On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:31:45 -0500, "J.Kahn"
wrote:

Lou wrote:
Has anyone seen the show "How It's Made"? It's on the Discovery
Channel. They had a segment on Diamond Aircraft.
It was quite interesting to show the fiberglass and carbon sections
being made and then assembled. They also showed the engine install
and some avionics. Unfortunatly it was extremly short. Now I know I've
been doing it wrong. They just proved it only takes about 8 minutes to
build a plane.
Lou


I know several people who've gone to work at Diamond in London, Ontario
and moved on after a while. It has a rep as a tough place to work with
a fairly high turnover. They push their engineering staff really hard.
50-60 hour weeks with no overtime during on the Djet development program.

Typically, degreed positions don't pay overtime.
I worked for 26 years in instrumentation, quite, earned a Bachelors
degree in Computer Science and was never paid overtime again. OTOH the
wages were supposed to make up for it.

At the end of nearly 7 years I retired. The company paid me for about
90 days of unused vacation. During those 7 years a typical week was
about 60 hours and I took a total of 3 days off except for my last
work week which was spent at Oshkosh, so I retired during the middle
of the 96 fly-in. (working on computers in the homebuilders center)

On the other hand there is a great employee flying club where you can
rent the company products cheap.


John
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com