Job Placement Service / Tech Support

[ScaleRobotics]

Ha ha! I found this 5 year old post ironic on two levels.

1. Darrel now works for Melabs
2. Darrel IS the answer to his own "New Wish".

When I went to school for Telephone Systems in the early '80s, they had a Job Placement department that got me a job doing Telephone Systems.

This later turned into a CableTV Lineman Job. But after an injury, I went to school for AutoCad. And, of course, this school had a Job Placement department that immeadiately got me a job doing CAD drawings.

Now, I've found this really cool thing that I want to do for a Job, a.k.a "PicBasic Pro programming", and I'm stuck ... Where's the's Job Placement department? .... Oh yeah, ... where's the school?<hr>So here's my PBP Wish.

With each purchase of PicBasic Pro, you get a FREE Job Placement with a company in your local area. Of course, you would have to pass their training program at the nearest "PicBasic Pro training center", of which they have several hundred, located worldwide.

But then, I guess you can ask for just about anything you want here, since it's unlikely that anyone from meLabs will ever see this post.

In Fact, I've never seen any posts at all in these forum's from an meLabs employee.

So, let's scratch the previous wish, and make a new one.<hr>New Wish ...

I wish, that the meLabs Tech Support Department would take an active role in this Forum, so we can get a REAL glimps at what's going on inside, instead of just what people have been able to figure out so far. Or thought they figured out, so far!

It doesn't have to be an Answer Every Question type thing. Just peruse the posts every now and then, and answer anything that intrests you. Just like the rest of us!

Oh Yeah!, They won't see that either. Arrrrggghhhh!

DT
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Disclaimer: This is the personal opinion of the user Darrel Taylor,
and should not be construde as the opinion of anyone else.
Including the owners of this bulletin board system.

[Ioannis]

So, be careful what you wish for,right?

Ioannis

[Darrel Taylor]

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

And I found the school.
But the Job Placement came first.

I've learned so much being around Charles and Jeff...
And answering the phones and emails all day are the exercises, quizzes and tests.

Unfortunately, when dealing with 15-20 people a day, I can't spend 4-5 hours troubleshooting individual problems like I used to. So now I can understand why they didn't participate in the forum very often.

Yes, be careful what you wish for.
Because years later, it just might come true.
And it might be better than you thought it would be.

Waking up in the morning wanting to go to work, is something I've never experienced before.

[Archangel]

Waking up in the morning wanting to go to work, is something I've never experienced before.

Me either ! You DESERVE A Job like that Darrel ! I am VERY HAPPY you got it. Kudos to M E Labs for making it available.
I cannot think of anyone more suited to helping people.

[Ioannis]

I cannot think of anyone more suited to helping people.

Double that.

Also noted that Darrel has moved from California?

Hope wether is good there too. Like my sunny place

Ioannis

[Heckler]

Hey Darrel,

Any chance that some of your excellent code modules, like instant interrupts, LCD bargraphs, etc. etc. etc., might show up in a new version of PBP any time soon?

I often wonder how long PBP can survive in this world of "arduiino" and C.
I have been programming in basic every since I got my IBM PCjr back in 1985... and really have no desire(time) to learn a new language. But I think PBP could benifit from some publicity. The more people that use PBP the more healthy it will be in terms of support and such.

I also think that it would be good to have some postings of PBP projects on places like hackaday.com, etc. to generate interest in this excellent PBP.

[Darrel Taylor]

Any chance that some of your excellent code modules, like instant interrupts, LCD bargraphs, etc. etc. etc., might show up in a new version of PBP any time soon?

There's a very good chance of that.
And there's a good chance a lot more will be added too.

I often wonder how long PBP can survive in this world of "arduiino" and C.

The Arduino is just a toy platform for newbs.
No self respecting company is going to develop their product with an Arduino.
Most of melabs customers are serious commercial businesses.
At least 90% of them are not hobbyists.

I've talked to people from NASA, GM, Army, Air Force, TSA, DOT, which are the government agencies I can mention, and literally hundreds of other companies that I can't mention. And I've only been here 6 months.

It's funny how many of them are using DT_INTS.
I had no idea.