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igorsMistress said:
Hi Sean! Are you still off work? How are ya doin?
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Yep, still not working! :D might get back into the swing of things around Jan 7th. :) other than that, I'm doing fine, just getting the needed rest! Thanks for asking.
 
perchie.girl said:
I was a manufacturing engineer... I would go through a product and stream line the manufacturing proces... Sometimes redesigning the whole thing in the process. I worked in Telecommunications then. Qualcom is a big company here in San Diego. The Main money maker for them is a device that goes on Tractor Trailers and Trucks... Give them point accurate within a couple of feet through GPS. There was a keyboard in the truck that allowed the trucker to text the office or talk to family. Though that I am sure has been deleted because most truckers have cell phones.

I designed test equipment for installation in a Minivan so they could test their accuracies. I also worked as a team member for building the 777 the first fly by wire jet for commercial use. We designed assembly jigs and work platforms.

Again as a team member I designed work platforms for The C-17. Short runway Cargo plane... you could drive a semi truck into its belly and take off from a short runway like where crop dusters land. The whole under carriage was designed as a lifting body... I also designed the work platforms for the wing join part of the plane. The wings were built as mirror images of each other and built simultaneously fastened to gether with a holding jig so they could use a crane to move them to the next station.

There were twelve stations Building wings... The hanger itself presented a problem because it was so big that there was rain in it... the floor had a slope of one inch in twelve feet. for water drainage. Each platform was identical except for the length of the legs for support. I wound up disagreeing with the checker when he red-lined my drawings. I explained the error of his ways... He hired me right there for his start up Tool and die company.

And so it went for him I designed Electron beam weld chambers for repairing Jet engine blades. I learned a lot from the engineer on that project... Graduate of the University of Mines and he was brilliant.. Funny and couldn't design his way out of a paper bag. BUT He knew Metals inside and out and Chemistry... It was a pleasure to work on his projects.

Aerospace moved out of San Diego thats when I jumped to other industries. I was for the most part a contract employee. Worked three months then got hired direct... worked direct for a couple of years and lay offs. I think I have hit that revolving door about seven times over the years. The last one was a deal breaker... Tired of it all.

deb
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Amazing . It's always cool to know where all the different things we have today come from and how they are made. That's a cool job!! You had.
 
drumstick diva said:
Great to find you Don,:hugs. Your kids are quite artistic. My son(34) doesn't care to acknowledge any G-D. I told him he will at a time he most needs him.
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that's true. God will help you get through tough situations. We would be spoiled and not need God any more if everything was easy. That's sad that he doesn't have a relationship with our father any more.
 

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