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#1

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21 October 2013, 08:30

When will R*chard J*yce from S3 finally learn that I'm not a fecking mechanical engineer?

He's been sending me info about this permie vacancy in Swansea for a mechanical designer with 3D experience and plastic moulding expertise.

It's been going on for months.

I've tried being polite, but I received 4 emails in 5 minutes about this role & it's driving me slightly fecking not to mention
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21 October 2013, 08:33

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

When will R*chard J*yce from S3 finally learn that I'm not a fecking mechanical engineer?

He's been sending me info about this permie vacancy in Swansea for a mechanical designer with 3D experience and plastic moulding expertise.

It's been going on for months.

I've tried being polite, but I received 4 emails in 5 minutes about this role & it's driving me slightly fecking not to mention

Reply saying you want £750/day and you'll never hear from him again!
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21 October 2013, 08:52

So you're a clanky?

You never said anything before.

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain
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21 October 2013, 11:49

Originally posted by zeitghost

I have "CadStar" (pcb cad, not mechanical CAD or Ideas or any of that tosh) on the CV...

I've gone all nostalgic again.

Twisted pairs - now there's a laugh.
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21 October 2013, 12:44

apparently he has a hardware job for you, start tonight it is a piece of cake. The pay is 'industry standard'.

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21 October 2013, 13:02

Originally posted by zeitghost

Minimum Wage then?

Like it when people get my humour, did you get the cake reference?

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21 October 2013, 13:04

Originally posted by zeitghost

Aye.

I only recently discovered that the impedance of a twisted pair alters with frequency.

It explained a lot.

Notably, why telephone lines are 600R, while an rf simulator tells you it's nowhere near that.

I'd forgotten that. Something to do with the capacitance between the wires. Higher freq => lower impedance, hence the need on PCBs for earthed 'guard rails'. I think.
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22 October 2013, 15:41

Originally posted by zeitghost

In other news, a different S3 pimp phoned me yesterday afternoon about a CAD job.

And this time it was for CadStar.

Pity it was too far away, I'm a bit tied to commuting distance these days.

Oh.

And it was for version 13 rather than the 15 year old version 2.4 that I'm familiar with.

Version 2.4 can't be much different. Or you wouldn't put it on your CV, right?
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23 October 2013, 08:11

Originally posted by zeitghost

I don't think there's a version number on there.

I'm not a CAD jockey anyway, which is what they were looking for.

Too lowly paid.

I guess it must be now. I didn't do badly out of it in the early eighties, when there weren't many about.

And when autorouters were crap. They usually left you with more work to finish the job than if you'd done it all manually yourself.

Especially on multi-layers.
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21 November 2013, 12:46

I can do cad. I can do bounder as well at a push.

While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'
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