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Hey, now! I'm a bona fide Harley ridin', interweb surfin',  beer drinkin' rabble rouser, even at my advanced age (<60 mind you). 

I've taken a few under my wing and watched them leave the nest and soar. Unfortunately, that seems to be happening less and less as time goes on. 

Ed Popielarski
Engineering Manager


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-----Original Message-----
From: Stadem, Richard D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:18 AM
To: TechNet E-Mail Forum; Ed Popielarski
Subject: RE: [TN] Refreshment

Speak for yourself, Ed. Sounds like you have one foot in the grave already. 

I know many "senior" engineers who have a very high level of energy, have kept up with technology and science, including the 'net, and you could not take their laptops away from them unless you pried their cold dead fingers from it. They are enthusiastic, work well with folks from all age groups, and are eager to share their experience and knowledge as well as learn from the freshly recruited grads. While it is true that the new grads are coming online with certain skills and tools not known or understood by some of the older folks, they are no less enthusiastic and eager to solve today's problems, and they do their pioneering and thinking outside the box just as well as anybody, in fact, perhaps even more so. 

They just need the proper coaching and encouragement, and 99% of them are ready and willing to step up and start hitting homeruns right where you left off. It is up to us to help them, learn from them, teach them what they are willing to learn from us, and then we all benefit.

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Popielarski
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:33 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Refreshment

Inge,

I, too, have noticed the gradual fade, and it's my opinion we, ourselves, are to blame. Similar to what has happened inside NASA, the "pioneers" that sculpted the industry are dead, dying, retired and tired. We as a society failed to properly backfill with fresh talent and the methodology of upstarting engineering grads is much different than "in our day". Seems to me the new generation engineers have developed a love affair with their desktop computers and the internet (something that didn't even exist when we were sprouting wings) and "we" collectively, are transforming to a more digital existence, as opposed to the hard, wet, hot physical realm. As this evolution proceeds, much of the pioneering spirit is lost, as well as the good-old-fashioned "chutzpah" to "break outside the box, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Job preservation has become a primary focus and this has really retarded the craft.

Just my $0.0199999 and ventilation of an issue that I've been containing for some time now.

Ed Popielarski
Engineering Manager


                               970 NE 21st Ct.
                              Oak Harbor, Wa. 98277

                              Ph: 360-675-1322
                              Fx: 206-624-0965
                              Cl: 949-581-6601

https://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces?hl=en&ll=48.315753,-122.643578&spn=0.011188,0.033023&ctz=420&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Inge Hernefjord
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 3:00 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Refreshment

Technet, once a supernova...now just a fading sparkle. Time for renaissence (french)? Blood transfusion? Vitamin therapy?  Dopamin cure?
.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, ...sorry....YYYAAAWN...

Inge


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