Well as for myself, I have been laid off from my job that I have worked at for 18 going on 19 years. I have been work as a Computer Service Technician for all these years. Since I am 61 years old I have pretty much been keeping busy with my Computer and listening to some of the chatter on the Ham Radio bands. I have done some website work and blog work to keep me busy.
Now the question is, do I want to go back to my old job when this is over. The answer to that is no, for a few different reasons. You see I have never had a raise or cost of living increase in all these years. They started a bogus incentive program, which was a waist of time. I have seen my share of some dishonest things with new computers where the warranty has been voided by a company that is not warranty authorized upgrading drives and memory in new laptop computers. There are too many other things, but I won't mention them.
I have my resume out and am looking into going back to work as a Electronic Technician. I have my AAS Degree In Electrical Engineering, with the Master In Electronics. I had worked as a Electronic Technician from 1984 to 1996 and left to work as a Computer Technician. Unfortunately the company was sold twice and I seemed to get the short hand of the stick when it did not work for the current company. I am the last one left for the original company and have been treated very poorly due to the printer repair part of things not working very well for them.
Okay back to the Ham Radio things, well I am waiting for some good weather to do some antenna work. It was a little warmer here, except for some snow today and more predicted. As I am getting older, I really don't want to do any roof climbing. I am looking into maybe a vertical mast with a delta loop on it. I do have some vertical antennas, but not a lot of room for ground radials to bury. Oh well I will just have to wait out the weather and decide what to do.
