Bragging on your soldering skills only works if you want things to heat up quickly and cool almost as fast ;) I usually tell 'em I mostly sit around and drink donuts and eat coffee. If they catch the 'error', I'll usually give a more useful answer, like that I'm an electronic traffic cop. =20 I started doing that when I'd tell folks I'm a microwave engineer & they'd ask me to fix their oven...=20 I've always wanted my 'rigged' business card to read "Engineering Insultant". Never had a department admin with the sense of humor to stick me with it tho'. -- Mark Randol, RF Evaluation & Application Engineer ON Semiconductor 901 S. Mopac Expressway Barton Oaks IV, Suite 343 Austin, TX 78746 512-329-5640 (voice), 512-329-8151 (FAX) =20 > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 > [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julian Ferry > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:55 AM > To: Scott McMorrow / Teraspeed > Cc: jeff.loyer@xxxxxxxxx; Signal Integrity Mailing List > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: What do you do? >=20 > When I want to impress the ladies, I avoid the topic of SI completely. >=20 > Instead, I focus on my 99th percentile soldering skills. >=20 > One of these days, its going to work, I just know it.... >=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu