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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Riding after heavy manual labor Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 16:34:50 -0700 Lines: 80 Message-ID: <ssjk5jtmlahd9losf71jft9v874o8n19bm@4ax.com> References: <gH23O.986$EkJ4.894@fx14.iad> <acep4jdkf54vl2cj7m9p0pns6jnfof9vvs@4ax.com> <oL65O.41283$HBac.1016@fx15.iad> <i71a5j50hfjt77spkiv65ifth9vusjvkf3@4ax.com> <v336hd$8qgh$2@dont-email.me> <r6m5O.73879$vAv6.52068@fx18.iad> <v34rkq$l0pn$1@dont-email.me> <v34sqa$iqvq$3@dont-email.me> <0Tq5O.6565$zHo8.4124@fx47.iad> <a6ic5jto9pu9kjlclo20i7d1qkbbcdaie9@4ax.com> <v35jjl$p98k$3@dont-email.me> <65ph5jdpgqg44q1k04noet41crs39qiipm@4ax.com> <G3n6O.4334$7jpd.1523@fx47.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net NpeZPqTyhiQcZgel9uxkpQS7y1BFauF1l70Ub8gs9C1NchIfep Cancel-Lock: sha1:k2G4wnjG8leS1StZ/tW2+yMq2Wg= sha256:BHDQHQNleFEn7W+veKtz/7soseKDm4sDQCG90QzjqfY= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 5241 On Fri, 31 May 2024 16:40:06 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Thu May 30 14:17:37 2024 Jeff Liebermann wrote: >> Time to wash the Subaru for the first time in about 4 years. Actually, it was more the first car wash in 7 years. It didn't work well. When I wiped off the soap, the car was left with a white (clear coat oxides) and brown (7 years of pollen) on all the painted surfaces. Household cleaners removed the pollen but not the oxides. I had to stop when the night insects and mosquitoes started to attack. I'll see what alcohol can do later today. If that works, Meguiar's Cleaning Wax to follow. I'll announce the results on Tues and the next few days are a mixture of paying work, charity work, home repair and damage control. >1.what position did you hold as an EE. I think I've posted the story at least twice. I held a variety of titles, most of which were something like "RF Engineer". I got stuck with "Junior Engineer" because HR looked up my salary and used the corresponding title from the WEMA (western electronic manufactures association) pay scale. I think I used the box of business cards for scratch paper, magneto shims and staring my wood burner fire. I'll post a link to scans of whatever old business cards I can find. >2. Why could you not find another job in electronics in the >hottest job market in the whole world? I also answered that at least twice. My 2nd to last job was something like "RF Engineer" at Intech Inc ended in June 1981. Intech was private labeling and selling HF SSB marine radios that were made in Seattle. In order to force a price reduction from the vendor, someone in management decided that Intech should clone the radio to convince the vendor that Intech could produce the product without outsourcing. I was stuck with the project mostly because nobody else wanted it. The problem was that the radio didn't work quite right and needed some redesign. Instead of fixing the problems, I was told to copy the original exactly including using the same disreputable parts sources. I didn't like it, but I followed instructions. About 3 or 4 months later, we had our first prototype which was called the Mariner 1600. Sorry, I couldn't find any photos. Predictably, my clone had exactly the same problems as the original radio. Also predictably, I was blamed for it not working. After a few days to consider my options, I quit and starting interviewing for a similar position at Granger Assoc where I worked for 2 years on a 900 MHz electric utility SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) radio: <http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/Granger%20Assoc/Granger%20RADAC%206710/> Granger Assoc laid me off because I irritated the engineering department head. (Details later, if you want them). Someone had to go and I was the obvious choice. That was in June 1983: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-liebermann-151823/details/experience/> After the layoff, I went back to my previous job at Intech Inc working on 500 watt and kilowatt transmitters, 40 watt driver board cleanup, a 1 kiloWatt PEP VMOS power FET design, and a very low IMD (intermodulation distortion) 40 watt driver for an NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) power amplifier for Diasonics. I have a few photos of all those, but no scans. That lasted for 7 months when I finally decided that I didn't want to commute an hour (one way) every day. I had accumulated enough stock and options to take a few months vacation. Instead, I took on some consulting work and dived into the computer business, which was deemed to be the next big thing. That eventually turned into a full time computer consulting and repair business from which I finally retired in Dec 2020 (36 years). Back to washing the oxides and pollen off the Subaru. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558