Re: kids these days

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:42:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:21:31 -0700) it happened john larkin
<jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote in <v1rbfj18eqbgr1t9bfvdfqqmn1q91gcfof@4ax.com>:
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bosses-firing-gen-z-grads-111719818.html
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Oh. I just hired one.

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There is a lot of truth in that article.
I have had to work with newcomers, some knew nothing
But then when I started... in my first job designing a.o. mil stuff
I had to figure it all out for myself the same day the requests got on the table.
One old guy, who had some experience with electronics but had a lot with high power stuff..
and a manager to rule us, was the environment, and a big factory floor building the things we came up with, and
a test room (HV stuff 100 kV etc megawatt stuff.. and a little corner and oscilloscope for me to test what I came up with, build  proto circuits.
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Later when starting in broadcasting we got 6 month in the school benches in their own studio, while getting payed,
and exams after that, everything from audio, video, satellite, management, politics (who can do what, red phones sort of thing), the works.
As that (video, audio etc) was my real interest, I found it relaxing and fun.
Then when you are put in charge of a real event, I remember the first day I ran alone in a head control room
I had to call my boss back from his dinner in some restaurant.. could not find the cables we had to swap
to sync some remote location,
turned out those were hidden under the floor boards ..
Did not they tell you that?
(Must have missed that :-) ).
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It all depends,.
Do you give the poor new guy training? ANY kind of training?

He doesn't have to. John has this screening technique he uses for job
applicants. He shows them a diagram of two 1k resistors in series with
10V across them and asks them what the voltage where they join is. If
they freak out, burst into tears or defenestrate themselves, he knows
not to hire them. :-)

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And not everybody is 'made' for electronics...
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It is a way of thinking
I was reading this just now:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/these-3d-printed-pipes-inspired-by-shark-intestines-outperform-tesla-valves/
can you do it in silly-con?
Make a rectifier that way?
;-)