WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[fatclue_98]

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2018 is going to be a long, interesting and hopefully worth it year.

You ain't kidding. We're so busy with new work that I'll be interviewing this week (I hate interviewing BTW) for at least 1 CAD person and 2 Assistant PMs.

 

[worldspy99]

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You ain't kidding. We're so busy with new work that I'll be interviewing this week (I hate interviewing BTW) for at least 1 CAD person and 2 Assistant PMs.

I just hired an additional engineer. Internally though.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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You ain't kidding. We're so busy with new work that I'll be interviewing this week (I hate interviewing BTW) for at least 1 CAD person and 2 Assistant PMs.

Good luck with that. Lots of changes it would appear are in the works for me.

 

[libra89]

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Good luck with that. Lots of changes it would appear are in the works for me.

The same changes that you mentioned a couple months back or are these different ones?

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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The same changes that you mentioned a couple months back or are these different ones?

A mix of both. We'll see what happens.

 

[libra89]

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A mix of both. We'll see what happens.

Gotcha. I wish you the best with them.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Gotcha. I wish you the best with them.

I hope they work out too.

 

[worldspy99]

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I missed typing on the WM10 keyboard.
Outside of the camera this Idol 4s is quite nice.

Sent from mTalk

 

[N_LaRUE]

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2018 is going to be a long, interesting and hopefully worth it year.

You're not kidding there...

It's going to be a really interesting year for sure. It's already interesting!

 

[N_LaRUE]

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You ain't kidding. We're so busy with new work that I'll be interviewing this week (I hate interviewing BTW) for at least 1 CAD person and 2 Assistant PMs.

I've done a lot of interviews. I've thankfully haven't done the other direction.

What industry are you in? I'm an electrical designer but I do CAD work as well. I'm setting myself up as a freelancer in France. I work with AutoCAD.

 

[fatclue_98]

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I've done a lot of interviews. I've thankfully haven't done the other direction.

What industry are you in? I'm an electrical designer but I do CAD work as well. I'm setting myself up as a freelancer in France. I work with AutoCAD.

Mechanical, plumbing and storm water. South Florida is a weird market in that mechanical has been separated into its own division so I don't mess around with it anymore. Revit is slowly replacing CAD just as BlueBeam is slowly phasing Adobe PDF out to pasture. I'm old school, give me a set of vellums and I'll build you a hi-rise to the moon.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Mechanical, plumbing and storm water. South Florida is a weird market in that mechanical has been separated into its own division so I don't mess around with it anymore. Revit is slowly replacing CAD just as BlueBeam is slowly phasing Adobe PDF out to pasture. I'm old school, give me a set of vellums and I'll build you a hi-rise to the moon.

My industry moved towards SmartPlant and Aveva. Revit seems to be targeted to buildings. All BIM stuff.

Never heard of BlueBeam. Looks good though.

Mechanical is usually it's own department in my industry.

Funny how industries are different

 

[fatclue_98]

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My industry moved towards SmartPlant and Aveva. Revit seems to be targeted to buildings. All BIM stuff.

Never heard of BlueBeam. Looks good though.

Mechanical is usually it's own department in my industry.

Funny how industries are different

BIM is a four-letter word. What makes it harder is that people who know CAD, Revit or any other design/build program have no working knowledge of the industry and field guys barely know how to open a flip phone. Not to toot my horn but I'm a rarity in that I have a working knowledge of the software and over 30 years of field experience. It's also why I'm overworked, like to drink and have heart disease.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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BIM is a four-letter word. What makes it harder is that people who know CAD, Revit or any other design/build program have no working knowledge of the industry and field guys barely know how to open a flip phone. Not to toot my horn but I'm a rarity in that I have a working knowledge of the software and over 30 years of field experience. It's also why I'm overworked, like to drink and have heart disease.

My industry used to be about experience. However with offshoring were now going that way as well. People with CAD and computers skills and not much else.

I've heard in the US it's been like that for some time though.

I know a few people who worked in the US and we're startled when they found out the people there had little to no qualifications.

Sad state of affairs really. I'm of the belief that my industry will eventually be 100% offshore. All jobs will be there and you'll only have the choice of working there or not working. That my thoughts anyway. It's only a matter of time.

UK, USA and Australia are simply too expensive. I suspect engineer jobs will be few and far between. At least in the fields I worked in.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Work has become a partial puddle today.

It comes with working at a hospital but it still hits hard...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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The one good thing from today was feedback from a client.

So I referred a client for a service in another department that ultimately she was determined to be ineligible for. When I followed up with the client, she started raving how the colleague in the other department talked about how gentlemanly I was in doing the referral.

So here am I enjoying my collar popped a little bit and the actual colleague sends me the generic "nameless email stating the client was ineligible".

#bubblebursting #deadlunchdatefantasy

 

[fatclue_98]

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My industry used to be about experience.

Not anymore. Companies only want the alphabet soup behind your name for the sake of appearances and they leave the grumpy old guys like me to get the jobs done.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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So no 8.0 for the Honor 8. And I really liked that little phone too...just sad.

 

[worldspy99]

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So no 8.0 for the Honor 8. And I really liked that little phone too...just sad.

Can't trust Huawei to update devices anymore. My MediaPad M3 is still stuck on May 2017 security patch.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Can't trust Huawei to update devices anymore. My MediaPad M3 is still stuck on May 2017 security patch.

That's the thing with them. Hardware is gorgeous but support support is questionable. This is why I prefer Xiaomi. Even though they aren't that fast with updates, at least in beta you get weekly updates that work on tweaking the software.