AVR-Chat

My mom tells me I started to try to fool around with electronics at the 
age of two.  I got really into it pre-high school, building little 
projects with tubes (vacuum-state electrostatic repulsion transistors, to 
you).
:-)

I studied EE in college and have been working at that ever since, 
intensely interested in it. I've also been a radio amateur for 40 years.

Some employees love radio amateurs because they're interested and 
dedicated.  Others don't because they "steal parts" and "borrow the lab 
equipment all the time". I think I'd rather have an employee who loved his 
work than someone who was just there for a paycheck, no matter what the 
field of work is.

Can you imagine what the quality of our electronic equipment is going to 
be in the future?

OK, I'm off my soapbox.  Your turn.
:-]

Zack

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, erikc wrote:

>
> My guess is that he heard somewhere that it was an easy way to earn a
> living.
>
> My experience is that for the most part, the people who are best at
> anything are those who truly love that thing for it's own sake, not
> just for whatever $$$ they can squeeze out of it (although that is
> some mighty nice icing on the cake).
>
> Everyone else is merely good at it.
>
>
> erikc