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    Job Change - Questions

    " if you're just going to leave that company in a year or two anyway you might as well do it now." It's my thought exactly. There is no point to stay here if I want to leave in future, better take the current opportunity.
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    Weld Tearing with Force Perpendicular to Weld

    As far as I know, in this case your weld is loaded by an axial force plus a bending moment (aka axial eccentric loading). The distance you need for moment calculation is the distance between the loading point and the center of mass of the weld section (13" + half of the length of the weld)...
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    Job change and resignation

    During the notice the worker is paid with the regular salary. Anyway, I resigned this morning, my last day will be the 21st. My boss isn't happy but I had to find a compromise between my and their needs. Thank you for your kind advice. Stefano
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    Job change and resignation

    In Italy the notice you have to respect is mandatory both for the employee who is resigning and the employer who is firing someone and is established by national standard contracts for different categories. If the notice is shorter than the minimum, the employee (if resigning) or the employer...
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    Job change and resignation

    Dear all, As some of you may have read in my previous post, I'm leaving my current company for a railway engineering company which I worked for about two years ago. To make the story short, according to italian law and to my salary level, I have to give only a 7 days notice to my employer...
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    Job Change - Questions

    I opted for the railway job for the reasons you listed and something more. No, 2 (by car) or three hours (by train) in total back and forth. Nap on the train? Yes, especially coming back home, but I don't always fall asleep or sleep good for various reasons, so I can actually recover only...
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    Job Change - Questions

    Dear rotw, I do know I don't get along with my boss much, but I'm trying to take into account all the aspects of the issue. Can you expand more about the "negative attributes", please? I find it difficult to understand your point. Thanks for your time. In the last few days I started thinking...
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    Job Change - Questions

    Dear all, I'm an italian Mechanical Engineer with 6 years of job experience and I'm 30. I worked for three years in a small Oil&Gas company, whose main business was elements for flow measurement and temperature measurement in pipes. Since I has to deal both with CAD design and workmen (apart...
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    Finding your own Career Path

    Dear rotw, I'm simply pointing out that, as humans, we have various interests/hobbies/passions, but doing something simply because you enjoy it and doing it as a profession (though you may like it) are two completely different beasts. Career choices involve many factors which are not at play in...
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    Finding your own Career Path

    Dear rotw, While I acknowledge that doing a job you love/like is a good thing, I find it difficult, at least for me, to have a "passion" for the profession. I have some interests which I pursue during my free time only because of my passion for them, but they're still hobbies and not a job...
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    Finding your own Career Path

    Dear kaconnol, Thank you for your sound and practical advice. If I've ever learned anything in these 5 years, is that: 1 - there is no "ideal" job (provided that you can define what "ideal" means, and this comes only with experience), only good or bad ones; 2 - you can influence in some way...
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    Finding your own Career Path

    Dear all, I'm 29 and Five years have passed since my graduation in Mechanical Engineering. My first job was as a designer in a small firm in the Petrochemical/Energy industry; we manufactured primary flow and temperature elements for international customers. It was not purely technical, but it...
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    Bearing Assembly Contact Loads & Distribution - Free Body Diagram

    AFAIK you should use a method similar to that used to obtain the Stribeck formula, which is employed to calculate the load distribution in a rolling bearing. Stefano
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    Thermodynamic Steam Tables

    Dear Anthony, It is true that for saturated steam you do need only one variable to define the state. So you can obtain temperature simply from pressure. But when you try to calculate enthalpy from temperature, you must take into account that: a) specific heat of steam may not be constant with...
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    Statics problem

    As desertfox put it, the beam will rotate so that the loads (sling tension and W) are aligned. This does seem a bad situation for load lifting. Regards, Stefano
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