Recent content by HornTootinEE

Thanks for the input. I did get an offer from the consulting firm and it was pretty darn good so I took it. Feeling better about that change already than I ever really did about the one I'm in now. My position now always nagged a little, but I thought that was fear, moving, change, etc. None...

I know electricals and civils in this field. Although the knee-jerk is "electrical", many civils are very good at it as the electrical planning engineers will say "I need a line from point A to Point B and it needs to be 954 ACSR" and then the civil takes over and does it. Electricals can...

Ok, give me your mailing address and the contact info for a good madam and I'll take care of it. ;) kidding...

Thanks solomonb....can you or anyone reflect on consulting vs utility from personal experience?

Here is my story: -Started in a utility substation department 6 yrs ago. -After one year, moved into a field office doing distribution and operations-same utility. -Spent 4 1/2 years there until this June, left for a whole host of reasons, who knows if they were legit anymore -relocated and...

SO, we all hate the use of "engineer" for non-engineers. How do we fix it? Are any of you involved at NCEES, your state boards, etc? I'm asking because I want to know-how to we as a profession take the first step to fixing this? Report all known offenders? Get on our state board to push...

I had success studying/using the NEC Handbook. I hadn't touched the NEC in my job, and some of the practice tests along with the NEC Handbook examples were good enough resources. They at least got you moving around in the book to the major sections enough to know where to go for certain...

Neither team sent the same team they did what a month ago. Either way, first time into the playoffs is pretty cool. Hopefully both teams can keep playing at that level.

Well, there are probably Medical Doctors that feel a Chiropractor, dentist, or optomistrist shouldn't be calling themselves Doctors either. to ee1234: That isn't such a stretch for your wife's friend really. my last employer, we had a VP-Operations who knew nothing about operations, and of...

My other pet peeve (besides the one in this post) is South Dakota State alum who think they have a prayer at 3:00 PM on Saturday, Dec. 1st in Fargo. :) Ok, all jokes aside... My wife's cousin calls herself an engineer. I got crabby with my sister-in-law once about their cousing saying "oh...

Well, as this is the rant room that was my current rant for the day. My "contact angles" aren't working how I want them to right now, and it's driving me nuts just sitting around "waiting" I hate waiting-it doesn't accomplish anything. Don't confuse "waiting" with Patience... they are...

Maybe not, never had a problem of likeability before so didn't think about it. Or the notion that companies just "make jobs" for some good candidate that knocks on their door is a bunch of BS

And on another rant to take off from the P^3 rant... Has anyone REALLY had any luck finding a job based on working their contacts? I've been working my personal contacts who have positions of authority in companies I'd like to work for, and all I get is "well, we don't have a job posted right...

I really liked it for summarizing little stuff, like allowable ampacities per the NEC, allowable number of conductors in a conduit, that sort of thing. It made those sorts of things a lot quicker at figuring out rather than messing with digging out the whole NEC.

Good luck. was previously in a similar situation and it sucked.