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Ditto. The ASET was 1969. :) I built my own ham radios back then...with TUBES!

Not anymore. :)

OMG...I bow down before thee!!! TUBES? We learned only enough about tubes to get (in my case) a 2nd Class license.

Offers still come up for Analog stuff, mostly Power Supplies (I am the MASTER of Power Supplies!) and some test stuff. But, I'm doing computers for the past 12 years.

I actually had a community college class in them, did all the math etc. :)

Got my amateur advanced back then too, though I haven't been on the air much in recent years.

I haven't found work in electronics around here ( west Denver ) since around 1995. Pretty much given up on it. Trying desperately to find something I could make a good living with now.

Looking pretty dismal without much money, and at age 58.

I wish. :)

I'm surprised you didn't jump into computers; after all, it just an extension of the Electronics field. And, even early on, all we are is Board Swappers..."Sorry, you have a bad Video Card. I can repair your machine for $350.00..." We were alos making $250 or more on the sale of a machine back then, but the REAL money was in networking. I always worked for someone else; I'm a coward, but I did have a few clients on the side. One would upgrade everything right around Thanksgiving, and pay $800-$1200 each time!

Luckily, I was laid off from an Aerospace MFG and got the Novell course ($8500 in '93!) paid for.

But, the past 5 years have been hard even at that..."Thank you for calling IBM, how may I BE HELPING you today" ;) (I used to work Help Desks...)

My AS degree was 1969 and I didn't have the money to go back to school all over again and learn them. If I had it to do all over again ( unfortunately we never do ) I'd have taken computer programming instead, right at that community college level, and started out in programming way back then. I probably would have made a fortune as a programmer before the tech bust.

Jeez.

And they're even outsourcing that kind of support to India now, where the people can't even understand us, or us them.

(that's what I meant when I said "How my I be HELPING you...! Think of how your local 7-11 clerk speaks. My last boss HATED when I did that, but the programmer, who also got displaced from a good job, would chuckle every time I said that...)