What was your first job out of college?

And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

 

[Charles]

<stacyr29@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Pumping gas. It was interesting because it was sort of like the show
"Cheers" with the repeat customers and all of the weird personalities.

Went to graduate school and ended up making a lot more money and retired
early. The gas station was actually more fun, but no money there.

Why do you ask?

 

[Jamie]

stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:

And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

Working at a text style mill in the electrical department where

I became the EE and thus upgraded the antique machines with modern
electronics thus, removing many of the hardware dependent apertures
of the machines.
Things were not as easy as they are now for electronic controls and
special devices. Back then, you had to design and build a lot of your
component assemblies in house. Doing the mechanical hardware engineering
was up to the machinists, which we had some very talented people working
there.

Then we graduated in to designing complete pieces of equipment etc.
Got a better job offer and then moved out of that state.

That was over 20 years ago. Now we work at a facility that not only
has a production operation going on continuously, they also have a
EE, ME department with a large machine and electronics work area for
staging of new equipment, maintenance and upgrades of existing.

We design and modify equipment that is used through out the rest of
our other locations.

We also do lots of military, some special and some generic. In many
cases, we have to design special devices to get the process of these
exotic products properly assembled and tested.

In between all of that, I had a several side adventures doing
embedded micro processor, analog devices where they were used in
products related mostly to computer interfaces and submitted many
to electronic manufactures. Now since every thing on that line is
made in China., that end of it has gone belly up..




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"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[John Popelish]

Jamie wrote:
(snip)

Then we graduated
(snip)
Now we work at a facility
(snip)
We design and modify equipment
(snip)
We also do lots of military, some special and some generic.
(snip)

How many are you? ;-)

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:16:52 -0400, Jamie wrote:

stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:

And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Working at a text style mill in the electrical department where I became
....

A "text style" mill? Is that, say, as opposed to a "graphics style" mill?

You wouldn't mean "textile", would you? ;-)

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Jamie]

John Popelish wrote:

Jamie wrote:
(snip)

Then we graduated

(snip)
Now we work at a facility
(snip)

We design and modify equipment

(snip)

We also do lots of military, some special and some generic.

(snip)

How many are you? ;-)
How many? what's that suppose to mean? Ok, I miss used the

term "WE" with "I".. I apologize.! English grammar was never
my strong point, even though it's my native tongue.
That's why I throw my reports over to the secretary for review
before I submit them.
After all, they are an appliance aren't they ?


--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[Jamie]

Rich Grise wrote:

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:16:52 -0400, Jamie wrote:

stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:


And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?


Working at a text style mill in the electrical department where I became

...

A "text style" mill? Is that, say, as opposed to a "graphics style" mill?

You wouldn't mean "textile", would you? ;-)

Thanks,
Rich

Hmm, looks like i'm not paying much attention to my spell checker.

guess I shouldn't be using the auto function. And I thought it
was such a good feature.

yes, you are correct, Textile mill. (years ago).

Thanks for bringing this little error up. I just turned off the
auto function.

I wonder how many other post i've made lately like that with out
first proof reading it.!
Oh well.

Bye for now.


--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Jamie wrote:

stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:

And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

Working at a text style mill

'Textile'


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Jamie wrote:

John Popelish wrote:

Jamie wrote:
(snip)

Then we graduated

(snip)
Now we work at a facility
(snip)

We design and modify equipment

(snip)

We also do lots of military, some special and some generic.

(snip)

How many are you? ;-)
How many? what's that suppose to mean? Ok, I miss used the
term "WE" with "I".. I apologize.! English grammar was never
my strong point, even though it's my native tongue.
That's why I throw my reports over to the secretary for review
before I submit them.
After all, they are an appliance aren't they ?

No, they aren't, and they shouldn't have to do your work.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Ross Herbert]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:48:54 -0400, Jamie
<jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:16:52 -0400, Jamie wrote:

stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:


And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?


Working at a text style mill in the electrical department where I
became

...

A "text style" mill? Is that, say, as opposed to a "graphics style"
mill?

You wouldn't mean "textile", would you? ;-)

Thanks,
Rich

Hmm, looks like i'm not paying much attention to my spell checker.
guess I shouldn't be using the auto function. And I thought it
was such a good feature.

For this sort of typo the spell checker is no good since both words,
"text" and "style", are valid, and spelled correctly.
>

 

[HapticZ]

do wonder how many military projects documents have been released with
correct spell but with completely non contextual content?


"Jamie" <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote in message
news:8RYKi.105$HU7.23@newsfe12.lga...

Rich Grise wrote:

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:16:52 -0400, Jamie wrote:

stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:


And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?


Working at a text style mill in the electrical department where I became

...

A "text style" mill? Is that, say, as opposed to a "graphics style"
mill?

You wouldn't mean "textile", would you? ;-)

Thanks,
Rich

Hmm, looks like i'm not paying much attention to my spell checker.
guess I shouldn't be using the auto function. And I thought it
was such a good feature.

yes, you are correct, Textile mill. (years ago).

Thanks for bringing this little error up. I just turned off the
auto function.

I wonder how many other post i've made lately like that with out
first proof reading it.!
Oh well.

Bye for now.


--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[Jamie]

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jamie wrote:

John Popelish wrote:


Jamie wrote:
(snip)


Then we graduated

(snip)
Now we work at a facility
(snip)


We design and modify equipment

(snip)


We also do lots of military, some special and some generic.

