[oceanview]

well, no college graduate is going to be able to do that. could you when you were hired out of college?

that the same line many US coporate managers at larger companies take - they won't hire a US engineer with no experience, but they will offshore that task to someone in India, yet they know absolutely nothing about whether they can do the job. Its because offshoring has now become the fashionable thing to do, US corporate management is like a cult on this issue, its their holy grail.

What did Patton say : "show me a group of people who all think the same thing, and I'll show you a group of people who aren't thinking".

[DB]

I graduated high school a year and a half early by taking the GED (back in 1978). I was hired as an engineering technician when I started at California Microwave Inc in Sunnyvale at age 19. I did not go to collage. I was promoted to senior design engineer in about two to three years after being hired (there were position steps in between).

I fixed TV's in a small town repair shop before that...

And no, I couldn’t do what they wanted engineering wise when I was first hired.

As a small business owner, I can’t afford to train an engineer for a year or more before he/she is productive. That would be a double whammy for me. Not only would the new engineer not be productive, neither would I.

The point I’m trying to make is, that if you love what you do, you will find a way to do it and be successful.