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Comment Trade job (Score 1) 164

Worthless dime a dozen "college degrees", or you can get a real trade job and make more money. After WW2, everyone was told you can't get anywhere without a college degree. The college "industry" churned them out by the millions. The law of supply & demand takes over. More college degrees than jobs available means the wages can be suppressed. Not to mention a LOT of college graduates that I've run into seem to have LESS of an IQ & common sense than those of the 40's to 70's.

Comment Wave soldering, Texas Instruments 1980 (Score 2) 36

I worked at TI in Houston in 1980. My job was to test/repair boards that came from the line that put them together. On a break, I watched the machine put the parts in the board, then hit the wave solder machine (that was cool to watch!). After that, it went to a line of ladies that would solder the wires for connectors etc. THEN the boards would come to us. First step was to check the resistance between the board ground (12 v supply for the board), and the digital ground. If it was less than 40meg ohm, it had to be fixed. Usually it was the left over/burned rosin/flux. Washing that off (we used I think it was Carbon tetrachloride or similar) usually fixed it.

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