You do actually come across pretty good at this kind of talk! Great to see something a little bit different in terms of presentation. Thanks for uploading this! 👍
I worked 12 years at a computer shop, when it closed i took it's name on . Knowing your value takes time. Especially of you start at dole level pay. Once you learn what your contacted work is being billed at to the end customer, you know how much you can get away with charging, especially if your work is what they're charging for
The importance of what Dave is conveying here cannot be ignored. And not just in EE but in all forms of engineering. Do shit, it shows you did more than regurgitate what the professor said. I took some EE courses as a non-EE student and was blown away that most of the EE students could not hook up a LED to a microcontroller.
Surprising as it can get, I've seen EE students coming to our local hackerspace who didn't have soldering skills. That's unthinkable to me. I bet they don't know squat about BJTs and never even saw vacuum tubes.
Yeah it's definitely a good idea to have something to show when you apply for these jobs. Something as simple as a personal website to show off and document your hobby projects would probably be nice to include on a resume.
I almost didn't get one job because my personal website was full of geeky electronic stuff and they thought I might be too nerdy. But they did give me the job in the end and I did well at it before I decided to move on quite a few years later.
Dave forgot to talk about "company politics" particularly the internal variant and all the nastiness going on around that. Also how to be social aware of your work environment, whos who, who is the psychopath top dog at the company , the long standing intrigues etc, etc , stuff that can and do grind engineers down etc, etc.
I think we had similar starts in electronics, though I was a later starter at about 10yo... I build a veroboard based "rain detector" that loudly squeeled in the middle of the night when it started to rain... much to my parents chagrin.
Re 250-in-One like project kits: there are no oak trees without acorns. My Dad bought me a Philips-based multi project kit for Christmas as a 9 year old. I can still remember building the AM radio, complete with tuning dial and cord, on Boxing Day. I don't think I was supposed to be able to build that for months of kit experience but I was so keen! My favourite was also the LDR based alarm project. I was fascinated with that LDR!
Holy crap, that's LOTS of insightful and interesting info - thanks a million for sharing! You had to explain fanout to a TEACHER? Oh for crying out loud, where is this world going to... I remember having a PCB done at a local manufacturing house in 2015. A panel of twelve of them (Raspberry Pi HATs) together with SMT parts and assembly - back then I didn't have the SMT soldering skills I have now - set me back something like 320PLN, or 80 euros, if I remember correctly. JLCPCB or PCBWay wasn't really a thing yet. Low cost lab videos? Oh maaaaaan, I really need to make a bunch of those. Running a little electronics lab on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces for over twenty years is something. Some gear sticked with me through all that time. And I've become quite a pack rat when it comes to utilizing every square decimeter of lab space, haha.
Just to let you know, you can easily go to any (most?) university in the US without living on campus. It just so happens most people don't live near the places they want to go to school, as school is more of a brand name thing. It also helps banks, landlords, universities fleece kids before they know what's happening.
That circuit class scenario sounds like the documentation (circuit diagram in that case) wasn't right for the project build. I remember before leaving A-Level physics _(British Isles),_ the class had a software which would probably look old by now but it did work, except for the fact the students did not know how to work it and had no written documentation. Having had a computing background, I took screenshots and typed out a guide on how to use it (in plain English) and gave it to a student and told other students that they could get that from the student I gave it to so the guys and gals could get their software and projects working. They'd be able to photocopy it. It came to pass that I wasn't going to get anything out of that class _(not that I haven't the background, as I can go brush up and do it)_ but I figured those students could have something nice out of it. I liked those guys. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
7:00 ChatGPT will automatically generate the Gantt chart given sufficient information and export it as .csv file. With 2 or 3 iterations of editing the csv, you get a professional result in less than 1h of planning. Thanks for sharing!
In the US not everyone lives on campus. And for the components buying. If you want to buy components from reputable suppliers (Digikey, Newark, Mouser) if you buy only a few components that are only about $1 or $2 then they charge you $10 for shipping.
Pt 2 of BS!... Due respect been a tech 40+yrs & it was different in my day so yeah, but I do mobile phone & laptop repairs at component level with stuff sent to me from long distances & 98.5% gets sent back fixed.
You do actually come across pretty good at this kind of talk! Great to see something a little bit different in terms of presentation. Thanks for uploading this! 👍
2:17 - The instructor's view was probably "Oh, fan-out, that's SO analog!"
I worked 12 years at a computer shop, when it closed i took it's name on
. Knowing your value takes time.
Especially of you start at dole level pay.
Once you learn what your contacted work is being billed at to the end customer, you know how much you can get away with charging, especially if your work is what they're charging for
The importance of what Dave is conveying here cannot be ignored. And not just in EE but in all forms of engineering. Do shit, it shows you did more than regurgitate what the professor said.
