From my post in another thread:
Holy @#$%! His company makes medical lab and diagnostic instruments! The idea that rw might have done qualification or safety testing on some of their products appalls me! Those things need to collect their samples/data safely, they need to provide accurate information, and the things need to be electrically safe (to touch patients' internal tissues)! I hope the company caught and redid all those tests he F'ed up! People's lives depend on those instruments, in multiple ways!
His title is test technician, which pisses me off. He doesn't know electronics, and he can't troubleshoot circuitry to the component level. He plugs a sub-assembly or assembly into a test fixture and pushes the right buttons for the machine to perform the tests. He's a machine operator with a glorified title!
I encountered this kind of title inflation over 20 years ago when I was vetting resumes' and interviewing people for a technician position. It was a hands-on position testing and troubleshooting live circuitry. Something like 90% of the resumes' we received were glorified machine operators who didn't know the difference between a resistor, a diode, or a transistor (other than the shape and number of leads).
As for rw, his career path after becoming the best machine operator and report writer in the building is either to go to a JC (or De Vry, or ...) and actually learn electronics, electro-mechanical technology, or bio-chemistry or to move into supervision and a management path (which would swiftly lead to more college). A sighting of a squadron of porcine aviators seems more probable.
His degree in Film is useless where he lives, because film creation is still centered in Hollyweird (and will be for the foreseeable future). And if he moved to the Land of LA he would be bringing a Podunk U AA degree to a place crawling with people who earned a BA (or higher) at a university with one of the best (if not the best) media production programs in the US, USC. IOW, it's simpler to say his degree is a useless vanity/hobby degree, not the trail head of a career path. IMO, it's educational malpractice and fraud for a JC outside of areas with lots of video/film media to offer such degrees.