Yes… 3rd post of the day. Amazing huh?
The past week at work several people have started to stick out as having extremely valuable specialties. Seeing their expertise, I am starting to recognize my own.
There are 2 guys who spawned this post. One is a new guy (maybe here a month) who is already doing stress calculations and analysis that is more complicated than I would even consider. Too complicated even for our $30,000 analysis software to do. Yes… that’s thirty with a THOUSAND at the end of it. If I tried to explain what he’s doing, your head would explode. All of this to make sure that a common solder joint doesn’t break.
The other guy is analyzing vibration of circuit boards inside a box supported within another box. He’s making sure that the circuit cards dont shake so hard that they crack.
Crazy huh?
So what is my specialty? Mechanisms. I seem to be the only guy who can “see” them work before they ever get on to paper. Most people can’t even understand how my stuff works when they see it as a model on the computer…. I’ve even handed my boss a plastic model of something I invented and he couldn’t figure it out. He asked me how it worked and I replied: “magic”. He was not amused.
