I agree with you Catnip, being well educated is not the be all and end all. An example would be here in Western Australia, where a person studies and goes to Uni and gets all the qualifications they need, whereas a young 18 year old can go mining with no experience and earn the same money, as a qualified Uni student, at the get go. The 18 year old can be retired by the time they are 35 and own everything and live comfortably on their super whilst the Uni student is still paying off their Hex fees and a mortgage.
That last part make me want to move.
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I can relate to much of what you share here as I was a bit of a science junky in my younger days, but I never took it to the extent of teaching. I had a keen interest in microbiology, ichthyology, and entomology. That was a long, long time ago. I ran a small contracting company as a courier in the capital city of my Province until I encountered a near fatal accident and miraculously survived. This change in my life led to wanting to leave the city and move to the wilderness, which I nearly managed. Prior experience in a warehouse where we shipped electronics to jobbers gave me a bit of an in for acquiring work in electrical out in the oil industry. I'm about 15 minutes or less from wilderness in any direction I go now and I like it like that.
Have you ever been mounted?
There's a wonderful series on UK catch up TV called Dial 9-9-9 about a RCMP officer attached to Scotland Yard in England. He always gets his man. It is superb.
Monty Python lionised you guys!
OLED monitors are still too expensive. Even the OLED TVs are still to expensive for me at this time.I was an in home TV Technician (TV repairman) for almost 30 years before retiring at 59 (the TV repair business died mostly). I was never educated in electronics. I started out on mechanical stuff (turntables, cassette tape players, speakers, etc.), then was offered other stuff and just went from there. I worked on Walkman, Amplifiers, CD players, Fax machines, Massage Chairs, Microwaves, Nintendo, Gameboy, Music keyboards...everything but TVs, lol
When the company I worked for had a slowdown and I was laid off, the service manager at a TV Dealer/servicer asked me if I wanted to try TVs. Back then everything was component level (Diodes, transistors, resistors, etc.). Eventually it became board level/modules. The beginning of the end started during the dot com bust when 1st Vizio appeared with low price TVs. Eventually there was a glut of cheap Chinese TV brands and the TV business became untenable
I got to see the glory years with new technologies coming fast and furious. Went from CRT direct view TVs to CRT projection, LCD, Plasma, LCD projection, HDILA, LCOS, DLP, Laser...eventually LCD and Plasma (flat panel) TVs won out, with Plasma going by the wayside. Since then, the OLED has been the only newcomer (Samsung has QLED, Quantum Dot...but they are LCD based)
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