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

[kim.herron at sbcglobal.net]

Hi Charlie!!
     Your mention of CREI (Cleveland (?) Radio and Electroincs 
Institute) brings back memories.  My Chief Instructor at RETS was John 
Vanden Hoek.  That's where he graduated from at earlier in the 60"s
He came back from Nam after being in the AF at Da Nang.  One sharp 
dood!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie" <pincon at erols.com>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Re: Nobody wants to be a "technician" 
anymore


> 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
>
>
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