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What do you do for a living?

Postby <hk> » Oct 1st, '11, 3:30 pm

Just out of curiosity, what do you guys do for a living / all day?

I am an electronics engineer at a pretty small company. We develop prototypes that solve all kinds of problems that have to be solved quickly no matter the cost. Most projects last less than a week and mainly involve cars.

Most problems are solved with micro controllers which are very small on chip computers that you can find in many devices like phones and TV remotes. I design the schematics for the printed circuit board(pcb) my self and route stuff into a layout that is then send out for manufacturing. When the PCB arrives I solder parts on it and make cables n' plugs for my test setup. After that comes the programming phase. Our mechanic then integrates it into ... where ever it goes.

The fun part is picking parts I work with. I can just take a part that is double the price to another because I like the color better and nobody cares. Also I can have many things my way, because the spec the client hands us is roughly like:
Here is our new prototype part for this new car that is coming out. Make it work in the predecessor model so we can show it around.


Work hours are flexible. I come and go when I feel like it as long as I get the work done. Usually I start at 09:00 and leave at 19:00. This leads to 1 hour over time a day which I convert into things like a reel of super bright LEDs or a toy helicopter. Crap like that.
Sometimes, when things aren't working as planned we work 20 hours strait, sleep 6 hours and continue working until the problem is solved. Well, everything has a downside.

I'd love to post some pictures but working with prototypes requires a NDA to be signed. :(
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby TittenIgnition » Oct 2nd, '11, 1:24 am

<hk> wrote:The fun part is picking parts I work with. I can just take a part that is double the price to another because I like the color better and nobody cares.

That's brilliant.

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I basically sit around all day. I have no job, but when I do, it's something lame like masonry or other types of construction. I'm not very experienced at it so I do all the bitch work, like lugging buckets of whatever, or digging, or painting.

I need to go back to school :(
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby <hk> » Oct 9th, '11, 9:16 pm

Well, this thread was a dud. :(
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby TittenIgnition » Oct 10th, '11, 1:27 am

<hk> wrote:Well, this thread was a dud. :(

I guess everyone is too ashamed to share :mrgreen:
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby <)Ghost(> » Oct 10th, '11, 2:36 am

school and part-time job
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby TittenIgnition » Oct 10th, '11, 2:40 am

<)Ghost(> wrote:school and part-time job

Not good enough.
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby <)Ghost(> » Oct 10th, '11, 3:38 am

thats all u get
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby amt-morbus » Oct 10th, '11, 7:58 am

I'm a pirate.
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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby dS-kiddy » Oct 10th, '11, 3:28 pm

amt-morbus wrote:I'm a pirate.


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Re: What do you do for a living?

Postby DF/// ifoo » Oct 10th, '11, 5:01 pm

i would, but since today was my first day at sony dadc i cant really tell you much about it, since i dont know it myself yet :p

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