another  
> job.
> 
> Good luck to both of us.
> 
> Tony
> 
> Sent from my iphone
> 
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 8:43 PM, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to those of you that were expecting shipments this week/Terry A.
> >
> > I was *fired* from my job without any warning whatsoever on Wed AM.
> >
> > I have been a bit 'shell-shocked' all week, just now getting sleep  
> > (I didn't
> > sleep for 30 hrs the first 2 days).
> > The firing occurred the day after my nice 1 week vacation with my  
> > wife to
> > Arizona.