a bit soft... step up to orca's... the real dealDolphin trainer.
Have done for years, not for much longer.Caterpillar have an engineering design office in Tasmania???
Interesting. Was telling a few people today that manufacturing in thailand is on the up.I'm a Mechanical Engineer working for Caterpillar. We design their underground trucks and loaders and they are also build here in Tassie as well, but as of March next year all manufacturing will be shipped off to Thailand. :yell:
Luckily for me engineering is safe for now.
AKA Elphinstone?Caterpillar have an engineering design office in Tasmania???
Sorry.. I only play with next year's model.I could be way off............. but my 525 blew up............... got a spare donk?
I am the opposite of this, I have done the whole uni thing (even wet back again and hated it) but I am looking for a bike mechanic gig. I am sick of the big company and people screwing you over style jobs. I have found a shop that I am trying to get experience with. Even if it is a Saturday here and there at the moment, it might lead to something I actually want to be doing.I'm a bike mechanic. Best parts are helping people get their bikes running sweet, being surrounded by people who are into riding, and getting cheap parts and bikes. The worst parts of the job is dealing with bad customers (usually get one blow up along the lines of "RAAAAAAAR, you mother#$*$ers tried to kill me! You sprayed my disc brakes with WD40! You filed all the teeth on my chainrings so I keep getting chain suck", etc), and having to manage pressure from others to sell unnecessary stuff to customers and managing customer expectations from underquoted/over-promised jobs.
Despite all that, I enjoy it, and I'm thinking of heading back to uni next year to do a masters and get into public health/NGO type work in undeveloped countries, but I'd love to keep up the mechanic skills and do a weekend shift every now and then once I move on from it being my main source of income.
Pretty sure the machine wouldn't even have to be functional to replace me.....infact, the cleaner's son's pet rock filled in for me when I last took leave.Sort of relevant; the rise of machines and automation.
What are people's thoughts how this may affect your line of work?
I guess it's a sliding scale of efficiency but I'm referring to a human role that ends up being performed by a machine.
Oh, I've already done the corporate thing as well man. Couldn't get out quick enough, although I did waste 3 years and a uni degree working as an accountant. At least it forced me to get out of that BS and cemented a healthy desire never to go back. I want to work on the ground in disadvantaged people in Australia or overseas, so far from going back to corporate. Already done another undergrad and enjoyed it but don't want to become an academic, so want to do my quick 1.5yr Masters and get out in the field doing stuff asap.I am the opposite of this, I have done the whole uni thing (even wet back again and hated it) but I am looking for a bike mechanic gig. I am sick of the big company and people screwing you over style jobs. I have found a shop that I am trying to get experience with. Even if it is a Saturday here and there at the moment, it might lead to something I actually want to be doing.
Sorry.. I only play with next year's model.