I took some EE courses as a non-EE student and was blown away that most of the EE students could not hook up a LED to a microcontroller.
Everything is a learned skill, some do pick it up faster than others though... and some do seem to have a lower cap.
Surprising as it can get, I've seen EE students coming to our local hackerspace who didn't have soldering skills. That's unthinkable to me. I bet they don't know squat about BJTs and never even saw vacuum tubes.
Yeah it's definitely a good idea to have something to show when you apply for these jobs. Something as simple as a personal website to show off and document your hobby projects would probably be nice to include on a resume.
I'd say that in modern times of on-line video interviews, it's a lot easier to do if you join the meeting from your lab and have some projects handy.
I almost didn't get one job because my personal website was full of geeky electronic stuff and they thought I might be too nerdy. But they did give me the job in the end and I did well at it before I decided to move on quite a few years later.
Thanks for sharing, Dave :D
Dave forgot to talk about "company politics" particularly the internal variant and all the nastiness going on around that. Also how to be social aware of your work environment,
whos who, who is the psychopath top dog at the company , the long standing intrigues etc, etc , stuff that can and do grind engineers down etc, etc.
Indeed.
I think we had similar starts in electronics, though I was a later starter at about 10yo... I build a veroboard based "rain detector" that loudly squeeled in the middle of the night when it started to rain... much to my parents chagrin.
Re 250-in-One like project kits: there are no oak trees without acorns.
My Dad bought me a Philips-based multi project kit for Christmas as a 9 year old. I can still remember building the AM radio, complete with tuning dial and cord, on Boxing Day. I don't think I was supposed to be able to build that for months of kit experience but I was so keen!
My favourite was also the LDR based alarm project. I was fascinated with that LDR!
awe love this! thanks Dave!
Yes, you are very enthusiastic! ... and know your stuff. Very easy to watch and learn. TY. 🍺🤠🇦🇺
lol. I remember the lab demonstrators telling the first years to turn their capacitors around. 😂
And not to throw fully charged 450v electrolytics to your colleagues as a prank!
Holy crap, that's LOTS of insightful and interesting info - thanks a million for sharing!
You had to explain fanout to a TEACHER? Oh for crying out loud, where is this world going to...
I remember having a PCB done at a local manufacturing house in 2015. A panel of twelve of them (Raspberry Pi HATs) together with SMT parts and assembly - back then I didn't have the SMT soldering skills I have now - set me back something like 320PLN, or 80 euros, if I remember correctly. JLCPCB or PCBWay wasn't really a thing yet.
Low cost lab videos? Oh maaaaaan, I really need to make a bunch of those. Running a little electronics lab on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces for over twenty years is something. Some gear sticked with me through all that time. And I've become quite a pack rat when it comes to utilizing every square decimeter of lab space, haha.
It does happen sometimes...
F**k yeah, Davo. I never even had a resume for the CNC and setout industry. I just got in there, a few hyuk hyuk's and talked tech and was hired.
Learnt something
Just to let you know, you can easily go to any (most?) university in the US without living on campus. It just so happens most people don't live near the places they want to go to school, as school is more of a brand name thing.
It also helps banks, landlords, universities fleece kids before they know what's happening.
That circuit class scenario sounds like the documentation (circuit diagram in that case) wasn't right for the project build. I remember before leaving A-Level physics _(British Isles),_ the class had a software which would probably look old by now but it did work, except for the fact the students did not know how to work it and had no written documentation. Having had a computing background, I took screenshots and typed out a guide on how to use it (in plain English) and gave it to a student and told other students that they could get that from the student I gave it to so the guys and gals could get their software and projects working. They'd be able to photocopy it. It came to pass that I wasn't going to get anything out of that class _(not that I haven't the background, as I can go brush up and do it)_ but I figured those students could have something nice out of it. I liked those guys.
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
7:00 ChatGPT will automatically generate the Gantt chart given sufficient information and export it as .csv file. With 2 or 3 iterations of editing the csv, you get a professional result in less than 1h of planning. Thanks for sharing!
In the US not everyone lives on campus. And for the components buying. If you want to buy components from reputable suppliers (Digikey, Newark, Mouser) if you buy only a few components that are only about $1 or $2 then they charge you $10 for shipping.
Your right, once you get into the workforce nobody really does look at your academic record.
As always though, YMMV.
HR do but the guys at the coalface don't GAF
it depends, if you go to international project your qualification goes a bit further, till your next stage where you actually got chartered,
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nice
i been folling your eevblog now 7 or 8 years love it to bits good work
Pt 2 of BS!... Due respect been a tech 40+yrs & it was different in my day so yeah, but I do mobile phone & laptop repairs at component level with stuff sent to me from long distances & 98.5% gets sent back fixed.