On 1/2/2015 5:49 AM, mike wrote:
On 12/31/2014 4:15 PM, amdx wrote:
Hi all,
The Sig Gen for guitar amps started me thinking.
My son is floundering, after two years at a university he has decided
that's not what he wants. I guess I could say I knew that
from the start, mom didn't. I would have liked to see him finish
and then flounder with job prospects, but he didn't.
He keeps saying he has an interest in music, he plays guitar, talks
about mixing but has no equipment except a computer.
I've got about $25,000 into his education so far and don't mind
spending some more to get him on a track.
What are some job categories in music, music recording, studio
recording. I don't know! What should he be learning?
I know this is very open ended, because he doesn't know what he wants.
Just venting and looking for ideas, he will do what he wants when he
finds it, but I figure my job is to put things in his path until he
trips on something.
As I told him when he went to college, explore everything on campus
until you find what tweaks you! I think he played video games instead.
Any Ideas?
Thanks, Dad
Certainly depends on the college and the major...but...
I expect college to teach you how to THINK.
(military teaches you how to follow orders)
I don't like history/art type majors because they teach you what
someone else did. Not totally useless, but critical thinking is
more useful.
I learned more useful/practical stuff the first week on the job
from an excellent mentor than I did in five years of engineering school.
But if I hadn't had the background, I wouldn't have been able to
comprehend my mentor.
Smoking pot and playing video games is not "going to college."
Maybe a tiered approach.
Let the military teach him how to follow orders, then
order him to go to college.
You can always do whatever you want after a basic education.
You may have started too late.
My dad had a basic college education, a blue-collar job
and a TV repair business on the side.
He bought me a Heathkit short wave radio kit somewhere around age 8.
He steered me toward ham radio.
He paid me 50-cents to check all the tubes in a TV.
I had to keep accounts of my work and payments.
One day, he just took me aside and taught me long division.
He got me a job after school at a friend's TV shop.
I never thought about it at the time, but he may have been
paying my salary under the table.
There was never any question whether I'd be an engineer.
Wasn't my choice.
Nobody told me to do it.
It just happened...thanks to my dad.
Maybe, I always had a bench setup with voltmeter, scope, sig gen,
power supplies, and parts. Showed him ohms law, and verified it.
He was ahead of me in math, so it was a breeze, when I needed help
I ask him. We once made an electric motor. As a project I suggested
we build an electric go kart. We did, but dad did most of the work, but
I did run through motor, axle ratio, tire circumference, speed calcs,
and he understood. he and the neighbor kids had fun.
I will say from the start both kids new they were going to college, my
daughter graduated H.S. 4th out of a 430 class. Somewhere around 10th or
11th grade, I figured out my son was probably smarter than my daughter,
he just didn't do anymore work than he had to. His grades got him into a
good university but he didn't work at it. Now I think it's just video
games and laziness that have brought him to a halt.
Mikek
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