[geeks] How old am I and where do I come from...

[Dave McGuire]

On July 16, Michael A. Turner wrote:
>  > > in St. Petersburg, Florida with my cat Ophelia.  I work in my home
> > > lab, head of engineering for Tampa, FL startup QYX Learning,
> > > Inc. (http://www.qyx.com), doing embedded systems 
> > development for the
> > > K-12 education automation industry.  Single and hating it.
> > 
> > Woah.   What happened to the video survailence stuff.  I didn't
> > realize that you current work was completely different.
> > 
> > Education though.  That's a pretty interesting field to be in.
> > Instead of only hacking computers, one also gets to try hacking young
> > minds.  I'm guessing that you are doing the hardware though.
> 
> 	Education sucks as a field really. A lot of the tech "directors" are
> teachers that they had to get out of the classroom 5 or 6 years ago so they
> made them manage the computers. They are, for the most part, less than
> clueless. Working with them is like combining the worst parts of a renegade
> start-up company and a government bureaucracy. They have wild ideas that
> they want input on NOW but then can't get the funding for it for months. Ug.

  Well I guess I'm lucky that I'm not really in the education field per
se. ;) Our clients are assessment testing companies and book
publishers, not schools.

      -Dave

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