I am a retired engineer. I started out my engineering career as a circuit
designer, designing control systems for large astronomical telescopes. Then
I moved onto test equipment design.
But, as a qualified, experienced,
and very successful engineer, like most engineers of around forty years ago,
I was ultimately obliged to to become an unqualified inexperienced and
untried manager if I wanted to continue up the ladder.
So I did.
I had a team of engineers working for me, and sometimes, being the most
experienced engineer, I would need to do some design work myself, or work
closely with an engineer on difficult projects. My non-technical colleagues,
who got into management by a different route would say:-
“There he goes, electron chasing again”
Hence the title of this site. I gradually drifted away from the technical side, then out of the engineering industry completely, then into retirement. And I have now drifted back into electron chasing, this time as a hobbyist.
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