Come on down (again). Always room for more Evil folks here.

Sounds like a pretty cool job. Get to stay busy, work in a lot of different environments/jobs and sounds like never the same thing day to day. That makes if nice, when your job is not monotonous. Plus you get to wear cover-alls.

~Rob

 

Dr. Evil - one of the many hats I wear is Chief Metrologist for the Field Services Calibration Lab. Since we are a large computer services company somebody has to keep the field equipment calibrated and repaired and thankfully they don't want to pay a third-party service to do what we can do in-house. We do not do process equipment but I do run a sweet suite of automated electrical and power quality calibrators.

With the demise of the military cal labs there are alot less qualified and experienced calibration techs available. If anybody out there is good at hands-on mechanicing and understands electrical principles and is looking for an alternate job path I would suggest maybe looking into calibration technician training. I have had to "grow my own" from the lab tech they hired - he is eager to learn so it has not been to hard to get him up to speed.

 

Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado 2002,
Master's of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado in progress
MBA in Technology Management, University of Colorado in progress

Had a ton of fun as an undergrad. There was a group of us E.E.'s that always used to study, eat, and party together and we too had our own room at the college that was used for lectures in the morning. We practically lived in there our entire undergrad carrers but it sure fun to leave derivations of Maxwell's equations and Fourier transforms on the board for freshman E.E.'s to ponder. I'm sure we contributed to a few E.E.'s dropouts too

 

Shoulda been a 1982 Cougar High Grad (University of Houston)with a major in ME and minor in Architecture....But alas, while working in the field of mechanical engineering while going to school (designing A/C for Saudi cities and high rises in big cities around the world), I decided to forego my full scholarship and design full time.

Have thought about going back to finish what would have been 22 hours of class time back then just for grins, but owning your own A/C company just doesn't allow for enough time to fit a school schedule in along with a wifey schedule and Jr. schedule.

Have never regretted my decision, and have never had to look for a job since.....


Gary

 

I'm headin' down the mechanical engineering road. I just can't make up my mind if I want to take all 4 years at Michigan Tech. Or I could do my first year at Mankato State (a couple hours south of where I live) and then finish the other 3 at Michigan Tech. I'd save about $11,000 by taking my first year at Mankato. But, either way I am pretty excited, I hope to work for Blizzard (the plow company) or Polaris or Artic Cat up in Northern MN.

 

It took me 3 semesters to earn a degree in Campusology at the University of Arkansas back in 1965-67. I graduated with honors. I finally went to work for an electric utility company and spent the next 32 years taking correspondence courses, computer courses, and company training courses.

 

heres what i get to play with at work
http://www.fmcsgvs.com/content/products/side_reach.htm
http://www.egeminusa.com/agvs_unitload.htm
the egemin video on the left was taken at honda
this is what they use instead of forklifts at honda. they are alot safer than a bunch of forklifts running around. we have 60 egemins and 30 fmc agvs. this is my first job after graduating college i plan on going back to get my bachelors so i can get into programming the weld robots

 

Yeah Rob, it is a pretty good job with a fair biit of variety. It certainly pays more than any other job Ive had before. It actually sounds better than it is....hot, dirty and dusty work - biggest problem is that the job is in the middle of nowhere....two+ hours to anything. It will do until I can get out of here.

 

Interesting....I have done some lab type instrument work, some analytical research and development, and some environmental monitoring instrumentation.....NO, NOX, SO2 etc.

By the way, getting back to your post on the first page - congrats on finishing that engineering degree. All the blood, sweat and tears will be worth it in the end when you can put P. Eng. behind your name. Its hard enough to get an engineering degree going to school full time, let alone working fulltime, and juggling school and family as well. I take my hat off to you. And hope your wife is doing ok....

 

Associates Degree - Instructional Technology
Community College of the Air Force

Was also 3 hours away from another AS in Information Technology.

 

BSN (nursing), now driving truck. Owner operator...

Needed a roof over my head, and 3 squares a day. Still went hungry... But I was dry and warm, or cool, depending on the season.

16 years later...

Still paying... But, I finally have a house, a real refrigerator, and a good woman.

And yes, it took many years, and it is almost over. Not where I wanted to be at my age, I had big plans.

And it was not being an Owner/Operator/Truck Driver.

Be careful who you marry... Or get a **** good attorney. I screwed up on both.

My past has shaved at least 10-20 years off of my life.

Keep it in your pants. It was NOT worth it!

Moral of the story, never say never. I never thought it could happen to me, but it did.

Mike