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by maguirre 4076 days ago
Career: Electrical Engineer/Embedded software development

My father. We grew up extremely poor in the midst of a civil war and he made extra income by fixing TVs and other electronics. I remember watching him measure voltages with his "old school" analog multimeter and watching the glow of the vacuum tubes and that heat and smell that emanated from those TVs. Watching him work with electronics sparked my interest from a very early age and led me to my career path