Hello everyone! After watching the EEVblog videos for some time now i noticed that there is a forum connected to those videos! yay! A forum full of other nerds like me, a dream comes true!
So I thought about introducing myself before posting "regular" posts, and thats what I'm gonna do now.
My name is Kai, I'm from germany and living in Frankfurt on Main.
I went to gymnasium, i guess in english its comparable to a high school, but didn't finish with a high school diploma (Abitur in german),
instead left the school after 12 years and started a job training as "Informationselektroniker für Geräte und Systemtechnik",
what would translate as something like an electronic technician specialised at devices and systems. In my oppinion this is a absolutely stupid thing to say,
so I would stick to the former name, which was just "electronic technician for radio and television".
I love electronics and I play around with that kind of stuff since I was ten years old (now im 25... time flies by..), motivated by my father who tought me nearly anything I know nowadays.
The job training worked out quite good, I finished it with a special award for the best grades on the apprenticeship diploma that year in whole germany.
Sadly my career didn't go on like that. I worked the next three years in three different companies for wages far below the average, always for a one year limited time.
When I got kicked out of my last job the same day my father died from a sudden heart attack at the age of 50, I fell into a really big hole which I couldn't leave completely behinde at all.
I lost the fun of playing around with electronics, lived my life, but didn't do anything that would carry me on.
I thought about how to go on, and after struggling with myself for a long time I decided to begin a study of elektronic engineering.
I hate studying, I'm more of a practical guy, so this will be tough for me. I have to face my problems because I want to leave all this behind and start again with my life, start again with my once so beloved hobbys, try to learn to "have fun again".
Besides that electronic thing I have some other hobbys, like working on and driving around with cars and bikes (I own an vintage mercedes firefighter truck, yay!), kerosene- and gas lamps, writing reports into my blog (link in signature if you want to have a look), trying to publish something on youtube but stop it at the last second over and over again, working with electron tubes and so on, which need some time too. So I hope to take my time again for myself, start again and get back to what I have been before. Daves videos, reading around here at the forums and looking around here insires me and gives me new energy, so I have to say a big thanks to everyone around here and hope to read from you guys in the next time!