Mechanical Engineer

     Since I was a child I always wanted to be someone to work with cars. I wanted to either create them or fix them, and now I really want to be an automotive mechanic. An automotive mechanic performs maintenance work on a vehicle in order to prevent damage from occurring. If damage does occur, you need to diagnose the problem and make repairs on the vehicle. The skills required for this job are pretty simple. You just need to know how to work with the equipment, be fast, accurate and use lots of logic and reason. For most jobs you need at least five years of experience and for the more paying jobs you need up to ten years or more of experience.

     The company, Aerotek, wants someone that’s very focused and committed. They want someone to have the same goal they have which is to advocate safety for drivers and pedestrians, including children. They pay $25.000 - $35.00/hour.The job options are either full time,temporary, contract, or project. I picked this job because it’s something I always wanted to do since I was a child. I love taking things apart and fixing them to improve them. This job has everything I like, it allows me to improve and fix the structures of cars. I like that not only can I fix cars, but I can make the driver that much safer because they won’t have any car difficulties that can cause accidents. The thing I least like about this job is that it gets very competitive. It will get harder and harder to keep up through out the years. This is the only downside, I would like to maintain a good reputation and be ahead of the competition. Other than this I would really like to become an Automotive Mechanic.

Lost iPhone 5 Prototype

     Today I came across an article called, “Police investigating accusations in bizarre lost iPhone 5 case” and decided to see what the fuss was about. As it turns out, someone who was in charge of the new iPhone 4 prototype lost the prototype. This incident happened in 2010 when the Apple Engineer went to a bar to celebrate his birthday. He lost the case and it was picked up by some other person and when they found out it was missing, it was immediately tracked down by Apple. Apple tracked it to a house in San Francisco and when they went to search they found nothing. This incident repeated itself this year with the new iPhone 5 prototype. This time it was left in a tequila bar in San Francisco. Once again they tracked the device, but this time the police was involved. The police searched the house and found nothing, they even searched the Man’s computer incase he plugged the device in at some point. This happened in July and they still haven’t found the iPhone 5. They haven’t even found the iPhone 4 prototype either.

     I truly think Apple needs to take better care of their Apple devices. They especially need to be careful with their prototypes because they seem to misplace and lose them a lot. When Apple lose their devices and get the police involved they get people in trouble and make the police look like terrible people. When the police was involved in looking for the iPhone 5 they searched a guy named Sergio Calderón. They were actually threatening him and asking if everyone in living in his house was a citizen. That made the police look awfully bad and that would’ve never happened if Apple never lost their prototypes.

 

The “Police investigating accusations in bizarre lost iPhone 5 case” article can be found at:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/sfpd-investigating-involvement-in-bizarre-case-of-lost-iphone-prototype.ars

The Internet of Things

     I just recently read an article called, "The Internet of Things" and I have to say that it scared me very much. The article written by David H. Freedman says that in the future we might be able to keep tabs on everything we have, even pants. Can you believe it? A tiny pocket size phone will be able to keep track of all your belongings. They may even be able to keep track of other people if they get a chip installed in their body.

     Personally I think that this is scary and astonishing. It would be extremely weird for someone to keeptrackof you and know where you are every moment of the day. This is also weird because it sends randomthingsabout your stuff into the Internet. It will send things into the Internet that you won’t be able to take back. Everyone will know what you have and where it is, so you will have no personal things or secrets.

     I am against this idea. I think that people should try to keep more things to themselves. Technology likethis can be extremely dangerous in the hands of the wrong people. People with bad intentions can easily tracksomeone down and harm them. This can be tremendously dangerous. Whether it’s from cyber bullying orphysical harm, it’s still dangerous. I am also against this because people nowadays are becoming toodependent on technology. With this new "tool" coming along people are going to become even moredependent and don't forget to mention lazy. If more technology like this is being mad, then how are we goingto be able to have great leaders and a safe and calm environment in the future?