What does everyone do for a living ?

[mcgee9t2]

@ smitty- emm I'm doing the nvq at work (foster wheeler) and then the HNC is a teeside HNC but ran at middlesbourgh college. 
In your hnc do you do PLCs too? That lecture makes me feel scuisidal!

[thatwillis]

I do special effects.....
 
Need somethiing blowing up...  willissfx.wordpress.com

A day at Dunsfold aerodrome..... not a bad day to say the least.

[AlanD]

^ What a cool job

[smitty12]

@ smitty- emm I'm doing the nvq at work (foster wheeler) and then the HNC is a teeside HNC but ran at middlesbourgh college. 
In your hnc do you do PLCs too? That lecture makes me feel scuisidal!

My first day was yesterday lol,
what is PLC?

and what NVQ are you doing? I've still not decided which one to go for  theres so many differet typres and sub units...
Think i want a maintence one but dont know if electrical would be better 

[mcgee9t2]

Plc's are programable logic controllers. Basically like a small small computer (without screens or mouse ect thought) and you program them so that they react different ways according to different inputs or outputs. A loose way to describe it is a big IC chip (the type you find in circuit boards) that you can program and reprogram and reprogram over and over again, hold a lot more memory and can be used for a lot more things.
Really horible lesson because we spend most of our time programing them when not one person on the course has to program plc's as part of there job. i dont even need to know anything about PLC's for my job, if we need a PLC puting in we get a contracted companie to decide the PLC suitable and program it.


The course I do is 'BTEC L4 HNC electrical/electronic engineering'
http://www.mbro.ac.uk/coursesearch/coursedisplay.aspx?CourseInformationID=2764

[AlanD]

^ very similar to what I do chaps. Im a BMS Controls engineer.

[Khare]

I do special effects.....
 
Need somethiing blowing up...  willissfx.wordpress.com

A day at Dunsfold aerodrome..... not a bad day to say the least.

Need any helpers? 

[2001gti4]

I'm yet another IT bloke; helping to sell storage solutions, training field engineers on how to fix them and taking calls on issues the field engineers can't handle. Pays the bills and with a mk4 and a Fireblade there's always plenty of those!

[thatwillis]

Need any helpers? 

^ What a cool job

Haha I am the trainee on that job i actually got to a lot of wiring up and rigging which was cool but I'm going up in the world so its s'all good  everything from blowing stuff up to covering a garden in snow....(what i did at the weekend) freelance so its hard work get the work when when you do its great but I'm not complaining =].

[simonpolly]

Plc's are programable logic controllers. Basically like a small small computer (without screens or mouse ect thought) and you program them so that they react different ways according to different inputs or outputs. A loose way to describe it is a big IC chip (the type you find in circuit boards) that you can program and reprogram and reprogram over and over again, hold a lot more memory and can be used for a lot more things.
Really horible lesson because we spend most of our time programing them when not one person on the course has to program plc's as part of there job. i dont even need to know anything about PLC's for my job, if we need a PLC puting in we get a contracted companie to decide the PLC suitable and program it.


The course I do is 'BTEC L4 HNC electrical/electronic engineering'
http://www.mbro.ac.uk/coursesearch/coursedisplay.aspx?CourseInformationID=2764

ladder diagrams ,half adders, full adders brings back fond sleepy memories nand and or nor xor zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz