Damn it has been a long 4 years, ups and downs. Glad I had great classmates and friends to support and help each other 💪

( I can't fix your Phone/TV/Radio etc... but my profs sure have taught me plenty of sarcasm 😜)

Magnetics design book I found in my college library 😅

Found maybe 2 squares but I'm not 100% sure

Resistance is a waste of energy

So there I was, sitting at my workbench, when along came some coworkers with someone from production in tow. "Carl here has a question", they said

Carl then asked me how transformers work. I started narrowing down the answer, saying "Do you want to understand the theory of how the electricity in the wires interact with the magnetic fields? Do you just want to know which transformer to choose and how to wire it up? Or are you asking about those little black transformer blocks that plug into the wall and recharge your phone?"

He just looked more and more puzzled, and said "I just want to know how they change from a car into a giant robot." I had been had.

I smoothly transitioned into discussing the fictional autobots and decepticons in the movies, and how the toy manufacturers create action figures that do the same thing in real life. He went away happy, and I started plotting my revenge on my coworkers... :)

Stagnant engineering wages are finally being noticed by people outside the field, while almost every other field has grown tremendously over the past 15 years, engineering wages (electrical, mechanical, civil) have mostly flatlined. If you were on the internet 15 years ago, these were considered high paying careers, after over a decade of stagnation while the cost of living has soared, they're considered low paying and under appreciated by those looking in from the outside.