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I'm thinking of hanging it up and opening up a VW Westfalia sales/repair shop or moving into organic farming. Lots of great land here in the Carolina Lowcountry. Robots are already getting into writing, my Mac is smarter than me (I cannot beat it at chess) and Wavejets will soon be driving themselves around the lineup for fun. So I need to hedge my bets. What say ye?
Quote: I'm thinking of hanging it up and opening up a VW Westfalia sales/repair shop or moving into organic farming. Lots of great land here in the Carolina Lowcountry. Robots are already getting into writing, my Mac is smarter than me (I cannot beat it at chess) and Wavejets will soon be driving themselves around the lineup for fun. So I need to hedge my bets. What say ye?
Quote: Job Description: Pro Surfing's Ultimate Bro Brah
Fixed. Yewww!
How long will it be until another company jumps on the Bro Bah bandwagon ? I'm head to toe rip curl right now just incase I cross paths with the UBB. I would not want my image to jeopardize my chance for a high five and a yewwwww!
Quote: Remember that arcade game Cyberball? Entertaining.
Juice.
wow, haven't thought of that game in years. Use to meet my buddy for beers, then we'd hit the arcade and crush people in that game. Would love to find one of those old arcade games for the house.
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Quote: Remember that arcade game Cyberball? Entertaining.
Juice.
wow, haven't thought of that game in years. Use to meet my buddy for beers, then we'd hit the arcade and crush people in that game. Would love to find one of those old arcade games for the house.
I had a fit of nostalgia a couple years ago and downloaded the rom emulators onto my computer. Was fun playing some of those games for the first time in at least a decade. Cyberball was a favorite. As was NBA Jam. Hard to play using keyboard though.
I still have a Galaga addiction apparently.
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Quote: Remember that arcade game Cyberball? Entertaining.
Juice.
wow, haven't thought of that game in years. Use to meet my buddy for beers, then we'd hit the arcade and crush people in that game. Would love to find one of those old arcade games for the house.
I had a fit of nostalgia a couple years ago and downloaded the rom emulators onto my computer. Was fun playing some of those games for the first time in at least a decade. Cyberball was a favorite. As was NBA Jam. Hard to play using keyboard though.
I still have a Galaga addiction apparently.
I preferred Bezerk and Robotron!
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Quote: Remember that arcade game Cyberball? Entertaining.
Juice.
wow, haven't thought of that game in years. Use to meet my buddy for beers, then we'd hit the arcade and crush people in that game. Would love to find one of those old arcade games for the house.
I had a fit of nostalgia a couple years ago and downloaded the rom emulators onto my computer. Was fun playing some of those games for the first time in at least a decade. Cyberball was a favorite. As was NBA Jam. Hard to play using keyboard though.
I still have a Galaga addiction apparently.
I preferred Bezerk and Robotron!
Food Fight was fun for like 3 days maybe.
Hurry bro, run over the pickle!
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It's funny, back in the early 80's when the "auto-router" came out for circuit board design, everyone thought their jobs were going to become obsolete in a few years. Wrong. Circuit boards just got more and more complex, smaller and denser. The "routers", though a cool tool, couldn't keep up with ever complex technologies. Auto-routers were pains in the ass to deal with, cleaning up their mess, or struggling to manually finish what it couldn't.
So, here I am, almost 30 years later wondering if a computer or "robot" will take my job. Someone has to design, program and run the machine. As "smart" as everyone thinks computers are, they still are quite dumb. They still stuggle with complex puzzles and multi-tasking on their own. Every time a new chip comes out, you need a new circuit board design. No shortage in that arena.
The problem is too many USA kids are NOT getting into engineering, math and science fields. "it too hard, wahhh!". Well Japan, China, India and other 3rd world kids are taking those challenges, and will be taking all those jobs. The USA kids rather get worthless, easy, liberal arts degrees, complain about no jobs, and live with mommy and daddy at 35. Go look at the Qualcomm job want ads. Literally 100's of engineering jobs going un-filled. These are good paying fields, but yes, you have to use your brain cells. Something a lot of kids under 30 seem to not want to do anymore. They'll take their chances on American Idol, You think you can fart, Jersey Shore, or some other Reality circus show. And when that doesn't pan out, they can just live with mommy and daddy until they die, complain about no good jobs and over-priced, worthless student loans, then inherit the house and live rent free.
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Quote: It's funny, back in the early 80's when the "auto-router" came out for circuit board design, everyone thought their jobs were going to become obsolete in a few years. Wrong. Circuit boards just got more and more complex, smaller and denser. The "routers", though a cool tool, couldn't keep up with ever complex technologies. Auto-routers were pains in the ass to deal with, cleaning up their mess, or struggling to manually finish what it couldn't.
So, here I am, almost 30 years later wondering if a computer or "robot" will take my job. Someone has to design, program and run the machine. As "smart" as everyone thinks computers are, they still are quite dumb. They still stuggle with complex puzzles and multi-tasking on their own. Every time a new chip comes out, you need a new circuit board design. No shortage in that arena.
The problem is too many USA kids are NOT getting into engineering, math and science fields. "it too hard, wahhh!". Well Japan, China, India and other 3rd world kids are taking those challenges, and will be taking all those jobs. The USA kids rather get worthless, easy, liberal arts degrees, complain about no jobs, and live with mommy and daddy at 35. Go look at the Qualcomm job want ads. Literally 100's of engineering jobs going un-filled. These are good paying fields, but yes, you have to use your brain cells. Something a lot of kids under 30 seem to not want to do anymore. They'll take their chances on American Idol, You think you can fart, Jersey Shore, or some other Reality circus show. And when that doesn't pan out, they can just live with mommy and daddy until they die, complain about no good jobs and over-priced, worthless student loans, then inherit the house and live rent free.
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Quote: It's funny, back in the early 80's when the "auto-router" came out for circuit board design, everyone thought their jobs were going to become obsolete in a few years. Wrong. Circuit boards just got more and more complex, smaller and denser. The "routers", though a cool tool, couldn't keep up with ever complex technologies. Auto-routers were pains in the ass to deal with, cleaning up their mess, or struggling to manually finish what it couldn't.
So, here I am, almost 30 years later wondering if a computer or "robot" will take my job. Someone has to design, program and run the machine. As "smart" as everyone thinks computers are, they still are quite dumb. They still stuggle with complex puzzles and multi-tasking on their own. Every time a new chip comes out, you need a new circuit board design. No shortage in that arena.
The problem is too many USA kids are NOT getting into engineering, math and science fields. "it too hard, wahhh!". Well Japan, China, India and other 3rd world kids are taking those challenges, and will be taking all those jobs. The USA kids rather get worthless, easy, liberal arts degrees, complain about no jobs, and live with mommy and daddy at 35. Go look at the Qualcomm job want ads. Literally 100's of engineering jobs going un-filled. These are good paying fields, but yes, you have to use your brain cells. Something a lot of kids under 30 seem to not want to do anymore. They'll take their chances on American Idol, You think you can fart, Jersey Shore, or some other Reality circus show. And when that doesn't pan out, they can just live with mommy and daddy until they die, complain about no good jobs and over-priced, worthless student loans, then inherit the house and live rent free.
+1
I will say, however, that as far as liberal arts go, being an English major (or minor) isn't the worst thing in the world. You would be amazed (or maybe not) how many people in technical fields that can not write to save their asses. Being able to write well is an extremely necessary skill and I will add that almost every place I've worked has asked for a writing sample after the interview. Interestingly enough, even fresh out of school, no one gave a sh*t about my GPA but they almost all wanted writing samples.
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Quote: It's funny, back in the early 80's when the "auto-router" came out for circuit board design, everyone thought their jobs were going to become obsolete in a few years. Wrong. Circuit boards just got more and more complex, smaller and denser. The "routers", though a cool tool, couldn't keep up with ever complex technologies. Auto-routers were pains in the ass to deal with, cleaning up their mess, or struggling to manually finish what it couldn't.
So, here I am, almost 30 years later wondering if a computer or "robot" will take my job. Someone has to design, program and run the machine. As "smart" as everyone thinks computers are, they still are quite dumb. They still stuggle with complex puzzles and multi-tasking on their own. Every time a new chip comes out, you need a new circuit board design. No shortage in that arena.
The problem is too many USA kids are NOT getting into engineering, math and science fields. "it too hard, wahhh!". Well Japan, China, India and other 3rd world kids are taking those challenges, and will be taking all those jobs. The USA kids rather get worthless, easy, liberal arts degrees, complain about no jobs, and live with mommy and daddy at 35. Go look at the Qualcomm job want ads. Literally 100's of engineering jobs going un-filled. These are good paying fields, but yes, you have to use your brain cells. Something a lot of kids under 30 seem to not want to do anymore. They'll take their chances on American Idol, You think you can fart, Jersey Shore, or some other Reality circus show. And when that doesn't pan out, they can just live with mommy and daddy until they die, complain about no good jobs and over-priced, worthless student loans, then inherit the house and live rent free.
It's not just math and engineering either. I've had to go up to Stanford Medical Center a half dozen times this past year for tests and the majority of the students up there are asian and indian
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I see what you're saying and we could take math and science a lot more seriously in this country, but the bottom line is that the average IQ in this country is around 100. That means that most of the distribution is not cut out for engineering. Also, the statement, "Engineering jobs are going unfilled," is untrue. There are lots of kids graduating engineering schools but employers tell the media that they can't fill the jobs because they want to bring in H1b visa workers for lower wages. Or they don't want to train people on the job - they want an exact matching resume for the job description posted, which is usually impossible.
We need jobs that don't require college like we had 50 years ago. We need to make it easier and cheaper to start a small factory or business in this country or we are well and truly boned.
That said, good repairmen of all stripes, skilled machinists, technicians, and the like always seem to have work.
Quote: Doesn't surprise me. They're hiring the people based on the growth they see so they can ship all the engineering work back to where the growth is.
The engineering jobs are following the manufacturing overseas. Isn't free trade great?
That's not the case, they all work here in the US and they're here because India has shithot engineers and engineering schools......they aren't underpaid either.
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had to travel to green bay to install a system recently and had a newbie engineer from jersey (10yrs in nj, india before that) tag along for training purposes.
let's just say i'm not feeling too good about his future prospects in the company.
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had to travel to green bay to install a system recently and had a newbie engineer from jersey (10yrs in nj, india before that) tag along for training purposes.
let's just say i'm not feeling too good about his future prospects in the company.
Over time they'll become slackers just like the rest of us......
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Capt. Jack Aubrey
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