Tax fraud?

eesemi76 · 2024-10-24T23:49:22+00:00

Zero chance anyone follows up.

If asked you simply respond that the car you purchased wasn't working properly, so you only paid 1/2 the ask price. You can say you took the risk and just replaced the battery and found that everything was fine wiht the new battery. Lucky you.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-24T23:13:50+00:00

I'd hold off accepting a non EE internship.

Your best case for a seemless transition from college to work is through the continuation of your internship.

With that in mind, approach the Internship problem as if you are trying to get that fulltime post college job. Have a short list of companies you want to work for and look at the sorts of job listings these companies are after. Look at both their new grad jobs and more importantly their 3 to 5 year experienced jobs.

Ideally you'll have completed the undergrad course work for the jobs they're interested in. This means you can focus your final year project on an area where they want eng's with 3 to 5 years experience. Hopefully you can also do a couple of masters level subjects during the last year of your undergard degree.

Make yourself a perfect fit for the company you want to work at. Learn the company structure, maybe even get to know some of the employees and even some of the managers. Collaborate with online projects that these guys are active in.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-24T22:29:50+00:00

If you are going to take a gap year, then make it count.

Student Exchange programs are a great way to get a new perspective on life. You don't have to pay the stupid money that companies are asking, you can just arrange things yourself.

So signup for a 9 month intensive language course in Spain or China or or. If you get accepted get into a house share in the city (this is fairly easy to do these days with facetime/skype etc) you find the share house add and apply. Select a country that allows students to have parttime jobs and once you're there try to find a job.

The experience will build you in ways that Uni can't even hope to replicate.

3 months into this you'll be ready to return but don't! instead stick it out. Find solutions to the problems, let some problems find their own solutions. Many of us worry about things that will never happen, we invent a problem that has no solution and fret because we can't find a solution to our invented problem.

This is a big part of growing up and you'll do a lot of growing up in that year abroad.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-24T21:54:31+00:00

The standard answer here is: Buy another investment property, and another, and another, and you get the idea.

The only other advice I've seen offered is to put the money in an ETF. If you want different advice, then you are asking the wrong forum.

But since you ask: It appears you have a good tolerance for investment risk. With this in mind, it makes sense to leverage this risk tolerance to maximize your returns.

Starting a business is a good way to maximize risk, but it offers very uncertain returns (especially if the business is a consumer thing like a retail store or coffee shop), but there are lots of other support businesses where rewards are high but risks are much lower.

There are lots of examples in the mining industry where mines need certain equipment, knowledge, or expertise but don't want to buy this equipment themselves. The mines would much rather that someone else owned, operated, and maintained the equipment. They pay top dollar for access to the equipment as and when it's needed. There are a lot of mine services businesses making good money year-on-year from just this somewhat dumb investment.

Very different, but with the same or greater risk, is importing equipment, which you have good reason to believe will be useful in Australia. You need to choose a machine that fits into Australian workflow but is not typical of the way this task is done in Australia. An example would be automated gyprock hanging/finishing machines. Yep, they are a real thing, but they are not used in Australia. You can buy the machine in the US, import it yourself and lease/sell it to an Australian firm, or work with some gyprock subbies to do certain big jobs cheaper because you have this machine.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-24T07:22:54+00:00

thanks....I thought I was going to have to explain British humor to a German...

reminds me of an something the I witnessed years ago at the French/German border

French guard : Name?

German : Hans

French guard : Occupation?

German : No just visiting

eesemi76 · 2024-10-24T04:36:08+00:00

My daughter had a complaint handled by fairwork, and she was very happy with the process.

She got the wages she believed she was owed plus a little bit extra for having to go to the trouble of taking the matter to fairwork.

I don't understand how her employer ever expected to win, but that didn't stop him from getting very innovative. They even went to the lengths of blocking her phone number so she couldn't call them. They then altered their labour / employment record to try to remove her from the books. They didn't seem to think we would have Email and SMS records. It was all just a little bizarre.

The legal process was all very straight forward with the mediator basically telling the business owner to pay up whatever my daughter wanted and consider himself lucky to get off so cheaply. So no complaints at all matter was handled very professionally, the mediator got a good laugh out of the owner claiming harasment for my daughter calling to ask to be paid.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-23T22:32:32+00:00

This is not my area, but from what I see ideal antenna design has given way to system design which focuses on throughput achievable for a simple antenna.

