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I was hoping to post this to a different thread, but it closed before I had the chance. If it is decided that this thread should be removed/closed then so be it, but at least I have made the effort to communicate my thoughts.
I apologise in advance if people find this post offensive. I wish no bad intent by it, but I feel I must say.
I don't know about his particular circumstances, so it is not really right for me to assume anything about them. Nevertheless I feel compelled to do so.
I share with Ian the fact that I am an electronics engineer. It is with this in mind that I propose, as I have before, the difficulty that many of us are currently experiencing.
You go to University, you get qualifications that are difficult to attain, and you trust that you have done enough to make it through. You know that you can't understand everything. You make sacrifices along the way in what you learn. That makes room for what you're going to need as an engineer. Envitably things like "business sense" take second place. I know they do for me.
As an engineer you know that you have the capacity to produce solutions that are technically superior, more advanced and valuable than those implemented in software. When people trained in "business" tell you that you cannot do these things because the expense and risk are too high, it is more than frustrating. At least it is for me.
So there one stands. Trained to the hilt, and seeking endeavour. The government offer nothing, but tell you that retraining is an option, and offer you a job in a supermarket. None of the people that enforce help from the jobcentre understand what you know. In my case, they don't even know what a URL is.
The only significant hope for us is that the government want to hand out contracts for electronics to implement "big brother" national security solutions. Electronics engineers have so much more to offer.
Until people in a wider sense see what is happening, they won't realise the damage that we are all doing ourselves in this country.
I feel so sad for his family.
I apologise in advance if people find this post offensive. I wish no bad intent by it, but I feel I must say.
I don't know about his particular circumstances, so it is not really right for me to assume anything about them. Nevertheless I feel compelled to do so.
I share with Ian the fact that I am an electronics engineer. It is with this in mind that I propose, as I have before, the difficulty that many of us are currently experiencing.
You go to University, you get qualifications that are difficult to attain, and you trust that you have done enough to make it through. You know that you can't understand everything. You make sacrifices along the way in what you learn. That makes room for what you're going to need as an engineer. Envitably things like "business sense" take second place. I know they do for me.
As an engineer you know that you have the capacity to produce solutions that are technically superior, more advanced and valuable than those implemented in software. When people trained in "business" tell you that you cannot do these things because the expense and risk are too high, it is more than frustrating. At least it is for me.
So there one stands. Trained to the hilt, and seeking endeavour. The government offer nothing, but tell you that retraining is an option, and offer you a job in a supermarket. None of the people that enforce help from the jobcentre understand what you know. In my case, they don't even know what a URL is.
The only significant hope for us is that the government want to hand out contracts for electronics to implement "big brother" national security solutions. Electronics engineers have so much more to offer.
Until people in a wider sense see what is happening, they won't realise the damage that we are all doing ourselves in this country.
I feel so sad for his family.
There is a great looking job here:
www.hondaracingf1.com/en/index.php?section=19
for a fellow petrol headed electronics type.
(If you fancy Brackley and like travel.)
www.hondaracingf1.com/en/index.php?section=19
for a fellow petrol headed electronics type.
(If you fancy Brackley and like travel.)
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