Always one of my faves. He understands what technical people have to put up with in the corporate environment.
I was in electronics. Started off as a technician in the USMC, fixing radar systems on jet aircraft. Back then, the system was primarily vacuum tubes. 
When I got out, I hooked up with a small company in So Cal (didn't want to work for a big one) and kind of grew with it. After a couple of mergers/takeovers, I was laid off in 2003. During that time I worked as a technician/tester, design engineer, and manufacturing engineer. We were first sold to Ball corp, then to two hi-tech firms in succession, the last one being a hostile takeover where they dismantled us. My job went to San Juan, Puerto Rico. I trained the guy who took it.
Since then, the field kind of dried up, especially for old farts like me who were too much into hardware and not enough into software. Never could get programming. Just not my thing.
Anyway, I've been working for temp agencies lately, barely surviving, often with help from family and such. I'm looking forward to at least having a steady income.
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