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Fairly big news for me: I'm making a big move, taking my family to live in Singapore. I've been fortunate enough to walk straight out of my honours year at uni into a job as an application engineer in the asia pacific region (dream job).
The job is with Vision Research who are the primary manufacturers of high speed video cameras around the world. My position is to give pre and post sales support and training to clients and support for major events.
What this means in reality is that I could be on the ground at a rocket launch on standby in case one of the 25 cameras has a software or any other glitch and it's my job to fix it on the spot. I'll most likely be at the F1 for similar reasons. I'll also be working with universities in various situations where the operators may be physicists without photographic knowledge - it'll then be my job to advise on the right lighting to use and where to put it. So plenty of fun for me...
...but...it means I wont be 4WDing unless I take a trip or two up to Malaysia perhaps. Either way, I wont own a car (2nd hand Prado with 80,000Kms = ~Au$100,000) and I guess I wont have a huge lot of input here on PP anymore. I wont be disappearing, and I'm sure I'll be checking back in every time I'm sitting in some busy Chinese city getting really homesick for the bush!
So guys & gals - you're a great group at least some of you :P - best forum I've been on on the net by far. I've been fortunate to meet some of you on Ppoint days out and had some great times. Thanks for all your input, ideas, help and jokes...I'll try to drop in on chat every now & then still and I hope I'll still be around to get back on board when I get a Prado again one day!
So anyway, I hope all goes well here - keep getting out there and I'll be following your trips with great jealousy I'm sure.
Oh, BTW there's a great Prado (and cheap camper) which will be for sale soon too! :cry: :cry: :cry:
I have about a month before I go so I'll still be hanging around anyway.
Lastly a big cheers to the admins who make this place so great - fantastic job guys!
Cheers.
The job is with Vision Research who are the primary manufacturers of high speed video cameras around the world. My position is to give pre and post sales support and training to clients and support for major events.
What this means in reality is that I could be on the ground at a rocket launch on standby in case one of the 25 cameras has a software or any other glitch and it's my job to fix it on the spot. I'll most likely be at the F1 for similar reasons. I'll also be working with universities in various situations where the operators may be physicists without photographic knowledge - it'll then be my job to advise on the right lighting to use and where to put it. So plenty of fun for me...
...but...it means I wont be 4WDing unless I take a trip or two up to Malaysia perhaps. Either way, I wont own a car (2nd hand Prado with 80,000Kms = ~Au$100,000) and I guess I wont have a huge lot of input here on PP anymore. I wont be disappearing, and I'm sure I'll be checking back in every time I'm sitting in some busy Chinese city getting really homesick for the bush!
So guys & gals - you're a great group at least some of you :P - best forum I've been on on the net by far. I've been fortunate to meet some of you on Ppoint days out and had some great times. Thanks for all your input, ideas, help and jokes...I'll try to drop in on chat every now & then still and I hope I'll still be around to get back on board when I get a Prado again one day!
So anyway, I hope all goes well here - keep getting out there and I'll be following your trips with great jealousy I'm sure.
Oh, BTW there's a great Prado (and cheap camper) which will be for sale soon too! :cry: :cry: :cry:
I have about a month before I go so I'll still be hanging around anyway.
Lastly a big cheers to the admins who make this place so great - fantastic job guys!
Cheers.
Matty80
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