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Article #159Re: People Who've left High Tech
From: Dave Taylor
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 18:06
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 18:06
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This article is from well!mandel@hplabs.HP.COM (Thomas F. Mandel)
and was received on Mon Sep 22 06:25:52 1986
One of the likely reasons for such a short half-life (~5 years)
among EE's may well be the extremely rapid rate of change in the
knowledge base for this profession. I've heard some people suggest
that it takes an enormous amount of effort to remain current, and
perhaps a good number of EE's get exhausted doing so.
Another reason may be the sheer stress of a profession at the
leading edge of technological change. You can't play the "soul
of a new machine" game very long and expect to stay healthy (on the
average).
In other words, exhaustion -- intellectual or psychological -- may be
a factor for many early dropouts or career-changers.
Tom Mandel
ARPA: mandel@sri-kl.arpa
UUCP: {ptsfa,hplabs,lll-crg,hoptoad,apple}!well!mandel
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