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Talk about perks, my career had one of the best I can think of! I traveled in the course of business, delivering classes for my employer. I was a Senior Training Specialist for Motorola Solutions, and taught classes on a wide variety of subjects centered around 2-way radio communications. I knew that when the time arrived that I would retire, and I have. I've always said that if you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, get out! I can't handle the heat anymore. I was qualified to deliver approximately 32 different classes, but about half of those were 'Legacy' classes, and were not in demand anymore. My students were technicians, those who maintained, programmed, calibrated, and repaired large 2-way radio systems. Some of these systems are statewide, and use TCP-IP networking to allow sites to communicate with others. Some are small, traditional type radio sites. The size doesn't matter, in each case the systems must be kept operational at all times, since many of them are Public Safety Systems. So I traveled, sometimes frequently, 3-4 weeks in a row.... where have I been? Some of the places I've been (I can't list them all here, the list would be too long) are pretty interesting. 1. Hawaii - Four times, Oahu, Maui (twice), and the Big Island 2. BangkokThailand, twice 3. Frankfurt Germany, twice 4. Algiers, Algeria 5. Melbourne Australia 6. Bismarck North Dakota, Summer & Winter 7. Los Angeles, Too many times to count 8. Washington DC, Too many times to count 9. Seattle three or four times 10. Texas, all over the state 11. Florida, all over the state 12. New Mexico, HOME! Several times  Best Cultural And Regional Honorable Mention |
| Locale: Bloomington, Illinois Week of: 6/20/22 This week was a rare 'Resident' delivery of the course 'Fleetmapping'. A resident class is a class that allows open registration. What that means is that any customer can register for the class, and attend it. Resident classes are normally delivered in our Schaumburg or Fort Lauderdale faciltiy. When the pandemic hit, we delivered a lot of classes remotely (from home). It was early in the pandemic that I was asked to deliver this class, and have been doing that for 2 years now. I find I really enjoy this class, and I'm not sure why. This class was no different from my other fleetmapping deliveries, other than there was little discussion/questions from the students. That's somewhat normal in many virtual classes, but I usually get more participation in this class than other online deliveries. Not this week though. I think I've mentioned this before, but Fleetmapping is all about configuring the system (in particular, a server at the Core called the 'Provisioning Manager') and the radios to maximize their capabilities. Customers spend million of dollars on these systems, getting them configured correctly can be a challenge. That's where Fleetmapping comes in. Don't get me wrong though, this was a good class, everything went well. There just wasn't that many questions from the students. Maybe I don't ask enough questions myself to bring them out of their shells, who knows? In Closing I am home next week delivering Fleetmapping once more. This time it will be four hours/day for four days, instead of three hours/day for five days. This is a Federal customer, and I guess they get Friday 7/1 off. I don't, I will still be online in a Virtual classroom presenting a special presentation to any military members who are leaving the service soon and might want to work for Motorola. If they do, they will be Interns until their enlistment is up, then get hired as a Field Tech. If I was 20 years younger, I'd love to do that. Then again, maybe not, I love teaching too much. Til next time, be good to yourselves and those you love, and WRITE!  Jim Dorrell |
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I'd order it now, but I don't want to chance having it delivered while we're gone, so I'll wait. I did bookmark the page so I can get to it easily. Cross your fingers everyone!
Non-interchangeable parts - now there's a surprise. There are times you can't interchange parts for two editions of the exact same car that vary "only" by model year.