Stan Pawlukiewicz wrote:

> I was lucky when I workd for the Navy. I was working for an ONR
sponsor
> on a program that required a bit of theoretical knowledge and at the
> same time going to grad school part time. The work and school
> dovetailed very nicely. The theory was for lack of a better term,
> practical.

That's a very efficient way of learning, isn't it? I did basically
the same thing. Worked for an oil company, trying to solve a very
practical problem by means of theoretically heavy DSP.

On the plus side, one learns a lot very fast. On the down side,
few other people appear to have similar experiences. So it's
a problem capitalizing on this kind of experience in the long term.
The theoretical people see one's practical experience. The
practitioners see the theoretical side. And the laymen see a
voodoo whitch doctor.

Oh well.

Rune