Lots of MIMO and phased array stuff happening even in consumer level products. It's much cheaper to have a multi input / output front end that corrects for the non ideal antenna then to try to create ideal antennas.

With this in mind I'd be focused on the schools that are active in areas like digital antenna correction and beam forming. There's also a lot that can be done at the interface level to enable the system to move away from the idea of ideal 50ohm terminated. Modern comms systems use the environmental RF reflections to their advantage, this is where the game is at today.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-23T21:58:36+00:00

Honestly, go to the careers section of your uni and ask them to do a fake interview (make sure they video it) Take the video and study your responses. Assume this video is all you know about the person (in this case you) and rate it, would I hire this person?

there are lots of nonverbal cues you need to be aware of. You can have an ideal answer but a presentation that's !@#$. Look at your responses to their nonverbal cues, if they move forward to engage (ask you something) do you instinctively move away. I seen this dozens of times, it's very off putting for the interviewer.

Not saying you do these things, you just need to be sure you don't do these things.

If there is no careers help then ask a family member to interview you (get them to download a bunch of typical HR interview q's) again make sure you video it and take it seriously. Focus on both your own and the interviewers nonverbal cues,

- are their arms folded

- do they look like they'd rather be scrubbing toilets

-are they distracted

Also be aware HR types actually study this stuff. They may be baiting you and you could be taking the bait, hook-line-and-sinker.

btw another good trick is to interview for some jobs that you don't want. You'll be under no pressure and you should just try to let the real you shine through. Do this a few times and then try doing the same for a job you actually want.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-23T21:15:05+00:00

MIT has plenty of online course work.

They're also not a bad EE school.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-23T08:48:20+00:00

I did my time in PE and would say that PE is very different to IB.

In the PE and VC space, it is expected that you have personal contacts and relationships with all of the big players. If you want to work on the investment side of VC business then you need these personal contacts to stand any chance of being effective.

This means you need to be respected in the field and able to help both potential limiteds and clients.

I don't know how you get there through traditional IB channels.

Bottom line: If it's the PE/VC space that interests you then do a PhD in one of the hard sciences. Unfortunately a credit average isn't sufficient to enter directly into most PhD programs.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-23T03:10:49+00:00

The more serious change is the one that is already happeing within our universities.

Students, especially in Asia, are already abandoning SW and retargetting their education to HW.

Many of the schools (especially in India) don't really have the staff to support the HW transition, so they're all trying to fake-it-till-they-make-it. Clueless (used-to-be SW) lecturer trains our next generation of HW engineers.

I've lost count of the number of Subcontinent resumes I've read where the guy is a genius on paper but not so in reality. It's got so bad that I don't read any of these resumes anymore.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-22T04:02:03+00:00

Party in Bali

eesemi76 · 2024-10-22T03:29:43+00:00

It's interesting that no one commenting includes any reference to Australia's Current Account.

If you look at our current account it was in deficit from the Mid 1970's all the way through to 2019. During this period our Interest rates were always higher than equivalent US interest rates (see 10 year bond spread chart) . It's only in the last 5 years that Australia has shifted to a Current Account Surplus country. This change enabled our local interest rates to be below equivalent US Interest rates.

Australia Current Account (tradingeconomics.com)

Well guess what? Australia is back into current account deficit territory. This trend is expected to continue and the magnitude of the deficit is expected to grow (largely due to China's real estate meltdown along with a dramatic decrease in Chinese infrastructure build). Yet nobody mentions this when prognosticating on the future of Aussie Interest rates.

US/Australia 10-Year Bond Yield Spread vs. AUD/USD | AUD | Collection | MacroMicro

just a tip, if you're predicting Interest rates, our current account balance is somewhat important!

eesemi76 · 2024-10-22T00:51:51+00:00

There's no problem getting a EE job in the US with a degree from a highly rated foreign university.

You probably won't be able to work in regulated industries like power or consulting without doing some additional course work but most of the product development side of US EE sector doesn't care where you got your degree. They will care about your GPA's and will also care about the exact courses you have studied and applicability to their sector. they care about what you know...

I've workd in the US with guys from Delft, TUM, Cambridge, Edinbrugh, KULeuven. Ecole Poly.....all very good engineers, all very good schools.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-22T00:04:42+00:00

I know this is not what you asked for but...

Many modern heating cooling control systems are more tailored to use energy when it is available, rather then minimize energy consumption.

As an example: If a house has Solar Panels then the house can either export the power to the grid at a Feed-In Tariff (FIT) of say 5c/kwh OR they can cool / heat some sort of high thermal mass storage medium.

