[Hallicrafters] Re: Nobody wants to be a "technician" anymore

[Charlie]

While some may find this thread boring, I'm getting a new insight to the job
farming situation.  It's easy to swallow the hate-everything-about-America
bias from the media to think that it's those evil corporations who are
causing that "great sucking sound".  It never occurred to me that much of
the fault lies in our microwave generation's sentiment that the world owes
them a living.   I snuck into engineering by way of the a tech school (CREI)
that obtained accreditation for a BS degree, graduating in '67.  I've always
worked for small companies where there was no hiding room for incompetence
and the last actual job with Microlog Corp ('78 - '87) so contact was with
typical hams which of course, ran the gamut from professional engineers to
pre-teens with a Novice license.  Before that, 1978 back, most of my
industry contact was with sharp tech people.  My point is that my
perspective of the current EE graduates is severely dated, being at least 30
years old.  Combine "I want-it-all-&-I-want-it now" with our PC attitudes,
and it's no wonder we're in this situation.

I recently heard an analysis of why foreign students excel when the locals
don't is that they do not consider themselves "victims" with an entitlement
mentality.  They see the opportunity and accept the fact that they have to
work for it. Does the term "dumbing down" ring a bell?

73' Charlie k3ICH