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 |  I travel the country on business, sometimes the world. Come see where I've been. |
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Talk about perks, my job has one of the best ones I can think of! I travel in the course of business, delivering classes for my employer. I am a Senior Training Specialist for Motorola Solutions, and teach classes on a wide variety of subjects centered around 2 way radio communications. I'm qualified to deliver approximately 30 different classes, but about half of those are 'Legacy' classes, and are not in demand anymore. My students are technicians, those who maintain, program, calibrate, and repair large 2-way radio systems. Some of these systems are statewide, and use TCP-IP networking to allow sites to communicate with others. Some are small, traditional type radio sites. The size doesn't matter, in each case the systems must be kept operational at all times, since many of them are Public Safety Systems. So I get to travel, sometimes frequently, 3-4 weeks in a row.... where am I this week? This probably won't have daily entries, but I will make entries when I get to go somewhere, and keep an updated list of coming trips. My schedule changes faster than the weather, so don't be too surprised to see me list an upcoming class, only to remark later on that it is cancelled, or delayed. Delays are fine of course, but a later date might mean that someone else gets to go instead of me,,, Well, here we go with this, let's see where it takes us.  Best Cultural And Regional Honorable Mention |
| Locale: Schaumburg Illinois/Los Angeles Week of: 9/11 & 9/18/2023 I've spent the week of 9/11 delivering a small class. I should really say short, but it would be accurate to say short, and small. Short as in three days of class, small in that there was only ONE student in attendance! You might wonder why we'd schedule a class like this? Well ,this particular class is not delivered that often anymore. When it is scheduled it is usually cancelled due to a lack of students. Apparently someone called the Manager and essentially begged us to deliver the class. This was back in April or so. Since I'm the Lead Instructor for it, it was placed on my schedule. Two students were scheduled, but one didn't show up. So the lone student received a lot of one on one attention that week. It all went well, but I almost forgot (or did forget) to post about it. This past week (9/18) I was in Los Angeles for the fifth time this year, delivering a class. This is the third of this series of classes, and the third different class I've delivered to them. This was a very good class. Well really, this particular class is a two in one class. Two products that work together, but very small in scale. I'm the only instructor who delivers one of the products so of course it fell to me. I've tried to encourage others to learn this small device without success. It's fine by me though. After all, this small product is why I was sent to Germany and Thailand in 2017 & 2018. Someone has to learn it soon though, I do plan on retiring after all. I will be in Los Angeles one more time this year, but with a different customer, the LAPD. I'll be back in March and April for other classes with them. Today I flew from Los Angeles to Washington DC for another class with a customer here. I'll be here all week before flying home Friday and starting a two week vacation then. I'm actually out in the Glen Arden area. If you'd like to meet up for coffee or something, let me know. Maybe we an work something out,. Well, that's about it for now. Until my next post, be good to those you love, spoil them, and write!  Jim Dorrell |
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