Hi,

maybe I am a strange animal here, because of my official attest is for
economist. And now I work as technician, engineer and university
instructor (for informatics & electronics). The ground of this is, that in
the obsolete time of socialism (I'm in Hungary) there was a Paramilitary
Teaching Program, where young people having interest to study voluntarily
some technical thing (it was driving, parachutting, driving plane,
becoming to a HAM, shooting, diving, etc.), and I joined to "become to
HAM" program. It was really good! On the university for economics I
studied software engineering, and worked afterwards as programmer. In my
programming job there were more and more challenges crossing the hw-sw
barriere and I must study also such things. My 1st micro was Z80. Now I
have also a small company beneath of my full time job on the university,
where I work with an electrical engineer together. It is very interesting
to see how different our approach can be; he tries to solve problems from
the h/w side and I always from s/w side (PIC programming). Of course, the
final solution depends on the particular situation, but it is more
efficient than pure s/w or h/w solutions. I am also trained enough to
suggest hardware solution and understand their particular advantages and
drawbacks. Beneath, I solder also prototypes of my developments and can
also deal with digiscope and DMM. I enjoy the advantages of the multi-side
approach and the need of continuous self-teaching. Only the time is short.
There is a proverb in Hungary: good clergyman learns until dead. And it is
true.

Regards,
Imre