your technician your partner your friend
The Czech mechanical engineer, the Canadian architect and the British medical equipment guy. The usual lunchtime banter at the site messhall at Al-Hasa (winter 98/99).
posted by Greybeard @ 21:08
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The Greybeard hard at it, hacking away at Al-Hasa in 2003.
posted by Greybeard @ 16:13
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Only 6 kms from here to work (that's straight ahead across the desert). I jogged over that territory almost every day for 6 ½ years! Taken from the roof of my bait in Mahasen, in Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia in 2003.
posted by Greybeard @ 16:12
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The Consultant's team assembled for fire extinguisher drill at site. Al-Hasa 1997.
posted by Greybeard @ 11:49
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After forty years working in the engineering support of medical equipment, and in new hospital projects both in the design office and "at site", I now consider myself semi-retired. Following army service in Hong Kong, UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia, I worked in Saudi Arabia (a further four times), Nigeria, Jordan, Oman (twice) and the UK Health Service. My earning skills have included hands-on installation, repairs, maintenance, inspections and technical support of medical equipment. Together with advising on biomedical engineering generally, planning equipment layouts, producing equipment listings, writing specifications, and assisting architects etc. These days I live as simply and cheaply as I can, and (as far as possible) on my own terms, keeping my hand in by repairing or refurbishing medical equipment or doing inspections and maintenance work, sometimes for charity groups. But what I enjoy most is developing computer software, as a quirky and obsessive coder happy to be immersed in thorny problems for months at a stretch. "Free as a bird", and without any permanent address (generally moving on from time to time), I still jog as often as I can.
