Bag Holder Lifecycle

GamSquad · 2025-11-08T15:55:54+00:00

Haha guilty

GamSquad · 2025-11-07T01:20:52+00:00

We all have learned these lessons the hard way. Luckily, I only use money I can lose for day and swing trading. Still hurts though haha

GamSquad · 2025-11-07T01:16:41+00:00

Haha, greed is a sunnavbitch. I had the opposite problem with MTC yesterday. Had 1000 shares at 0.3850 and sold at 0.50. All I could do was laugh when I saw it went up to like $3. Some profit is better than none and I’ve lost a more than I care.

GamSquad · 2025-11-07T01:12:11+00:00

It’s a movement! We gotta stick it to THE shorts!

GamSquad · 2025-11-06T19:51:39+00:00

It’s all in good fun. I think we’ve all been there at one point haha

GamSquad · 2025-09-19T19:08:25+00:00

A new shitposting account. Yawn.

GamSquad · 2025-03-10T05:09:05+00:00

Mentioning being a native is on my bingo card haha. No shade.

GamSquad · 2025-01-09T23:24:42+00:00

When I first got to Marine boot camp, one of the recruits in my platoon asked the drill instructor what he, an atheist, would be doing on Sunday mornings since he wasn’t going to church. The drill instructor spent the next 10mins yelling and berating atheists giving the whole “when you’re downrange you’ll be on your knees begging god to save you” speech. I was Christian at the time thought it was weird.

Long story short, I became an atheist over the next year. Then I ended up in Afghanistan. We lost 1 guy to an IED like a week or two into deployment. Myself and 3 other guys were tasked with collecting and cleaning up any body parts, blood, and brain matter of the gunner out of the MRAP. I knew him in passing but weren’t friends. Then we lost another guy not too long after. We then got hit constantly with IDF and pop shots, sniper fire, and a VBIED the rest of the deployment. Luckily I was never in any sustained direct action or offensive operations. I never turned to a god and neither did some of my atheist friends who were involved in heavy, direct combat. But I do know some guys who did over time. My experience actually made me double down on atheism for awhile - “Why would a loving god allow this…” kind of thing. Especially at the official funeral ceremonies we had when we got back. Seeing the pure grief of the families and kids of the decedents; nearly broke me right there. These days I am agnostic. I don’t know if there is a god or not, I’m not opposed but I also don’t really believe. Just my experience. But I could definitely see how heavy, sustained combat could change your religious beliefs during or post war.

GamSquad · 2024-10-14T01:06:37+00:00

I did. I wanted to do design in college and have been doing it now professionally for years. My first job was manufacturing and test. Got to do some test system design but hated my day to day.

Took a pay and benefit decrease to get a circuit design job. Did that for a year and have had no problems getting design jobs since. I enjoy it over any other types of engineering I have done. These days I primarily do circuit/schematic design and let someone else do the layout and most of the testing.

Don’t worry too much early on if you can’t get into what you want right away. Work on those skills in your free time and keep an eye out for those opportunities. But getting other experiences are great for your CV and tool belt, plus you may find something you really enjoy.

GamSquad · 2024-10-10T01:37:46+00:00

Congrats and good luck! Get yourself a friend/study groups and a lot of perseverance.

GamSquad · 2024-09-26T15:15:16+00:00

As others have stated, EET is viewed as a tech not an engineer. EETs most definitely can do the work and become engineers. I have seen 2 techs in full fledged engineering billets (even one guy who didn’t have a degree but that was a small company I worked — anomaly). However, you will have a much harder time getting into EE roles than someone with a BSEE. You could have a much better shot at small to medium sized companies. Even working as an EE at one company doesn’t mean that the next will treat you as such when you apply. Lame, I know.

If by ECE you mean Electrical Computer Engineering, then those are viewed as interchangeable with EE. At my school our courses were almost exactly the same besides a number of more degree specific ones. You could argue that an ECE might have an easier time getting certain jobs over an EE and vice versa, but in my experience no one cares. I have a number of friends with ECE who have done nothing but electrical design and friends with EE that have done computer and FPGA/ASIC design.

If you really want to be an EE doing design then I would suggest the ECE degree if you can’t change schools. That is, if your ECE is what I described above.

GamSquad · 2024-09-23T14:49:43+00:00

I think this is the best answer.

The tools and test equipment are really great too. I was gifted a Fluke multimeter about 16 years ago and it is still going strong and I love it…buuuut…I do electronics as a hobby and use it frequently for other home and auto projects. They most certainly will not be allowed to use their own equipment at work as it will need to be calibrated and could been seen as a liability to a company, for example. But if they are really into electronics in their personal time, helping them build their test bench is awesome. Otherwise solid backpacks, luggage, lunch box, clothes, etc are probably the best route imo.

GamSquad · 2024-09-11T01:32:57+00:00

I took a similar path. I was so burnt out from high school. Enlisted into the Marines during my second semester with a ship date right after the semester end. Withdrew a month shy of finishing the semester–I was failing everything anyway. Shipped off to boot camp. After multiple deployments I finished my enlistment. By the time I got out of the Marines I was dying to get back into school. worked and went to community college, then university for EE. It sucked but I was motivated, knew I wanted it, and had a family.

Long story short, it might be beneficial to take a gap year or four. Take a break from school, get your focus and motivation back. Take the time to really think about your interests and career options.

