In awe of electricians

[Guest]

All my life I've tried to learn beyond the basics of electronics, and
invariably I've hit the same wall. Meanwhile some guys just seem
to "have" whatever it takes to understand these things. Years ago
I used to work in a qualification lab at one of the major computer
mfrs, and I loved listening in to discussions between my boss (who
was by all accounts a guru) and his peers. Electronics in its more
esoteric and theoretical aspects resembles a religion.

No real point to this post, other than to give a hat's off to y'all.

 

[Eeyore]

All my life I've tried to learn beyond the basics of electronics, and
invariably I've hit the same wall. Meanwhile some guys just seem
to "have" whatever it takes to understand these things. Years ago
I used to work in a qualification lab at one of the major computer
mfrs, and I loved listening in to discussions between my boss (who
was by all accounts a guru) and his peers. Electronics in its more
esoteric and theoretical aspects resembles a religion.

No real point to this post, other than to give a hat's off to y'all.

Nice to know we're appreciated. Not so sure about calling us
'electricians' though. They're the guys who fit wiring to homes, offices
and factories.

Graham

 

[Doug Miller]

All my life I've tried to learn beyond the basics of electronics, and
invariably I've hit the same wall. Meanwhile some guys just seem
to "have" whatever it takes to understand these things. Years ago
I used to work in a qualification lab at one of the major computer
mfrs, and I loved listening in to discussions between my boss (who
was by all accounts a guru) and his peers. Electronics in its more
esoteric and theoretical aspects resembles a religion.

No real point to this post, other than to give a hat's off to y'all.

That's nice.

Of course, none of that has anything to do with the kind of work that
electricians do. Perhaps you meant you're in awe of electronics engineers?

 

[Guest]

That's nice.

Of course, none of that has anything to do with the kind of work that
electricians do. Perhaps you meant you're in awe of electronics engineers?

Sheesh, I bet you're a big hit at parties. Lighten up for chrissakes.

 

[Bill Bowden]

That's nice.

Of course, none of that has anything to do with the kind of work that
electricians do. Perhaps you meant you're in awe of electronics engineers?

I'm in awe of electricians that work on 750kv power lines. I wouldn't
go near it even if my cheap DMM read zero..

-Bill

 

[Doug Miller]

Sheesh, I bet you're a big hit at parties. Lighten up for chrissakes.

<sigh> Do you need a glass navel to see where you're going? If you don't
figure out the difference sooner or later, you'll wind up with an unpleasant
surprise some time, when you try to hire an electrician to design electronic
circuits, or, worse yet, hire a EE to rewire your house.

 

[Guest]

<sigh> Do you need a glass navel to see where you're going? If you don't
figure out the difference sooner or later, you'll wind up with an unpleasant
surprise some time, when you try to hire an electrician to design electronic
circuits, or, worse yet, hire a EE to rewire your house.

I'm referring to electricians in a general sense: engineers, designers,
contractors, whatever label(s) you wish to slap on it. Degree of
knowledge isn't necessarily proportional to any one of these titles.

 

[Guest]

Electricians are wire pullers. 'In general', the term would be
Technician OR Engineer.

Idiots like you are quickly 'plonked'.

By all means, asshole.

 

[Guest]

There was a time (late eighteenth century) when "electrician" referred to
a scientist working at the frontier of physics. It wasn't long before
the definition changed, in much the same way that the eithteenth
century's "mechanician" became the nineteenth century's "mechanic."

It wasn't until I started looking up definitions that I realized why
anyone might take offense at the term. I'm not sure what's so
different about electronics, e.g. I've never heard of a doctor who
took offense at being called a "physician" instead of something
else. But at any rate no offense was intended to anyone, except
maybe Mr. Terrell who really does sound like a royal asshole.

 

[Doug Miller]

It wasn't until I started looking up definitions that I realized why
anyone might take offense at the term. I'm not sure what's so
different about electronics, e.g. I've never heard of a doctor who
took offense at being called a "physician" instead of something
else.

Perhaps you need to spend a little more time looking up those definitions.
"Doctor" and "physician" are roughly synonymous. "Electrician" and
"electronics [or electrical] engineer" aren't even close to the same thing.

 

[Guest]

Perhaps you need to spend a little more time looking up those definitions.

Perhaps you need to get a freaking social life.

 

[Doug Miller]

Perhaps you need to get a freaking social life.

You need to polish that glass navel of yours before you run into something...

 

[z]

I'm referring to electricians in a general sense: engineers, designers,
contractors, whatever label(s) you wish to slap on it.  Degree of
knowledge isn't necessarily proportional to any one of these titles

oh, you mean "electron psychiatrists".
"so tell me, are you always this negative?"