Oh gee, thanks!! I was all proud of my work, thinking I was pretty cool there for one day. Then you guys have to come in and show me up, making my PWM board look like a scout project and all!
In all seriousness, that looks like interesting work! Tedious, and mind consuming, probably like writing code. (I.E., I'll just finish one more part, then I'm off to bed.... 4, 5, 6 hours later.)
I now know who my "go to" guys are now if I run into a snag later!
LOL! Yeah, that last part is an occupational hazard. I'm just finishing up work myself.
Temporal thread drift...
When you're working with 10 layers and a hundreds of nets that have to be length-matched to within five thousandths of an inch, you have to be able to get into a certain zone or you're totally dead meat on a stick. Some folks definitely find that tedious, mostly 'cuz they just can't get into that zone. But when you're in there, it's a whole 'nuther world
Time almost stands still and all kinds of good stuff just happens. I imagine good coders find the same paradigm exists for them.
fwiw, I was actually retired after almost 40 years in computer hardware design. I worked for a lot of players, IBM, Digital, Compaq, HP, Stratus, and did some midnight designs for other outfits like Honeywell and EMC at the same time. Never wrote a resume, people just came knocking. Someone who worked for me ten years ago talked me into consulting work, and I've designed 10 boards since late August. The first two were
introduced at the CES in January and were well received.
The best part of it all is my commute is like 20 seconds, I don't have a manager or a board of directors doing utterly stupid stuff, and I get paid for doing what I've always enjoyed doing. Plus I can hit my keezer any time of the day if I need to take the edge off a tad
It's definitely a pretty cool gig. Highly recommended...
Cheers!
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