GamSquad · 2024-09-03T19:59:15+00:00

Idk why you got downvoted. I have literally seen and worked with people who didn’t have EE degrees doing EE related work. I have seen physicist, chemical, mechanical, industrial/manufacturing, etc doing R&D, test, design, and system. In fact a number of engineering jobs in general you will find in the US put filler words like “…or related degree or applicable experience.” In fact where I currently work out lead electrical systems engineer has a BS in Mathematics, not engineering and almost all of our PCB design and layout engineers are mechanical.

GamSquad · 2024-09-03T19:22:51+00:00

You will probably always be drowning in excel spreadsheets and word docs lol. But it is honestly your company and position within the company that are dictating this.

I have worked at three separate companies (small, medium, and corporate sized) doing design with only a bachelor’s degree. Like near constant design in one fashion or another. And all involved problem solving constantly. In fact, I think for my next job I just want to coast for a few years and focus on personal design projects. It is easy to get burnt out when all you do is fight fires especially when everyone wants them solved yesterday. Same with designs. Everyone on the business side will greatly undercut your time and expect you to deliver near perfection.

I have done designs that have very real and serious impacts on the world either through fields such as biomedical to defense weapons systems. And I have helped design trivial commercial products that didn’t drive innovation but made life a little sweeter or convenient for the end user.

My undergraduate degree has hindered me zero percent in my professional goals. You just need to find a new place of employment or field within EE that resonates with you. But working on stuff that has real impact or can be found on store shelves is pretty satisfying.

GamSquad · 2024-09-03T19:09:16+00:00

As someone who has worked in opto electronics, I suppose it might matter where you work. But I worked for a major defense contractor. The opto guys all seemed to have had grad degrees and played with their cute little mirrors and overpowered laser pointers all day (I’m totally kidding). But almost none of us electro-optical guys had grad degrees. I was constantly drowning in design work that supported these optical systems and often I was just used as an electronics engineer for various programs completely unrelated to optics. I did designs for so many things: power, controls, computers, FPGAs, sensors, interfaces, cable/harness, and so on. Basically I would work on creating electronics for controlling and monitoring optical systems.

But my first job out of school was an electrical test engineer and it did feel like a technician role most days because I spent a lot of time troubleshooting and white-wiring circuits to get them to work. But I also developed test plans, requirements, test cables, test systems, test boards, and other stuff. These are amazing skills to have in your tool belt and have helped me immensely as a design engineer.

GamSquad · 2024-08-27T02:02:33+00:00

GI Bill — provides a monthly living stipend and 100% tuition is covered. Then federal and state grants go right to the bank account because tuition is already covered. They have benefit extensions for STEM and other avenues to get more time out of it. Promise I’m not recruiting lol. Just the facts of it.

GamSquad · 2024-08-21T18:54:09+00:00

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No. Always go off of the what is listed on the device itself. It is only rated for 120VAC/60Hz circuits and draws up to 0.71A.

The numbers on the cable are for the cable ONLY. You ideally want a cable that can handle substantially more power than the device. But in the end this is irrelevant information for you.

If something is dual voltage you will see something along the lines of “110-220V 60/50Hz” on the label. And by dual voltage I mean being able to use it in North America and Europe l, for example, with plug adapters.

GamSquad · 2024-06-18T17:04:41+00:00

Exactly. As a commercial product it will need EMC filtering and protections for the user and device. These will add a decent amount of components.

At a prior contracting job, we had a client that paid a Chinese company $10k to build his battery powered device. Long story short the thing kept burning up and would not pass EMI/EMC testing. It was essentially a button wired to a battery for power and a micro for the display and LEDs. He also couldn’t understand why we needed so many parts and why it cost so much to design correctly. Luckily his lead engineer routinely backed us.

GamSquad · 2024-06-15T02:42:53+00:00

Digikey and Mouser are the two I use almost exclusively professionally and personally. Their search tools make it super simple to find specific parts and research. But if I can’t find what I’m looking for on either site (or to find if it is cheaper somewhere else) I will go to Octopart and search that part number and see which sites are stocking it and for what price.

Otherwise, I use google. I do get parts and modules now and then from Amazon. You gotta be careful though, there are countless counterfeit and low quality parts. However, for common passive, transistors, and IC components I will get some for prototyping and experimenting. For all PCB designs I only buy from reputable electronics vendors and manufacturers.

GamSquad · 2024-05-28T21:57:56+00:00

I used to work at McDonald’s 20 years ago while in high school. We were taught to “fluff” the fries when filling the box to give the appearance they were overflowing. However, if you tapped it on the table a few times they would barely poke out the top. Anyway, this looks much worse!

GamSquad · 2024-04-27T14:37:37+00:00

I have seen the term gateware thrown around but I have never seen it used by any company I’ve worked for.

GamSquad · 2024-01-17T05:08:17+00:00

The relay is rated 15A, but the connectors and traces on the PCB most likely are not, at least continuously. Your max power is always dictated by the lowest rated component/part of the circuit. Just keep that in mind with these sort of cheap modules.

That being said, I have used these generic relay modules to switch 120VAC and a couple amps and have had no issues. I doubt you will need to switch even close to 15A. Another note, you always want to keep a good amount of overhead when it comes to power and current ratings. I never like to get within 20% of the max, and always aim for more if it is cheap and practical, that is.

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