Peter Nachtwey
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I spend a lot of time doing applications support. Usually it is before the sale. I need to convince the customer there is a solution. One gets involved in many different types of applications and I think it is a much better position to be in that to be stuck in a factory where you see the same things day after day and your unused skills disappear.I learned a heck of a lot when employed as an applications sales engineer.
I still like getting involved in new projects that are kind of different. After many years a lot of projects are simply variations of the same old thing.
Doing system integration is good too if you work on different types of projects.
I don't mind when people knock engineers. I know there are good one and bad ones. I still haven't found a system with a transfer function stamped on it. In my opinion almost every system is kludged or at best 'evolved'.