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Evening John


I wholeheartedly agree with your entire post to be honest.  Yes I certainly feel old, albeit I am told I have more life left in me, but following some projects, I do think that my time is limited.


Yes, you are never too old to learn.  I was not gifted with 'honors' or 'masters' etc., but I have spent many years as a sole electrical engineering design consultant for a couple of practices and as such, I have spent many many hours researching and learning whilst on the job as it were.  I would never claim to be the best designer, nor do I believe that I ever would be, but I am good at knowing my limitations and researching and learning new things as and when needed.  P.S. Anyone reading this should know that one of the best sources of knowledge is actually this forum!


Perhaps I should have stuck with just being too ugly to learn, then you may not have commented on that!


As for the struggles you appear to be having regarding finding a suitable replacement design engineer, I get where you are coming from.  There certainly does seem to be an abundance of mid 20 to 30 year olds who as you suggest claim to know everything on their CV's, but when questioned, do not.  I have generally noticed that a lot of these people also appear to have already worked at 6+ practices already.  It appears that they stay somewhere for a year or 2 then jump ship before any of their designs catch up with them.  Not my kind of dedication.


Regardless, that is not everyone, and there are some good ones out there, just very hard to find.


Thanks again for the reponses.


Regards


Adrian B.

Evening John


I wholeheartedly agree with your entire post to be honest.  Yes I certainly feel old, albeit I am told I have more life left in me, but following some projects, I do think that my time is limited.


Yes, you are never too old to learn.  I was not gifted with 'honors' or 'masters' etc., but I have spent many years as a sole electrical engineering design consultant for a couple of practices and as such, I have spent many many hours researching and learning whilst on the job as it were.  I would never claim to be the best designer, nor do I believe that I ever would be, but I am good at knowing my limitations and researching and learning new things as and when needed.  P.S. Anyone reading this should know that one of the best sources of knowledge is actually this forum!


Perhaps I should have stuck with just being too ugly to learn, then you may not have commented on that!


As for the struggles you appear to be having regarding finding a suitable replacement design engineer, I get where you are coming from.  There certainly does seem to be an abundance of mid 20 to 30 year olds who as you suggest claim to know everything on their CV's, but when questioned, do not.  I have generally noticed that a lot of these people also appear to have already worked at 6+ practices already.  It appears that they stay somewhere for a year or 2 then jump ship before any of their designs catch up with them.  Not my kind of dedication.


Regardless, that is not everyone, and there are some good ones out there, just very hard to find.


Thanks again for the reponses.


Regards


Adrian B.