Desire to continue with Do-More PLCs

[Garyhlucas]

When I started my job 6 years ago and began with a clean sheet wastewater plant design I joyously abandoned AB. It has worked fabulously, greatly reducing hardware, software and support costs over my previous job with AB.

I designed every one of the company?s products and along the way I hired a slacker who turned out to be very poor at his job and I wanted to fire him. Unfortunately we have argued and while he has always lost the argument he has the bosses ear. He took a text from me completely out of context and forwarded to my boss, who jumped all over me. I made a huge mistake in losing my temper with my boss and fired.

So if anyone working with AD products needs someone with an enormous skillset please contact me. I can pretty much build anything.

Gary H. Lucas gary.lucas@verizon.net

Currently mentoring a FIRST Robotics team, and building them a CNC Router with a DoMore as a co-processor to get lots of added functionality and to teach the students PLC programming!

[franji1]

Just sent a PM

[Controls Guy]

I designed every one of the company?s products and along the way I hired a slacker who turned out to be very poor at his job and I wanted to fire him. Unfortunately we have argued and while he has always lost the argument he has the bosses ear. He took a text from me completely out of context and forwarded to my boss, who jumped all over me. I made a huge mistake in losing my temper with my boss and fired.

Not that losing a job is ever stress-free, but from reading how that outfit operates (keeping a no-talent slacker around and listening to his kvetching, setting hard budgets on projects that don't have a road map, etc.), I suspect you're about to get a big upgrade in stress level and job satisfaction.  Likely money too.

[ATU]

You may not recognize it now, but they may have done you a favor. There is plenty of work out there especially if you have more than a few years experience.

[Garyhlucas]

The tough part is 45 years ago I didn?t finish my engineering degree and you wouldn?t think it matters but it still does.  I was making $100K so I am likely to take a substantial pay cut, and have to work my way back up.  One good thing is I have royalties coming from everything the company makes for the next 2 years. Should be about $40k this year and more next year. So I hope they well for at least that long!

[ATU]

Have you thought about doing contract work? Pick your jobs, your own hours, your price, less BS. Sounds like you have a buffer, possible customer base and it opens up the opportunity to work for your previous company if that materializes.  Your customers pay you to do the work, not the degree. Knock on some doors, ask vendors.  It can be an effort to keep work coming, insurance is expensive, but it can work well going into retirement. Its worked well for me for 20 years.

[Garyhlucas]

 Not a chance I?d do contract work. Already got sued for a personal injury on something I built. Except I didn?t build it, it was a poorly built copy and it only cost me $15k to prove I wasn?t at fault!