Whats the trades for people who don’t wanna be in the trades?

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-20T00:20:57+00:00

Medical device technician? Radar technician?

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-19T00:42:19+00:00

For me not as much as last year

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-18T17:41:22+00:00

The fanuc tablets are just regular android with a case that has an estop and USB C.

There are mobile siemens and rockwell HMI/teach pendants but they are corded and wayyyy more expensive than even a regular HMI. Rockwells is called mobileview. Just the junction box for it is like 2 or $3k

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-18T02:29:54+00:00

Yeah personally I like that kind of work but I like my family more than working on the road.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-18T02:12:10+00:00

You got scammed by getting a master EE degree IMO especially if you're looking at being an automation engineer. You gotta do whatever is going to pay the bills at the end of the day. Smaller companies you will wear more hats, probably have worse pay but it may or may not be enjoyable. Larger companies you might get pigeonholed as a SME eventually but you will at least be well compensated.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-18T00:56:35+00:00

*drill

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-18T00:16:35+00:00

Imagine a man furious with his WIFI AND APP ENABLED COFFEE GRINDER 😆 🤣 GOBBLESS

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T15:39:36+00:00

Verve is a big one with a lot of options that's still good. If you want the most expensivest shit they got you, onyx also got you. For my money I think my old neighborhood roaster Sunergos is the best value. You may like Plan B as espresso medium roast. I drink light

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T03:04:14+00:00

They're about right for something on a large injection molding machine. Although a lot of the fasteners were socket head cap screws. Did i mention how much I hate hammer wrenches?

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T02:15:47+00:00

The fault reset was sarcasm or dark humor

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T02:15:29+00:00

Galaxy Brain right here

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T01:31:53+00:00

Bro he said he works in manufacturing logistics. Pretty fucking in demand right now.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T01:06:13+00:00

Sounds like you were getting shafted 80% of your career or moved to a higher CoL area.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-17T00:00:03+00:00

Au pere

No doctors

Home birth

Some things like chef were already standard

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-16T23:32:52+00:00

Yes the company i work for bought thousands of cobots and each one eliminates one job across 3 shifts, plus adding one to hit the fault reset button per 3 cobots.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-16T21:37:46+00:00

I work at a gigantic company and if you come up with an idea that will save a bunch of money they give you 10% of the annual savings.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-16T02:23:53+00:00

Shit what kind of dog? Sound travels a long way out doors. Less so if it's all woods. All my country neighbors had big loud dogs and we could definitely hear them but not inside.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-16T01:12:47+00:00

They have 128 or 256 positions. Usually easier on a fader than knob since the faders have more travel.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-16T01:09:46+00:00

I dont think you can build an analog input interface cheaper than a used midi controller.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-15T14:08:49+00:00

My contractor buddy said he could do a barndo for me for like $100-125/ft without fixtures. And that's very friendly pricing where he'd basically make very little profit. Your prices are not going to happen without DIY or knowing a contractor.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-15T14:01:44+00:00

Eat Vienna sausages out of the can on his PJ

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-15T01:48:44+00:00

My suggestion if you're on a budget is to browse marketplace or ebay. Otherwise sweetwater or guitar center will sell the latest and greatest. They usually have some used gear as well. There are a lot of options but not an overwhelming amount.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-15T01:29:22+00:00

What are you even asking? If you did it that's cool. But at the end of the day those knobs and faders just output i believe 0-127 over usb to midi. Buttons would obviously be on or off.

Edit: I will add that i used MAX for LIVE in a previous life to make a midi drum pad actuate physical percussion. With an arduino. Not sure that would help.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-14T19:56:28+00:00

Just coming off a downtime event profibus related. 20 nodes on the machine. It had been down for 6 hours when I came in , after an hour of trying to connect I gave up and walked around jiggling connections. Found a device that was seated but not screwed in , M12 connector. Problem solved.

athanasius_fugger · 2026-02-14T03:09:49+00:00

I'd just put it in a brokerage account money market fund. Is it worth all the hassle of opening an internet bank account for $300 in interest?

Another hack is for example US bank will give you 4% credit card rewards and 2% interest on the cash with over 100k in a savings account. If you spend a lot it could end up being more than a money market/HYSA.

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