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  1. cadengnr

    Need Reality Check

    And just because something is someone's screwed up version of reality doesn't make it right or justified. Taking responsibility for your work doesn't mean trying to fix an entire company. I never said that was my job. Heaven help me in this case. It appears you've read little of my posts or...
  2. cadengnr

    Reducing Mistakes in Designs

    I could have really used this thread a couple of days earlier.(See "Reality Check," if you dare.) True, I can't stand my boss, but what I can't stand even more is having anyone on the floor, engineer or machinist, catch a mistake when I felt I should have known better. Some thoughts: 1) Make...
  3. cadengnr

    Dealing with a lazy co-worker

    'Sounds like my company - have we not met? I agree; stand up for yourself, and by no means let this guy dump his load on you. Perhaps he golfs with the boss on weekends; regardless, your boss should seek someone else to carry his "extra" load. On the other hand, he may indeed be an excellent...
  4. cadengnr

    Number of women in engineering

    I'm with the boys-and-their-toys theory here. In any engineering class or lecture hall at 'SC I could count the number of girls on one hand. The best-looking one by a longshot was a sorority queen. I once waited nearly an hour for a help session with my 60-year-old EE prof'; after knocking...
  5. cadengnr

    Need Reality Check

    "People that focus on being self appointed QC inspectors instead of doing what they are assigned to do are not generally all that helpful." Really? Whatever the environment, if I catch my error even once the part's off my hands, if it might lose us a customer, safety-critical or not, I'm...
  6. cadengnr

    Need Reality Check

    Response from thread starter to ajack1: Precisely why I get paid $18 per hour: The medical condition that stopped my DOD career mandates part-time hours, and knowingly slims the pickins'. Once I got my A.S. in CAD to go with my B.S., a my friendly former colleague subcontracted me at...
  7. cadengnr

    Need Reality Check

    Thank you all: esp. SWComposites. Although I enjoy the essence of what I do, the where has to change. The wheels are in motion as I write.
  8. cadengnr

    Need Reality Check

    Perhaps I'm hard on myself, but I'm glad there are some of you out there who still value the customer, besides that lone soul on CSPAN whistle-blowing over the Coast Guard's new boats. His answer to "why": he couldn't sleep with himself, sending people out on "deep water" craft that can't be...
  9. cadengnr

    Need Reality Check

    I did 2D and 3D CAD for the government and small businesses, and thought I was pretty good at this stuff until joining my current outfit, which models and makes aircraft spare parts off old manual drawings. As I thought I was getting better, I began feeling underpaid, as I have two degrees and...
  10. cadengnr

    CAD Engineer vs. the Machine(ist)

    Don't Come West, or you'll be an aethiest. No disrespect at all to your situation, but $18/hr F/T makes $31,680 gross. In Florida, that might be a blessing; in California, where the cheapest 1-BD is $900, that's near poverty level. Were it not for my civil service, I'd have been on the street...
  11. cadengnr

    CAD Engineer vs. the Machine(ist)

    See what you make of this: An aero with 9 years' DOD experience had to take a medical retirement with SSDI + partial pension. Improved health affords him the chance to get off the SSDI portion. Single and without debts, he need only earn half his former salary; school and industry folks...

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