Hello all.
I'm Jeroen from The Netherlands, 23 years old at this moment. Electronics was my main interest from when I was little, now I have made my (fairly passive) hobby into my work.
My daily job consists of repairing and testing products or just assembled PCB's. Occasionally, I build or help building test setups too. In short: I'm a test&repair operator/engineer.
My wish is to take place in a R&D department as a support technician for building test setups and such, thinking along with the development team without being completely responsible for a whole product and learning a lot in the process.
My schooling consists of a theoretical base, followed by an electronics study (Intermediate Vocational Training) for which I had to learn telecommunication techniques, transmission techniques, computer network management (Windows based) and lots of other stuff I do not know how to name in English. I graduated from it and have my diploma.
Software programming of chip programming (or on the computer, writing programs) is a nightmare for me. I just do not know where/how to start.
Same for my math skills, horrible (I'm not to keen on complex calculations)
This is what's keeping me from a higher level of education, unfortunately.
My hobby consists of repairing the occasional failure at home and building projects grabbed from the Internet from time to time. Also some minor modifications at various equipment.
I also learned to fabricate PCB's at school, but don't own any equipment to do so at home, something for the future I guess.
I stumbled upon the EEVBlog on Youtube a half year ago, watching and catching up since. I think Dave is great and probably was a nice colleague to have when at work.