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Hi Everybody.
It appears that I am the fortieth member of your group. My name is James Teague Morgan {Jim Morgan} and I live in Wales, which is a separate country inside the UK.
Any Teague's out there.
I have passed my sixtieth birthday.
As I communicate with the group so will my life story enfold.

Well back to the points raised about "Freelance Designers". From my own experience there has been a deliberated and constant drive by all the large international Design Co's operating in London, and that is to remove the layer of Designers out of the design loop. It was in 1985 that I was last working as senior Designer on {paper/ink/pencil}, a green field project. CAD {PDMS} was already in operation in that particular Co, but under the control of the IT department.
It was acknowledge later by senior management that a decision had been taken to remove the Freelance Designers { which were expensive and difficult to control, and to replace them by young graduates, programme operators, who were much cheaper and easier to mould into the Co ways of doing things. The Designers who worked along side me were all moved out to the fabrication works and construction sites, to finish off the projects. About 30% of the project had been left out of the loop and moved over to the construction part of the project, by means of the phrase " Site Fix ". Over the years these same young graduates who could drive the computers well, but who have never held an Iso pad or used 30 meter tape in anger, were now in positions of authority and did not take kindly to acknowledge these facts.
Looking back it seams stupid that just to save a few more pounds for the shareholders, the experience of the Designers was lost out of the design loop.
There was a definite move by these large Co's to keep Designers off the computer, and it was only in 1995 that I was able to learn Autocad. Well I think that's enough for now.
BRegards to you all.
Jim. Received on Wed Oct 27 09:58:00 1999