Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "boons007" <boons007@...> wrote:
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> I agree... Resumes are SQUAT... Many are just KEY words for HR.
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> The important thing is can they do the job... at your price and 
> schedule ...

From the perspective of someone who has been looking/working without 
a degree, all the HR departments I've interacted with are not 
interested in even considering someone without that official 
paperwork. With few exceptions, I've ended up working in one-man TV 
shops, because then the person interviewing me can do the job, and so 
can tell if I know what I'm talking about.

Two exceptions, I had a personal recommendation from a friend who 
worked there. The third exception, I was hired into a very low-skill 
level position with the intention to move me into R&D after about 9 
months, and I'm sure they were checking me out to make sure I was 
what I seemed. Unfortunately the corporation that had bought it out 
three years before had other plans and they closed the factory.

Fortunately, that made me eligible for Displaced Worker Retraining, 
which I hadn't even known existed, so I get up to 2 years of 
schooling paid for, with a bit extra to help pay for books and 
supplies. Thank the great spaghetti monster for Amazon's used book 
sellers!

I'm pushing 50. It is my intention to get as much as I can out of 
school and get good scores from all my instructors. So I'm often 
there an hour before class starts, I am taking additional classes not 
required in my course (microcontrollers in assembler and C, for 
example), finally getting a CET Associate and Journeyman (preferably 
at least two) and the GROL, and I started a club that is building a 
CNC mill that I'm designing.

I want to be impressive enough that potential employers won't even be 
thinking about my age.

Steve Greenfield