So you say. While there are classes where that is easily done it is usually in the mid range hourly and low range salaried that it is reasonably possible. But how may 50+ year olds do you know that can and will work significant overtime?
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Hi Phil (and others), First of all, thank you very much for your message, and...
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Actually CalPERS is one exception to the slightly over broad brush. Of course over 2E11 dollars is not a toy.
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Actually i have found an amazing amount of them that can do just that. I expect you have heard of Steven Hawking?
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There is a trade off there. You need to limit that to the most flexible and brightest old personnel.
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Heavily weighted by the early amounts because of compound interest. Check it out. Moreover, no matter what the contributions were there should come a point where the interest on the early contributions outweigh the current contributions. Do the arithmetic. A spreadsheet program makes this relatively painless.
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Finally, someone else caught on.
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That does sound specific to one particular tool (vendors's software).
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Yes, a remarkable guy. I didn't mean folks who develop Lou Gehrig's although they will also need support once it has progresed to a point. I mean people like the guy with Down syndrome we sometimes visit. He's on disability and that is really the only way for him to live.
That would be no problem.
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I don't think we'll see the interest rates of yesteryear anytime soon. But the point is there should not be preferential treatment of public service employees on the shoulders of the taxpayer.
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Most people I know don't.
Big time. I've seen lots of it. People who collected fat checks because of back injuries and then personally erecting retaining walls and stuff. IMHO there is an utter lack of enforcement.
Hey, didn't even Spike Helmick try to collect a fat pension "upgrade" claiming he fell off his armchair?
I must pay $65 for an office visit. Plus the first $2700 (per person!) per year out of pocket, else the premiums become unbearable. A lot of engineers I know how no health insurance at all because they can't afford it any longer.
That's good but still not fair compared to people in non-gvt jobs.
Half? $5k/mo is about what engineers in industry made 15 years ago.
But the real perks are in other jobs where the legislature has caved in to the unions. Prison guards etc. A while ago the news reported the staggering number of applications sent in. It may not be a fun job but it sure must have become a plum job.
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I know of a friend of a friend who's a prison guard, and besides the money, one nice option they have here in Oregon is that they can completely swap hours with their co-workers. This guy will take a couple months off during the summer and then work a bunch of 60 hour weeks the rest of the year for someone else who's then taking his few months off. Definitely some advantages to having a job where you're largely interchangeable with any of your co-workers and are being paid by the hour!
Of course, prison guard jobs are kind of like mining jobs... usually it's good pay and no problems, but when something does go wrong you're rather likely to end up dead...
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Yeah, after Dave posted that I checked and unfortunately Pulsonix can't do it... although it's "close enough" that I imagine adding it as a feature wouldn't be particularly difficult. I think it's a good idea -- hopefully it will show up in more tools over time.
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Plenty around here. Usually in law enforcement.
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Right. The same goes for code, especially micro controllers. Without spending a lot of time on a floor plan chances are it won't fit in or it'll become a hodge-podge of code snippets somehow stitched together. Seen a lot of that :-(
There seems to be a huge software company up north that has in part lost the art of good floorplanning ...
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Overtime should never be needed in a well run company. That said, I've been averaging 60hr weeks (some 70+ and a few weeks with holidays, less) since August and have at least a few more months of work left on the pile, if I want it. There is no reason a 50s can't work overtime but there is also no reason to need, want, or expect it. BTW, I certainly wouldn't be working the overtime were I salaried.
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So what do you do at the end of this gig? Maybe buy Adnan Kashoggi's yacht ;-)
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For medical devices/equipment, I'd be concerned with getting an RoHS waiver and non-green parts and solder, so that the device/equipment isn't likely to fail in a few years due to tin wiskers and harm the patient.
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Sure. However, about a year ago we learned that we better brace ourselves for not so good things to come:
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Every hour I work now is at least two I don't have to later. ;-) As they say, "you gotta make hay while the sun is shining".
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Preferential? I think not. Civil service employees generally get what was normal in industry 10 years ago. They usually trade job security for about a sixth less pay. It is the near invulnerable job security that is the problem.
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Please note some of the wild variation in engineer classifications. For this group we should look for electrical or electronic engineers. Senior engineer supervises working engineers, supervising engineers are the bosses of seniors, and they in turn report to principle engineers.
I have not bothered to find historical pay rates yet. All of my peer group has made more in private than in public positions. If you are not doing as well, that is not my problem.
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