From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m17bsgstvh.fsf@void.com...   
      
   "I cannot much help someone who has no ability to navigate the topic   
   they come to me with".   
      
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   The professors told us that was the essence of a BS in Chemistry; we didn't   
   yet know the answers but we could understand the explanations of them when   
   we found jobs. They assumed we would continue to advanced degrees, however   
   the grad school draft deferment soon ended and that route closed for me,   
   then the new EPA nailed the coffin lid shut.   
      
   When the Army saw my aptitude test scores they offered me their longest and   
   most difficult invitation-only electronics school, on Bletchley stuff, which   
   provided a good start on a new career. I took night classes in computer   
   hardware and software but learned it mostly by studying the data sheets for   
   new devices, which went beyond what anyone had learned in school.   
      
   I think I'm in the same place in 3D CAD. I'm learning the types of   
   operations that create and manipulate shapes faster than how to navigate the   
   menus to employ them. With my data-limited cell phone Internet plan (<20%   
   the cost of Cable) I can't use a cloud-based system like this one anyway, I   
   hope what I've learned will help me transfer to a program fully resident on   
   a laptop.   
      
   I'm unsure if it's a step up to make in plastic what I now do in steel.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)