On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My father's company had no choice but to stick to Autocad. There were a few > alternatives like Turbocad which was much cheaper and was good. The reason > why we had to stick to Autocad was because of employees. The existing > draftsmen (who call themselves design engineers) were not willing to learn > any new software. When we started to interview new people, some of them > thought that we were weird to use anything other than Autocad and a > majority thought that it would be a career disaster for them to work on a > non Autocad using company.
Although I know nothing about engineering drawing(save doing it in college) or CAD, I will pass general remarks. Learning something new is hard. It is hard for me, hard for you, hard for everyone. Only that it is less hard for certain people as they have trained their brains for that. Whenever we learn something new, a new channel has to form in the brain. It is like a needle laid on top of a clay like matter. It has to slowly form its impression. So this resistance is not unusual or unacceptable. > > [rant] > That's the state of our nation. Draftsmen who think they are engineers and > engineers who forget that any software is a tool. At least this shallowness > is currently limited to the college educated lot in our country :) Wonder > when car drivers are going to demand a BMW to get employed. Well as long as there is poverty in our country, as long as we are not as well off as some Western nation people will always be available for work. It is all about demand/supply. In general I think if we pay good money you get good people and if your company is known to be stable. -Girish _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
