Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Ray Swindle wrote:
Hello Jim. Just got back from a six hour round trip drive to Troup, Tx to attend memorial service from friend my wife and I went to school with. Quite a character and American Patriot. He graduated Valedictorian in our 600 student class and went straight into the Army a couple weeks after graduation. He immediately volunteered and was assigned Southeast Asia duty. He never attended college, yet he taught himself how to program software for mainframes and sustained a 40 year career attaining a vice president position. Neat guy who loved his family.
About the R3, I think Canon hurried that out for the wildlife folks. They are a big market for them and they were losing ground with the competition. I think we will know how Canon is structuring the lineup by the end of the year. Right now, I would say their RF lens lineup is a killer family of lenses and is their strength.
We will see.
God Bless him Ray!
College isn't for everybody and not going to one doesn't mean one doesn't have the skills to achieve higher technology.
Many of the skilled jobs today, a college degree won't help you!
Dan
Dan, I think I fall into that category. Worked 20 years in aircraft maintenance, then got a BBA. A friend who worked at Boeing Aerospace asked me for my resume after I graduated to give to his boss. They hired me for a quality engineering position because of my maintenance experience. I spent the last half of my career as an aerospace safety/quality/reliability engineer. Never applied that BBA during my professional career, however it did help me in my personal finance planning. That sheepskin got me the interview, but my coursework played no part in my hiring. I don't think that happens much anymore. A really good friend of mine got a degree in psychology while he worked part time in the IBM mailroom. After graduation he told them he would be looking for a job in social services. His IBM boss sent him to interview with the software people who told him they were going to make a programer out of him. Remember when Neil Armstrong was piloting the Lunar Lander looking for a good landing spot and the ground controllers in the control room were panicking? My friend with the psychology degree was the IBM guy in the backroom calculating the remaining fuel on board the Lander to communicate the results to the NASA controller.
But heck, I just paid two plumbers $650 for about 2 hours of work to reroute some water drains and insulate my pipes. Not a bad job if you can pass the plumbing exams.
Yes Ray..I was drafted out of college, enlisted in Basic for Ranger School(if I passed the exam-RASP) spent my 6 years in, returned to college to finish my degree on Uncle Sam's "dime" taught 6 months in an inner city high school in Baltimore and said "this ain't for me!!!"
Luckily a hs classmate worked for the FBI and at a reunion told me another federal agency was looking for agents with my "military skill set" and so goes my 40 year story!
I also had a highschool classmate that forgoed college, enlisted- was an aircraft mechanic and ended up being a "project manager" at NASA-Greenbelt.
Many of these fine stories to tell!
Jan 22, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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