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troyunrau@lemmy.ca â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Four years ago, I was bored and talking to a friend of mine, joking about starting a scientific equipment business in a small niche (geophysics) where there was effectively only one competitor in our national market. Easy to disrupt. To my surprise, he said yes and we went all in. Still just the two of us, but I guess I didnât have to apply for that job, just have a fortuitous connection. Now I do the science parts and he does the business parts and it works great! Probably we will hire this year though, and itâs very likely that LinkedIn will be the place we advertise.
The last tool I used? Does email count? ;) Ground Penetrating Radar.
porl@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
My old job was servicing niche scientific equipment. Glad to see you saw that opportunity - there are a lot of shitty products out there selling for five or six figures, and often running technology multiple decades out of date.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I need to hire a service technician this year. Someone with soldering skills, most likely. What skills did you use to get your prior job? What were you taught on the job? Pure curiosity.
porl@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Mostly on the job learning. Had an IT background and basic electronics skills including crude soldering at the time, but mostly I was just good at troubleshooting and thinking through problems. Every machine was very specialised so it was hard to get much info and a lot of problems were unique to that machine for that user with that sample in that conditionâŚ
troyunrau@lemmy.ca â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yeah, that sounds about right. Did they run you through some soldering training kits or something, or were you just thrown at the problem to âlearn by doingâ?
Also, how was the pay relative to what you could have gotten had you focused on the IT background instead?
Iâm contemplating trying to hire for an automotive technician skillset â someone that has a background doing things like alarms and custom radio installs, because there is such a nice skillset overlap. Hiring from IT might work, but I donât think I can meet pay and progression expectations. But the IT guys probably appreciate the science aspect more, on average.