Hello, I am a physics student that for some reason has gotten stuck doing a lot of electronics. (Maybe it's because I like it.) Anyway, I like to take ideas, make circuit diagrams, breadboard it, troubleshoot it, solder it, and troubleshoot it. Is it possible to make a summer job out of doing something like this. Thanks for your input!
-Kendi
It is certainly a good "beer money" gig. Just don't front much money until you see if anyone wants to pay. Once you test the market you can answer your own question. I know I would give someone $100 if they would do the grunt work on some crackpot idea I had getting from paper to a board.but you probably need more than that.
Hello Kendi,
I side with Jim. Check with the small electronics companies in your area. The local chamber of commerce should be able to provide you with the locations but for that the web works as well these days. If you can solder that already puts you ahead of a large portion of graduates. Believe it or not but many of them cannot solder (and I would never hire any of those for EE jobs).
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
Believe it or not, many graduates wouldn't understand a practical circuit either !
Graham
Hello Graham,
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Oh yeah. Had my share of that one. "Does he at least understand my module description?" "Nope."
That same module description (heavily analog) was perfectly well understood by a biomedical engineer who had very little exposure to analog in his life but more to chemistry. But of course he was older, from a time when universities cranked out "real" engineers.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
You people are making me think i should be doing this. I dont know the color code (havent bothered i almost keep the multimeter in my back pocket), but damn i can solder well. I know what you mean though about graduates not knowing anything. For people who are automotively inclined heres a funny story Im in a school in france to be a mechanic (long story but im stuck on the mechanic path for a while, i hate it now). Get this im doing a work experience thing where you have to work for somebody else for a while for free. I weazle my way into the local ferrari dealership (no joke) by beating on my chest about a small block ford i built. Well im in there and my tutor mechanic ends up with a 360 modena thats smoking and he cant figure out whats wrong with it cause the computer doesnt give him any error codes. After trying nothing he decides to take a half a liter of oil out. Then after taking it for a test drive, it doesnt smoke anymore. He decides to get me to tell the client that he has to drive the car a half a liter low on oil or itll start smoking again. i know its funny but it broke my heart, i had a dream of being a ferrari mechanic thought they were intelligent mechanically inclined people now i wouldnt want to be associated with them. I know im overreacting about one bad guy but it really made me sick to the point of questioning my career, but i suppose i should finish what i started so i at least have a degree in something so i fell back on all the electronics stuff i know from my father(who was an EE for bell labs when they still did basic research) forgot about my mustang in the states (i still have nightmares that car was like a child to me) and picked up a new hobby
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