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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: RayB on June 01, 2009, 10:23:43 pm ---Here's the thing. You THINK you only have a few months of crunch, until the end nears and it becomes more and more obvious that the schedule is shot and it won't happen. So then you guys are still "crunching" past that point for months, maybe even stretching into a year or more.
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Truth.



--- Quote ---I also laugh at your "fairly standard 40-50 hour work week". You do realize fairly standard is 35-40 hrs.  
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I have worked in software dev for companies as large as Cisco and as small as 30 people.  Standard in this field is anywhere from 40-50. 



--- Quote ---Think about this, if you make $50,000 a yr, working 35 hrs a week, it's like $27.47/hr.  Whereas working 50 hrs per week, you're making $19.23 /hr.
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Actually, a salaried person counts on the company's books for about (salary + 25-45% depending on benefits).  Even just a person carrying a family health plan is often making $1000+/month more than is in their check.  Throw in 401k match, various company paid insurance coverages, smaller services available to the employee (used or not), tuition reimbursements/others, and that person is compensated with a good amount more than what they put down on their taxes.  The further up the chain you go the higher that additional amount becomes.  Those things have to be included in any hourly rate conversion.  It is defintiely not as simple as salary / hours worked.


HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 02, 2009, 09:38:42 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on June 02, 2009, 07:34:38 am ---Mostly, I'm a computer geek.  I model turbofan engines based on their thermo qualities, and then simulate their operation across the flight envelope, and look for potential problems.

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Please oh please don't tell me you work on "space shuttle landing simulators".  I have met 3 people from three different states that all claim they work on that.



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Lol, no.  Commercial business jet engines.  Around ~7,000 lbs thrust.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on June 02, 2009, 09:41:35 am ---Lol, no.  Commercial business jet engines.  Around ~7,000 lbs thrust.

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GE?  There's a plant locally that has been making those for quite some time.  I believe they aren't military.

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 02, 2009, 09:44:13 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on June 02, 2009, 09:41:35 am ---Lol, no.  Commercial business jet engines.  Around ~7,000 lbs thrust.

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GE?  There's a plant locally that has been making those for quite some time.  I believe they aren't military.

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Nope, Honeywell

Samstag:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 02, 2009, 09:38:42 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on June 02, 2009, 07:34:38 am ---Mostly, I'm a computer geek.  I model turbofan engines based on their thermo qualities, and then simulate their operation across the flight envelope, and look for potential problems.

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Please oh please don't tell me you work on "space shuttle landing simulators".  I have met 3 people from three different states that all claim they work on that.



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I work on a Gulfstream II sim that was once used to train a shuttle pilot.  Does that count?  NASA converted a G2 so half the cockpit was instrumented like the shuttle.  He had to get a G2 type rating first and got it in my sim.  Bonus trivia:  John Travolta comes in (usually) once a year to get recertified on the same sim.

I've worked with a guy who worked on a shuttle takeoff sim, for reals.

I guess I'm an aerospace engineer.  My title is Senior Embedded Systems Engineer but I'm more of a general hardware/software flight sim troubleshooter.

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