RitaGB I’ve never understood the rationale for going to college with no career in mind. I knew what I wanted to do for a career before I entered college. After high school, and even two semesters in high school, I got into electronics. I found a job as an electronics technician and started working in the wonderful world of electronics troubleshooting. At night, I attended college at UCCS, headed for a BSEE. After four years of working, school, and little sleep, I had the BSEE. The place I was working had no open positions for a freshly-minted engineer, so I started looking around. They asked me to stay and offered more money than a tech got paid, but I loved the work of design, both fresh & retrofit. My luck was still holding on and I was offered a teaching position at the college as a part-time instructor for the elementary basics. At night I went to electronics design classes. Two years later I had the diploma for MSEE! I spent the next ~41 years working at Hewlett-Packard and Ampex (11 years at HP and 30yrs at Ampex). Ampex wanted me to transfer to their corporate operations in Redwood City, California. I was dead set against that, and I asked if I would be shown the door if I refused the RWC gig. They said absolutely not, that I was considered valuable. I chose to stay in Colorado Springs, and it worked out well. Ampex was good to me. Even so, when I hit 65 years of age, I joined the ranks of the retired.
If the kid can’t handle college, he won’t be worth spit in electronics!! Both take a very good mind, drive, and determination. Electronics even more than college.
RitaGB I’ve never understood the rationale for going to college with no career in mind. I knew what I wanted to do for a career before I entered college. After high school, and even two semesters in high school, I got into electronics. I found a job as an electronics technician and started working in the wonderful world of electronics troubleshooting. At night, I attended college at UCCS, headed for a BSEE. After four years of working, school, and little sleep, I had the BSEE. The place I was working had no open positions for a freshly-minted engineer, so I started looking around. They asked me to stay and offered more money than a tech got paid, but I loved the work of design, both fresh & retrofit. My luck was still holding on and I was offered a teaching position at the college as a part-time instructor for the elementary basics. At night I went to electronics design classes. Two years later I had the diploma for MSEE! I spent the next ~41 years working at Hewlett-Packard and Ampex (11 years at HP and 30yrs at Ampex). Ampex wanted me to transfer to their corporate operations in Redwood City, California. I was dead set against that, and I asked if I would be shown the door if I refused the RWC gig. They said absolutely not, that I was considered valuable. I chose to stay in Colorado Springs, and it worked out well. Ampex was good to me. Even so, when I hit 65 years of age, I joined the ranks of the retired.