Question Does anyone here have the right stuff?
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technicians and scientists come a dime-a-dozen. Especially fat cushion-crushing ones with rolls of lard hanging over the arm rests.
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Given college costs nowadays, it's probably closer to 50,000 dimes for a dozen.
But hey, thanks for the insulting stereotype! Much appreciated.
lol, high five!
ky
Director of Manned Spaceflight
I thought there was a NASA Technician on the forum.
Hlynkacg
Aspiring rocket scientist
I am a US Navy Aircrewman, I have lots of stuff some of it's right, some of it isn't.
As for the comment about technicians being a dime a dozen, go get a degree in aerospace engineering and then you can talk trash.
As for the comment about technicians being a dime a dozen, go get a degree in aerospace engineering and then you can talk trash.
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My uncle works at Baikonur as equipment testing technician or something close.
I tried showing him Orbiter, but he's not into "computer games".
Also, it's not necessary to be on this forum to play Orbiter, so who knows who use it? Martins did a presentation for ESA, after all.
I tried showing him Orbiter, but he's not into "computer games".
Also, it's not necessary to be on this forum to play Orbiter, so who knows who use it? Martins did a presentation for ESA, after all.
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wait till the techs at TSC hear that, they'll send godzilla after you.:lol:
I was once told that by a recruiter, in more or less the same words. He said that technicians and tech people in general are to be exploited by upper management. And more generally anyone doing tedious grunt work is also to be exploited.
He said he wished tech people had a more alpha-type personality so they wouldn't be so wimpy and could stand up for themselves better. It's a shame, he continued, because tech folks are the more educated and capable workers of low-end-middle-class sheep.
He said he wished tech people had a more alpha-type personality so they wouldn't be so wimpy and could stand up for themselves better. It's a shame, he continued, because tech folks are the more educated and capable workers of low-end-middle-class sheep.
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PeterRoss
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You mean - to become a manager myself? Screw you! I prefer working with technics :tiphat:
No, not to become a manager, but to stop the "pushing around" of technical personnel.. However, a good technical person will quickly learn how to manipulate a manager into doing their bidding.
What are you referring to as "tech people," anyway?
PeterRoss
Our friendly neighborhood Putinist
Well, technical personnel is meant to do some tech stuff, you know. And managers are to manage stuff. Manager gives me some work to do, I'm being paid for it. What's the problem? I'm not feeling myself like being pushed around or anything. Yes, my boss is an... not very nice person, but it is his choice - to be a manager. I don't want his level of responsibility or to bother myself with all that paperwork he has to do. His paycheck is bigger? Well, the headache too.
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Someone of the great scfi-fi writers (I believe it was Bradbury but I might be wrong) have said that humanity have gone completely wrong way because we have I-Phones and have no colonies on Mars yet. That sentence I can agree with. And you can really blame upper manages and people of that kind for that because it's them who decides where to go. But what motivates them to choose the way? It's their personal greed mainly. Maybe engineers would choose another way if they had a chance, just maybe.
PhantomCruiser
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It took me years to perfect the ability to get a manager to think that my idea was his idea. He may get the credit, but often there are people above him/her that 'know the score'.
As for pay, well my immediate supervisor may get paid more (on paper), but he also doesn't get paid for overtime. Come fall me and a few buddies will sit and compare check stubs (sometimes loudly, and when managers are near). We'll often ask them if they've broken $100K yet. My manager looks down sheepishly and says that he's not there yet. I don't give him too hard a time, honestly he's a nice enough guy, but he took a manager slot instead of a technician slot. He's an engineer (mechanical) and got stuck with a bunch of electronics guys.
I've worked for some real idiots too. It does take some people longer than others to realize that the crew that works for you can make you look good, or bad, if they are willing to take the pain, making a manager look bad (and eventually replaced) isn't difficult. But it's a group effort. And not painless.
@Hlynkacg H-60's I presume (I hope)? I loved my time working as an avionics tech on the helos. P-3's are for sissies. When you get a 1000 hour pin in a helicopter, that's an accomplishment to be proud of. 3000 hours means you've made it to Jedi Master status.
So in short, I'm a technician. And proud of it. Engineers dream it up, but a tech makes it work. Once (maybe twice) in a lifetime a good engineer will pair up with a good tech and they become an unbeatable combo (until discovered by management and they promptly get disbanded).
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