avdude
My past experience was most helpful in this thread. I started in electronics in the Navy the first two and a half years going to school 8-12 hours a day the next three and a half years I spent working on everything from crypto eqpt to shipboard cable systemsn and going to more school. After that I worked for a test equipment manufacturer, for a total of 7 years, as a technician then as a component engineer while taking engineering classes. Before starting my business I worked for 4 years in my brothers business as a (beleve it or not) certified sprinkler system designer. I missed the electronics so I am back.