Beginner's job

Here's a nice job I found on Control Engineering, pretty much the same career I'm studying, I like everything related to automation and control so that's why I'd chose this job as my first one.
Here's some of the duties I would have to fulfill:
In the facility, the Technician will perform assembly, integration, factory testing, and maintenance/repairs on equipment/systems within his or her area of expertise in accordance with OES standards and procedures and in accordance with OII Safety Standards.
-Perform field installation, test/debug, and repair of equipment/systems within his/her area of expertise as directed by the Technical Supervisor, Field Engineer or a Senior Technician.
-The Technician is responsible for applying the necessary skills to ensure safe, efficient conduct of the work under the Technician’s cognizance.
-Travel on short notice (as little as twelve hours) world-wide, is required with lengthy durations of stay (months) at remote destinations.
-The Technician must be qualified physically to perform strenuous manual work in heavy construction environments including performing work on ladders and in very confined spaces.

Resume

78 Street, 9b Av.
Venezuela, Zulia State.
(0261)-7567384
OBJETIVE
Obtain a position at XXX company where I can improve my professional skills.

EDUCATION
-University: 2007 – To date: Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin (URBE).
Faculty of Electronic Engineering. School of Engineering. Opting for the title of: Electronic Engineer, currently studying: 8th trimistre.
-High school: 1995-2006 - Unidad Educativa Colegio Alemán de Maracaibo. Bachelor of Science Degree.

SKILLS
- Team worker.
- Fast thinking
- Creative.
- Great ideas to solve problems.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office

PERSONAL REFERENCES
David Gutierrez. – Electrical Engineer. Phone number: (0412) – 6445374
Jack Bauer. - Computer Analist . Phone number: (0412) – 3433222

Ted talks

TED talks are a series of lectures held anually about a great variety of subjects, The lectures, also called TED Talks, cover a broad set of topics including science, arts and design, politics, education, culture, business, global issues, technology and development, and entertainment. Speakers have included such people as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Nobel laureates James D. Watson, Murray Gell-Mann, and Al Gore, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Billy Graham.

Leadership

For me, in raw words, a leader is someone capable of getting himself and his team/colleagues towards their established goals. Speaking more into it, a good leader is someone capable of listening and understanding his "team", doing things according to his fellows needs. YEAH.

Interview

I recently interviewed fellow engineer Alexander Barrios, here are some of his answers.

1. Could you please define Engineering in your own words?
Engineering is the branch of science that deals with math and logic problems.

2. What influenced you to pursue Electronics engineering, industrial ingeneering, computer science engineering or informatics engineering?
I pursued Electronic Engineering because i think technology and electronics is the future of our world, and in order to be valuable in that future, I studied electronics.

3. Could you please describe the educational process required to become an Engineer?
You've got to study math and all that logic kind of subjects very hard, and above all, you've got to like it.

4. What are the skills you need to be a good engineer?
To be a quick thinker, to like logical puzzles, and to like your area of expertise.

5. What job considerations were you looking for after you completed your education?
I was looking for a computer and network manager in a company, and I got it.

6. What's something of your school life that you enjoy the most?
I enjoyed lab works very much.

7. From your perspective, what is the most difficult part of being an engineering student?
The hours and hours you dedicate to practice and practice, you need a lot of it if you plan to get through the career.

8. What are your plans for the future?
I'm thinking about studying another career, electrical engineering maybe.

9. Point out your most personally gratifying moment in Engineering school.
When I presented my thesis and got a 20 in it.

10. Why would you recommend Engineering as a career?
Because if you're good at it, you'll have a good chance to get a nice job and people will respect you for it.

Second Life

I recently created an account on second life, my avatar's name is Rick Peliatropis, you can see him on the right's picture.
My first experience with the software was fun, I was just thrown into some kind of beginners island with a lot of help icons everywhere, so I just started to walk around and talk to some people, everyone in that island was a beginner like me so I couldn't get much help on how to handle myself in this world.
After a few minutes walking, running and flying around the island, I managed to teleport to a different location, it was some kind of beach house completely crowded, the software became really slow and so I logged out of second life.

The Golden Arrow

The Golden Arrow is a term used to define what has become a way of life to most American citizens. At first sight, it consist on the shopping activity, on how American people shop because of a trend, because of how easy it is to get stuff for a really cheap price, but this is only a part of it. By looking at the big picture, the Golden Arrow is about consumerism, it is about keeping the cycle of manufacturing low quality products, make people buy it, dispose of it and then buy again, the main goal of this system is to keep people shopping and shopping by different means and to keep fabricating and fabricating products to sell.