On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 02:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > That test was pretty close to the SB in terms of rating a child's IQ. We had > several who took it the same year I did that went on to do some unusual > things, and we topped the list, not in grades earned in school because most > of us were bored silly by school but 4 of that class made scores in the > middle 140's, with me at the top with 147. Had I known then what an > influence they would have, I would have quit doing electronics service and > wiggled into that door somehow. OTOH, electronics in general has been good > to me. I can't complain, and at 73, its too late to buy a new horse. When I formally studied electronics it was in a technical college as a teenager. Most of the other students were older than me, there were at least a couple I think had retired. They weren't the only ones doing it for their own interest's sake. Later on, I only continued doing the course for interest's sake - I was interested in engineering but was conned into a servicing course, instead. On the whole, I think things would have been better if I'd studied both areas, they're not the same, but they do dovetail. I see plenty of equipment that's badly engineered, that someone who had to repair it would have designed differently. And plenty of repairs that were done by someone who should have known a lot more about how to build things. You're probably better of working in electronics. I'm damn sure that I am. At least you know how things work, are supposed to work, and can make them obey. There's something very satisfying at seeing something you fixed twenty years ago, still going strong. I doubt we'd be able to say the same sort of thing about computing, at least these days... Integrity and reliability went out the window decades ago, so did knowing how it works. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
