> 3) Even if you're hoping that your hobbyist work will make you stand out,
>    it shouldn't dominate the resume at the expense of education/previous
>    jobs.  Say enough to make it clear you have "extra" skills, but the
>    actual details are more of an interview subject than resume subject.
>    The ability to solder is an "extra skill", BTW - you don't have to
>    be designing 4 layer circuit boards to stand out - there are far too
>    many CS/EE students that have never put together a KIT...

        I hear you there, during a lab in 3rd year of my EE program where we were
building an AM transmitter I became a sort of TA, had to help a few students
with figuring out which side of a diode was the cathode, and another student
asked me to solder their wire to a binding post. You can't blame them
though, up until that point we hadn't been required to do ANYTHING without a
breadboard. A 4th year course I took did what should have been done in first
year: we had to build a circuit completely with a "permanent" technique,
wire wrapping, point to point wiring, PCB, anything but a breadboard. Comps
I can understand, most of them will never touch real hardware, but EE's?
TTYL

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