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AH, getting old. I got the music in me, my heart beats to a different rhythm than the one we'd prefer.
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Okay, so you have to be a really good trouble shooter when it comes to your own medical care. Don't ever forget that doctors are only practicing medicine. In my own personel situation (your milage may vary) - my abnormal cardio waveforms (funny looking QRS complex) were due to chronic lack of calcium and dehydration. Found a good source of Ca for me and started forcing myself to drink water (booze doesn't count now) and no more meds. I have lots of resources if you need help and we will now end this session of sci.med.com
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Very true about that doctor thing. Ive been dealing with a few health issues and i begin to feel like i know more about my condition then the doctor does or at least seams to care enough to talk about. I mean i start treating it like i do my work and research it and troubleshoot my body, at one point i thought about self medicating myself with online pharmacies, nothing controlled of course, i just got sick of paying 150 for a doctors nurse to write a perscription for rash cream when i could just buy it online. I mean of course if its something life threating or like morphine or something yeah i can see but rash cream??? But i know the doc knows some about all conditions where as i just know alot about just the few im worried about. Im just starting getting a huge wakeup about healthcare and money and how you cant have one with out alot of the other, at least in texas.
Ill have alook at that link enzo thanks.Comment
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The fellow I work for, Mike Jay is very open to trying to bring people in. Sometimes with amusing results sometimes it works out well.Some people have curiosity and some don't. SOme poeple can deal in abstract and some can.t. SOme people are problem solvers and some are not.
He's found the big first question is "when you were a kid were you always getting in trouble for taking stuff apart?"
The follow up of course is "how old were you when you started getting it back together so nobody could tell?"
One of the things I've observed is some people not only can't deal in abstract, they have a hard time seeing specifics. A circuit board is just a blur of stuff, not hundreds of discrete specific things. Forests and trees. Me I'm buried in pine needles.Comment
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I notice ill have a tech that gets really pissed off working for something. Then i try to go over and simplify for them. Like have you isolated the problem, are you sure its not the preamp did you go through it with a signal...
They allways think theres some conspiracy and im trying to load them with all the hard stuff when it all lands back on me if they cant fix it anyways lol. Not saying all are like this but i see it happen and i try to lett them see the trees despite the forest.Comment
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It is a hard trade to teach, isn't it? I have tried twice now to take in the young guys that do call up from time to time asking to be an unpaid apprentice, as they do seem to be genuine, but a one-man business can't really manage that. I don;t have the time, and they need more time than I can give them, and they drift away. In the end you just have to find yourself some stuff to fix, and start fixing it, and ask around and read up and learn, then you get better at it, and the day comes when your skills are worth someone's money (and the risk you take of having to buy someone a new amp!).
Here in the UK there used to be a trade qualification ('City and Guilds') in electronic repair. Don't know if it still exists, but since the trade is now so specialised due to replaceability/China/SMT etc, I imagine that most of the stuff on it is of limited practical use. I mean, I would say the everyday electronics repair trade is mostly guitar/valve work, with some high-end hi-fi and studio gear thrown in, which isn't really that wide a spread of equipment types but is nevertheless highly specialised. That's a big change from when it was 95% TVs. Ad since we're now such a tiny niche I doubt whether it's worth getting a new qualification together.
Strikes me that it's a very Darwinian situation. Once upon a time the primeval forest was full of glowing tube TV trees, and thousands of repairmen happily browsed upon them. Then the tube forest died out because way more efficient trees spread from abroad, and these new trees had tiny little leaves that the repairmen could not browse upon, and the repairmen pined away and starved, apart from a few who had always known that there were some other tasty trees over in Muso Valley, and they developed a mutation that allowed them not to have their hearing permanently damaged by the deafening rustling of the leaves there.Comment
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Electronics are SOOOO very reliable these days. Think about all the electronics in your life, and now how many times has any of it actually failed? I don;t recall the last time a TV of mine quit. My computer is used hard, and I have had to replace one DSL modem for it. The previous computer did get a new power supply. The computer in my truck, and the truck before that, and the car before that. And the stereos in the dashboards of those. All worked, no failures. Stuff just works, and it works a long time. The repair needed to keep TVs and such running today is FAR less than for TVs of the tube era.Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.Comment
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A Dual Super Lead modem? Gotta get one!Comment
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Still looking for a JCM800 printer.Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.Comment
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I qualify for the "young-ish" category. I'm 35 and learned electronics at a community college shortly after high school. Landed my first electronics job about two years later repairing control boxes for oil wells then managed to land the next job at an industry leading company repairing/rebuilding machinery as well as doing component level circuit board repair. I've been at that job for ten years, and begain repairing amps in the evenings after I had about ten years of electronics experience under my belt (counting the time at the oil well supply company). The experience prior to repairing guitar amps gave me plenty of time to learn to think like a tech and have that sort of intuition (or ability to just plain "see" with the right kind of eyes) so I was able to walk into it with that under by belt leaving me to take care of the learning curve that deals with things more specific to amplifiers... meaning that not only does it have to work, it has to sound good as well.
That's my story whittled down to a short paragraph.Comment
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