(snip)

How many are you? ;-)

How many? what's that suppose to mean? Ok, I miss used the
term "WE" with "I".. I apologize.! English grammar was never
my strong point, even though it's my native tongue.
That's why I throw my reports over to the secretary for review
before I submit them.
After all, they are an appliance aren't they ?




No, they aren't, and they shouldn't have to do your work.

Well, if that was the case, she'd be out of a job.

--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[Jamie]

HapticZ wrote:

do wonder how many military projects documents have been released with
correct spell but with completely non contextual content?

I don't submit reports for military branches. QC, PD and Process

Engineering handle that area.

I'm in the area where we(the group) have to design, upgrade or
modify production equipment to manufacture the products the military buy
from us among of course, non-military customers. We did have a special case
at one time where a special piece of equipment had to be made to generate
this military product. After the product was complete, tested and
varified. As part of the contract, we had to destroy the machine
afterwards and show proof of destruction.
I never understood that.


--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Jamie wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jamie wrote:

John Popelish wrote:


Jamie wrote:
(snip)


Then we graduated

(snip)
Now we work at a facility
(snip)


We design and modify equipment

(snip)


We also do lots of military, some special and some generic.

(snip)

How many are you? ;-)

How many? what's that suppose to mean? Ok, I miss used the
term "WE" with "I".. I apologize.! English grammar was never
my strong point, even though it's my native tongue.
That's why I throw my reports over to the secretary for review
before I submit them.
After all, they are an appliance aren't they ?




No, they aren't, and they shouldn't have to do your work.



Well, if that was the case, she'd be out of a job.

It sounds like they should keep her and get rid of you, if she's
doing both jobs.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:54:29 -0700, stacyr29@yahoo.com wrote:

And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

Electronics design engineer. Same thing as I've always done. It's been
fun so far.

John

 

[Nobody]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:07:32 +0000, Ross Herbert wrote:

A "text style" mill? Is that, say, as opposed to a "graphics style"
mill?

You wouldn't mean "textile", would you? ;-)

Hmm, looks like i'm not paying much attention to my spell checker.
guess I shouldn't be using the auto function. And I thought it
was such a good feature.

For this sort of typo the spell checker is no good since both words,
"text" and "style", are valid, and spelled correctly.

AFAICT, the issue is that the spell-checker didn't just detect the typo,
but tried to fix it (incorrectly).

My guess is that the original was something like "textyle".

Auto-correction is usually a bad idea. For anything other than the most
obvious typos (e.g. "teh"), not only is the chance of the replacement
being wrong high, but an incorrect replacement is likely to be more
confusing than if the original typo had been left intact.

 

[Jamie]

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jamie wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:


No, they aren't, and they shouldn't have to do your work.



Well, if that was the case, she'd be out of a job.



It sounds like they should keep her and get rid of you, if she's
doing both jobs.


Oh well, No one is complaining. And no, she doesn't do my job, she does

what she was hired for.




--
"I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken"
Real Programmers Do things like this.
http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Jamie wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jamie wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:


No, they aren't, and they shouldn't have to do your work.



Well, if that was the case, she'd be out of a job.



It sounds like they should keep her and get rid of you, if she's
doing both jobs.


Oh well, No one is complaining. And no, she doesn't do my job, she does
what she was hired for.

You said she was doing your work.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Paul E. Schoen]

<stacyr29@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1190919269.128883.211120@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...

And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

While I went to college, I worked at the same company where my father
worked, and I was variously employed as a draftsman/illustrator, technical
writer (for a military manual), and QC inspector. When I left college, I
worked at this same place as a draftsman, at a very low hourly wage. I
often helped one of the other draftsmen to do his job, and when I found out
he was making about twice what I was, I asked for a raise. It was refused,
because the personnel director said that the other draftsman had a family
to support, while I was still living at home and didn't need the money.
IIRC, I quit immediately.

So, I found a job supervising newspaper boys selling new subscriptions, at
a higher pay than I was getting, and then I found a better job as a
draftsman again at a job-shop. Their contract ended and I enjoyed
unemployment for 26 weeks.

Three years out of college, after also running a part-time TV/stereo repair
business, I got a "real" job as an instrument technician, and about three
years later, I became an electronics design engineer, which was what I
always wanted to do. The company was sold 15 years later, to a company in
Dallas, but I didn't want to relocate (or work for them), so in 1989 I
started my own business in electronic design (www.pstech-inc.com), and
still enjoy it.

Paul

 

[Al in Dallas]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:23:22 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
<pstech@smart.net> wrote:

stacyr29@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1190919269.128883.211120@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

While I went to college, I worked at the same company where my father
worked, and I was variously employed as a draftsman/illustrator, technical
writer (for a military manual), and QC inspector. When I left college, I
worked at this same place as a draftsman, at a very low hourly wage. I
often helped one of the other draftsmen to do his job, and when I found out
he was making about twice what I was, I asked for a raise. It was refused,
because the personnel director said that the other draftsman had a family
to support, while I was still living at home and didn't need the money.
IIRC, I quit immediately.

So, I found a job supervising newspaper boys selling new subscriptions, at
a higher pay than I was getting, and then I found a better job as a
draftsman again at a job-shop. Their contract ended and I enjoyed
unemployment for 26 weeks.

Three years out of college, after also running a part-time TV/stereo repair
business, I got a "real" job as an instrument technician, and about three
years later, I became an electronics design engineer, which was what I
always wanted to do. The company was sold 15 years later, to a company in
Dallas, but I didn't want to relocate (or work for them), so in 1989 I
started my own business in electronic design (www.pstech-inc.com), and
still enjoy it.

It took you SIX years to get the job you were educated to do?

--
Al in St. Lou