
At Forty
Eighteen years in the field, and I still can't answer a simple question: what exactly is it that I do? If I sit down and make a list, over these eighteen years I've picked up — maybe not mastered, but at least gotten competent at — something like this: CAD drafting, EPLAN electrical design, test system design, energy-saving systems, HVAC, water treatment, natural gas and coal mining systems, traffic automation, automotive electronics, aerospace power distribution, landing gear, ignition systems for launch vehicles, PCB layout, analog circuit design, power electronics, STM32 and DSP embedded systems, wiring electrical cabinets, PLC programming, host
