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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...

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...

This may have been covered in other threads, if so a link would be great. Otherwise, my question is has anyone ever sent a cold cover letter and resume to a company of interest without a job being posted? Do you send it to a possible hiring manager in the department you are interested in, or...

Just to preface my post, I work for a utility, and the PE doesn't mean squat to my employer. Ok, That being said, If I passed the PE exam and get my ND license, is it worthwhile to be licensed in other states right now, or is it better to just wait until I actually may need to be licensed in...

How did it go for everybody?

Running into problems on some of the Kaplan PM stuff: #34: Book says the answer is A, 35 deg. I keep getting 51 deg. I'm trying to directly integrate for the average value, because I don't have the equations memorized for all the different rectified types. I figure in my studying I should...

Does anyone have suggestions for studying the NEC for the PE Test? I rarely use the NEC as a utility guy, so that portion is really throwing me. I'm burning a lot of question time in my studying hunting for the right article or table to get what I need.

#27 on the Afternoon portion from the Kaplan book: "Two Single Phase XFMRs are connected in parallel with their primaries connected to a 25 kV supply. Transformer 1 is rated at 600 kVA, 25,000/600 V and Transformer 2 is rated at 500 kVA, 25,000/610 V. The equivalent impedances are 0.02+j0.05...

Anybody here ever work for John Deere or CNH? Any opinions or observations on the type of work you did, the company, etc?

Any NCAA Div. I FCS prognositacators in here? Any takes on the playoff games this past week or those coming up this weekend? Any ideas who will take it all? App. St. looks good, as does Villanova again. But it looks like some dark horse possbilities with upsets from last weekend by Georgia...

How are you supposed to handle those guys? They talk big, but what percentage of time do they actually put you in a better position? Just looking for expierienced thoughts

What are the chances of a power guy ever getting into controls, embedded, signals, communications, etc? After a certain amount of time in one field, will the other areas just consider you entry level again, not taking into account your work force expierience?

Any suggestions on how to evaluate these master's degree programs (Besides accredidation) that are offered online? I have found a few that offer both the Master of Engineering and Master of Science degrees in an "Online' or "distance" format. Does anybody have any expierience with any of these...

What are good resources for PE exam prep? I take mine next April. I plan on purchasing the NCEES practice exam booklet, but I was wondering what else is out there that would be good to get ahold of? Thanks

So what do most EEs working in a power plant do? Is there much in the way of internal electric distribution, controls circutis, etc?

So when do you start looking for other employment or just change your outlook/attitude? Any opinions?

So which PE test should I take as an EE? I am currently in the utility industry, but lets say in a few years I decide this isn't for me and I'd rather be doing power electronics or machine control design, or signal processing, whatever it may be. So if I sit for the power test, does that...