Professional or Tradesman?

In the last few days there has been some debate as to if people should go to Uni or get a trade. I went to Uni, and did a degree in Electrical Engineering. And I loved it mostly. There were some courses that were not fun, but I got through them all. I should say that the 2nd half of the course was more fun than the first. I did need to actually do work at Uni too…

Anyway, when I was leaving Pacific Power the training budget was opened up. They allowed us to do any training courses within reason. Do I did a telecommunications cabling course. It was something I was interested in and it was practical. And it was fun. Then when I left Pacific Power they paid up to $5,000 for training. So I turned the cabling course into a Cerificate III in Telecommunications Cabling. That actually makes me a tradesman as well as a professional engineer.

Power Plays

There is an article in the SMH about how Delta Electricity is looking at spending about $2b expanding their Mt Piper Power Station near Lithgow. I think this is quite interesting since I used to work at Wallerawang Power Station just near Mt Piper, and I used to support the people who were actually building the power stations. I also worked at Mt Piper’s sister station in the Hunter Valley.

The problem that Delta Electricity has, apart from having little money in the bank, is that they lack the significant engineering resources to build the station. In the past the Power Plant Engineering part of Pacific Power would have done the work. But that was then and this is now, and Pacific Power has been shut down.

Music:

CD-ROM and DVD

It is great having my DVD and CD-ROM working again. I missed having access to it. It was a real pain not having it work. If I was going away and wanted to watch DVD’s as well as have my main computer with email I needed to take two laptops. That got hard to do. Now I will only need to take the one laptop. My back will thank me.