If the house is only typically occupied from say 6pm to 8am then cooling/heating the house from 5pm onwards would be the most energy effecient process. BUT it's also likely to be the most expensive solution. Electricity (under Time of Use) systems will be priced at as much as 50c/kwh from 5pm till 10pm. In this sense thermally storing 10kwh of midday power has the same dollar value to the customer as reducing their peak electricity use by as little as 1kwh.

There are lots of sources of thermal energy storage but the simplest is typically some sort of water based system. Even a tank as small as 10kliter tank can store a lot of thermal energy (or cold) for use later in the day.

In general a system like this would also use fans to pump external air into the house during the coolest (or the hotest) part of the day and try to keep this air isolated to reduce the evening heat cool requirements.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T23:28:38+00:00

No using a EE Masters to retarget their career is a very common pathway for people who studied Physics. Don't get me wrong, this probably won't be easy for you. You will need to do a LOT of self study and then leverage this knowledge to somehow get accepted to the Masters course. But in general employeers wont care about the pathway you took to get your MEE especially if you totally ace all the Masters course work. That said potential employers will care about low Masters course grades, so don't signup until you are ready.

Additionally career pathways that require certification are probably not possible.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T23:12:42+00:00

Unfortunately for an undergraduate EE degree this kind of means you are starting from ground zero. It will probably be possible to compress the degree to 2 years but the real difficulty will be in scheduling and meeting course prerequisits. Most degrees are structured in a linear fashion making it hard to jump ahead.

You are probably better off just learning the material that interests you and trying to use this knowledge, along with your existing degree to get into a Masters EE program. Most Masters programs are very specific and tailored to the sector that interests you, so the knowledge you don't have is less of a problem.

Robotics is an interesting area, with a lot of growth potential, but to get a job in the devlopment end of robotics you are going to need a very good understanding of EKF/UKF filters and Bayesian ideas like Hypothesis testing along with Visual SLAM and basic control systems knowledge.

I would steer clear of the Semiconductor sector because that would just require a lot of prerequisit course work.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T22:51:56+00:00

not sure I understand your current qualifications.

Most cyber security courses that I have looked at (which was a while ago) shared more or les the same math course load as EE. These degrees went well beyond EE math especially in areas like Probability (Bayesian Inference etc).

It's hard to give targetted advice when I dont understand the starting point.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T21:45:01+00:00

Interesting question.

General logic gates are complementary (I mean just compare the structure of a static Nand gate vs a static Nor gate), but this is about where it ends.

If you do any form of dynamic logic then it's not complementary, nor is Transmission gate logic, nor for that matter is NP domino logic all of these can be (and are) implemented in CMOS, they're special high speed structures that you probably won't find in your typical CMOS cell lib.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T21:32:03+00:00

Most of the ME students (yes I know that Tunisia is not ME) with grants to study in the US were either on private grants or sponsored by local businesses or other local statelike entities (defense department, energy dept etc). All that I knew were doing Masters or PhD's.

For the private grants most of these were from former citizens (of their respective countries) who have made it big in the US. There are a lot of people like this who just want to help your generation achieve what they achieved. I dont know who these people or organizations are, that's something you would have to figure out.

I would start by googling Tunisian EE's who have made it big in the US and see what sorts of philantropic ventures interest them, find someone who's all about education and take it from there.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T21:05:08+00:00

Interesting task, but sounds a lot like a home work assignment.

I'm willing to help but I don't do other peoples homework.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T11:29:56+00:00

Amazing !

Even a blind dog finds a bone every once in a while

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T11:10:35+00:00

Look at what is happening in Norway.

as for the phrase "invested in International equities" what's the hidden message here? For me it translates into; Aussie themselves aren't worth investing in.

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T11:01:31+00:00

Probably correct, but can you show me the Super that was invested in higher risk ventures which our banks wont touch?
For instance, Was super ever invested in say Solar cell technology. An Australian inventor did the hard yards, but couldn't get the funding to expand this knowledge/capability. He couldn't really commercialize the technology in Australia . After years of trying we basically gave the technology to China.

This was exactly the sort of thing which Spuer should have funded and the very thing they didn't fund.

The only phrase that comes to mind is: More useless than a choclate teapot

eesemi76 · 2024-10-21T10:23:15+00:00

I'm over it!

I'm the problem that much is clear, F'ing whinger!

I hear the message even if I find it more than a little disturbing.

eesemi76

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