Keep it for two more years and it will be ULEZ exemptMy land rover is still doing daily driving duties at 38 years old.
I should retire it as some point ..
They do say that B.S. baffles brains.In my current job I initially worked for a manager (chief operations officer) who came from a media background, and he gave me SUCH a hard time in the interview that I went to pieces that evening, questioning my life decisions! Total head-screw.
Anyway he told me "see me, I could talk my way into any job that I wanted"
I believed him. 100%. After all, he was COO of a engineering company on a salary 4x bigger than mine, despite not having the slightest clue or interest in anything engineering related!!!
He got bored and left 6 months after I started, he'd been there 2-3 years. Talked his way into a director position in the hotels/hospitality industry.
I like that, keeps it simple, understandable, and easy to communicate to others.He also had an interesting concept that I liked: describe a problem to him in just one sentence. It's simple reduction when too many people try to address many issues at once and get nowhere. Concentrate on the important things, and use English, not jargon.
The people that hate the idea of continuous development and learning never seem to get all that far, and stay grumpy
I remember in the late 80's being introduced to the latest "vunder kid" at a combined sales/service meeting. He then proceeded to implement yet another dealer survey of which we were heartily sick , as were the dealers. It was going to be a 2 year survey and I asked another service guy how many had we had in the previous 20 years." lost count and anyway nothing useful ever came out of one." The V.K.then assured us it would go the whole 2 years and would have a good and useful outcome . To which my actual words were " Michael you won't be here in 2 years ". Deep intake of breath all round. Sure enough a year later he had decamped to yet another victim. We had just ignored the whole thing .Even out line manager never mentioned it.Good leaders are good leaders, generally they don’t “need” to know the intricate details of how things work, rather they make the big strategic decisions.
What can be bad is where people come in and make wholesale changes with no understanding of the business or the impacts it will have - I saw this at a printing company I used to work for as a contractor where they had an md who came from the car industry, and brought with him a lot of senior management.
He tried to implement practices which he knew from the car industry, not many of which worked in a very different industry, caused chaos and left after 12 months - at which point they employed someone who reinstated the processes that worked and steadied the ship, so to speak.
That's the way we try to do them as well.I've always refused to ask that sort of question, even when HR push it. I argue that it gives an advantage to those who have had interview training or are naturally gifted at interviews, whereas we want to give an advantage to those who can design electronics. My questions (apart from those where I'm interested in projects they've done) are mostly showing them a circuit diagram and asking them to analyse it in some way, or showing them a circuit diagram with a bit missing and asking them to design something to go in the gap. You can tell as much by how they approach the problem as you can by whether they produce a sensible answer.
My first interview for an electronics job, and in repair not design, the guy gave me a blank sheet of paper and said "draw me a bare bones schematic of a switch mode PSU, and explain how it works". I only knew as much about them as I'd picked up from hobby stuff at that point, but I must have made a reasonable attempt at it as I got the job He later told me quite a few applicants gave up and walked out at that point.