Wish me luck by 6IXSTRINGJACK

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Wish me luck

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Monday, June 8, 2015 9:19 PM

Passed the first 2 certs... 3rd and 4th this week.

PLCs tomorrow will be easy. I'm a little leery about Industrial Electronics 2 since we've had almost 0 prep on that....

What I love about this course is that you can't send these skills overseas.... not when you know and keep learning about mechanics and electricity and the computer programs that automate them and keep them inline.

I was talking to the girl cutting my hair today that what I'm learning now can't be shipped to India any sooner than her ability to cut hair could be done by robots controlled by somebody from India.

She laughed and told me about a new machine that can do every step of a deep shampoo for them that was just recently released. I told her that "well.... at least the closest thing to a machine cutting somebodie's hair was the "Suck-Cut" from Wayne's World.

The IBM job I had was just a glorified Computer Babysitting job. It's no wonder that they shipped my salary to India and paid 8 guys with Master's Degrees a living wage with what I used to make off of my "some college" here.....

No more. Not only will I be able to code the ladder logic from the ground up at as a contractor, but I could run the whole shop at a smaller company from here till eternity (or until better robots are made). At least in this arena, I should always have enough of a foothold above technology that the next time 80% of the staff gets laid off, I'm still one of the indispensable talent.

So long as I'm programming things, if a hard-wired relay burns out, it's better to have an expert on site to fix things then have some low level GED guy try to fix it while some dude from India monitoring the whole thing tries to give him mindless troubleshooting instructions that were written in 10 languages....

I have learned 10 times as much about how the world REALLY works in less than 5 months than I have in the previous 35 years....

Electricity is not Magic. Mechanics is not Magic. Computer Programming certainly is not Magic.

9.9 people out of 10 don't have a fucking clue what I'm talking about now though :)

Me and my mouth that needs about 20k worth of surgery in the next 3 years are entirely OK with that. ;)

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Monday, June 8, 2015 9:45 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Good luck!

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Monday, June 8, 2015 11:22 PM

THGRRI

Best of luck buddy.

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Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:57 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thanks 1Kiki and Thiggri....

I guess I started another thread about my Win. :)

I'm still so pumped up that I barely even feel the pain in my mouth from the surgery I had this morning. :)

First person out of the initial 126 to pass all four tests...

I have done quite a bit of work creating a few documents to help others pass in the future as well though. It's a bummer that nobody in my class really studied them, especially since now they are used as instructive material by the teachers in current classes that started 3 or more months after we did.

I'm happy to help anybody, but it sucks that the percentage of people to pass these tests in my class were so low overall. My buddy from "The Mart" started 3 months after me and he said that every single person that took the test in his class passed the Mechanics I test. They all had access to the document I made on that test from day one. Well... at least he did, and they had it whenever he shared it....

He also has the benefit of taking the tests well after I took them and I can tell him what he should study and what he's learning in class that is way more complex than they would expect somebody to know for the tests.

One of my Electricity teachers said that they'd have to re-make the test after the document I made on Electricity to our class before we all took the test. I didn't believe it after I was one of only 3 people to pass it in my class, but after knowing that 100% of the people passed Mechanics based off of another document I made, I kind of hope they do....

I'm all about helping people, but I was just trying to make sure my class passed, which barely any of them did....

I wasn't looking to make it easy for everyone to pass in the future and make it harder for me to get a good job when dozens of people I've never met can barely pay attention in class and still pass the test by just spending 10 or so hours studying my docs.......

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:46 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Passed the first 2 certs... 3rd and 4th this week.

PLCs tomorrow will be easy. I'm a little leery about Industrial Electronics 2 since we've had almost 0 prep on that....

What I love about this course is that you can't send these skills overseas.... not when you know and keep learning about mechanics and electricity and the computer programs that automate them and keep them inline.

I was talking to the girl cutting my hair today that what I'm learning now can't be shipped to India any sooner than her ability to cut hair could be done by robots controlled by somebody from India.

She laughed and told me about a new machine that can do every step of a deep shampoo for them that was just recently released. I told her that "well.... at least the closest thing to a machine cutting somebodie's hair was the "Suck-Cut" from Wayne's World.

The IBM job I had was just a glorified Computer Babysitting job. It's no wonder that they shipped my salary to India and paid 8 guys with Master's Degrees a living wage with what I used to make off of my "some college" here.....

No more. Not only will I be able to code the ladder logic from the ground up at as a contractor, but I could run the whole shop at a smaller company from here till eternity (or until better robots are made). At least in this arena, I should always have enough of a foothold above technology that the next time 80% of the staff gets laid off, I'm still one of the indispensable talent.

So long as I'm programming things, if a hard-wired relay burns out, it's better to have an expert on site to fix things then have some low level GED guy try to fix it while some dude from India monitoring the whole thing tries to give him mindless troubleshooting instructions that were written in 10 languages....

I have learned 10 times as much about how the world REALLY works in less than 5 months than I have in the previous 35 years....

Electricity is not Magic. Mechanics is not Magic. Computer Programming certainly is not Magic.

9.9 people out of 10 don't have a fucking clue what I'm talking about now though :)

Me and my mouth that needs about 20k worth of surgery in the next 3 years are entirely OK with that. ;)

You're right, I have no fucking clue what you're talking about BUT best of luck to ya.

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