The official title is "Senior Transmission Specialist". I am basically a glorified maintenance man. But, when I say glorified, hells ya I mean it! The meat and potatoes of the job is maintaining television and radio broadcasting tower sites around the country. So this means I have to keep air systems running smoothly; tune 50,000 watt transmitters; replace tubes; dissect, troubleshoot and fix electronics; cut trees with chainsaws; use hovercrafts to move around stuff; engineer and create systems to make them work the way I need it. I'm given nearly unlimited resources, total freedom, 7 hour days (food and breaks can be done during those 7 hours whenever we want if we want, sometimes you just get caught up in work) on a very good salary... man, I feel like I won a lottery or something.
Funny thing is, they administered an electronics exam as a pre-requisite for the job. I knew what a resistor and transistor did, but that was about it. Apparently most electronics people coming out of university fail this thing, I was pretty blank on most of the stuff, but I tried to figure out the most logical solution for everything, winged the test, and BOOM got myself a sweeeeeeeet job!
I know a crapload about electronics after my 3 months of work. I was completely honest about never going to post secondary and REALLY surprised them. Apparently it took them 2 years to searching to find me.
The guys I work with are all geniuses, it's a nice change.
Funny thing is, they administered an electronics exam as a pre-requisite for the job. I knew what a resistor and transistor did, but that was about it. Apparently most electronics people coming out of university fail this thing, I was pretty blank on most of the stuff, but I tried to figure out the most logical solution for everything, winged the test, and BOOM got myself a sweeeeeeeet job!
I know a crapload about electronics after my 3 months of work. I was completely honest about never going to post secondary and REALLY surprised them. Apparently it took them 2 years to searching to find me.
The guys I work with are all geniuses, it's a nice change.