Spehro Pefhany wrote:


> Sure, it happens, but it's pretty rare, IMHO, for people to acquire
> deep theoretical knowledge that way. Perhaps Andor's point is that the
> two are virtually orthogonal requirements.

I got my B.E.E. when the director of the lab I worked in said, "You're
doing an engineer's work, you ought to get paid like on. Go get a
degree." Two years later, one of the job offers I got was less than what
I had been making when he pushed me out, but the one I took ended me up
as an MTS at RCA Labs. I never got another degree, but I had a couple of
Ph.D.s who worked as my assistant at one time or another. The part I'm
proud of is two of my technicians becoming full-fledged MTSs.

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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