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DavidCampen
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I have been growing a few orchids at a time for the past 30 years. Just recently I converted a patio into an enclosed solarium to use for orchid growing so now I have about 150 plants, primarily species and primarily laeliinae and catasetinae but I also have half a dozen paphiopedilums. It has been a bit over 2 years now since a completed sufficiently to keep orchids there so the majority of my plants are just now reaching blooming size.
I earn a living working as an electrical (computer) engineer for an electrical utility. What I really liked doing was chemistry, particularly bench scale organic synthesis and I spent a year working as a technician at a company that made organic peroxides and another 5 years working at an oil company chemical research laboratory. But even back then in the 70s I could see the writing on the wall that jobs doing that type of work were becoming scarce and that soon in the US the primary work for a chemist would be in analytical chemistry feeding samples into a machine. I couldn't see spending the rest of my working career feeding samples to a machine so I decided to get a degree in electrical (actually computer) engineering so that I could spend my days sitting at a desk drinking coffee and creating instructions for the machines.
I earn a living working as an electrical (computer) engineer for an electrical utility. What I really liked doing was chemistry, particularly bench scale organic synthesis and I spent a year working as a technician at a company that made organic peroxides and another 5 years working at an oil company chemical research laboratory. But even back then in the 70s I could see the writing on the wall that jobs doing that type of work were becoming scarce and that soon in the US the primary work for a chemist would be in analytical chemistry feeding samples into a machine. I couldn't see spending the rest of my working career feeding samples to a machine so I decided to get a degree in electrical (actually computer) engineering so that I could spend my days sitting at a desk drinking coffee and creating instructions for the machines.
