It’s always interesting to see where the thread of a topic goes. This one has been a lot of fun. In keeping with a “good home” theme, I remember a designer at Tek who had a unique career objective. Amid one of our annual layoffs, he told me that he was not distressed because his goal was to work on projects in every department that produces instruments that he wants at home. He was not a product-line zealot or afraid to switch jobs and he didn’t want to ascend into a targeted position such as a manager. He knew that each project produced “non-serviceable” prototypes that most likely would go to a good home; his! When we last spoke, he said that he had scopes and TM500/5000 stuff. Now he needed a spectrum analyzer; so, off he went to Tek’s FDI (frequency domain instrument division).
