hope for our future!! HOPE!! our young people.

[vash]

I just got done interviewing for our summer interns. four of the brightest kids I have ever talked to.

every one of them would make a better public speaker than myself. solid nerves of steel. some great return questions, comments from these kids. one of them was a freshman.

I am quite blown away. I think my boss has a difficult decision to make. I picked my two.

[PorscheGAL]

So glad you were able to find some candidates and smart. Double goodness.

[smadsen]

We've got several high schoolers in the neighborhood. All pretty good kids. The kind of kids who say hello & wave. Bring in the neighbors trash cans just because.

The one ubiquitous characteristic is they all come from good homes with good parents. All!

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by smadsen

The one ubiquitous characteristic is they all come from good homes with good parents. All!

And that's a fact!

[black73]

Was Hope lost? I rarely meet a young person that does not impress me.

[PorscheGAL]

Originally Posted by black73

Was Hope lost? I rarely meet a young person that does not impress me.

This is an update to an earlier post where he discussed having a hard time finding anyone to apply.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Has there ever been a time in which the future isn’t DOOMED by those damn young whipper snappers and their rock and roll music? I know and have worked with a bunch of bright young people, I think the future is bright!

[GH85Carrera]

I get very little contact with whippersnappers of today. Most of my friends and contacts are 40 to 80.

I see my wife's grand nephews. (Dang that sounds weird) and one of them will be graduating from college in a year, and he will have a degree in business. He has long asked questions of people that he sees as successful, and asked how they got to where they are. He asked intelligent questions and received good answers. He is starting his business with partners.

One other great nephew is delving into computers and programming and wants to get into electronic design. My suggestion was to learn and work towards an electronic engineer degree. He may never be a billionaire, but it just takes that one special design. Worst case, go work for Intel or the other chip makers.

[red-beard]

When we had interns, I'd say 50% of them were worth the effort. Several of those good ones were eventually asked back to be full time employees.

But we had some DUMB and some quirky ones.

One ran out of disk space on his computer (30MB, around 1994). So he deleted the Windows directory since he didn't use any of those files.

Another would freak out anytime we gave him work. ("That's way too much pressure, man!").

One of the excellent ones was using an older PC with an older 12" monitor. He went to my desk and said his computer was acting up. I look at it and the screen was losing sync every 10-15 seconds and buzzing when it did. Slowly, it happened more. And finally, it went continuous and smoke started coming out of the monitor! First time I had a computer actually catch on fire!

As a field engineer, I had two interns (full engineers, but interns as FE's). One was nuts. He would start off like: "Dude, have you ever made monster bikes? Like take a little wheel and put it on a 10 speed?" And then he demonstrated rolling around on the short wheel. I knew he was going to be a GREAT field engineer.

The other intern? He came to me one day and said he has a flat tire. Except he was from Rhode Island and it was more like "I gotta a flat tie-ah". So I said he should take it down to Sears and have them path it. And then I thought for a second, he had a rental car. I said to call the rental company and have them switch out the vehicle.

"No man! It's my bicycle!"

"Uh. Go down to K-Mart and get a new tube?"

"OK. I've never changed a tie-ah. Is it hard?"

This is a man, 22 years old with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering, working on Gas Turbines, Steam Turbines and generator sets.