Reality Take

That last post had been stored since early January as a draft. I finally set it free.

Like a lot of MEP engineering firms the downturn in the economy has not been kind. Not as many people around as there were a year ago. The realities are everywhere and we are doing our best to keep moving along.

We have decided to forego our subscription payment for AutoCAD 2010. We know we'll be behind but since no one else is hiring in the construction engineering business there's not much risk. We fully acknowledge it will cost us more next year should we upgrade then. No matter. If we need to upgrade it means the economy has turned upbeat and we'll have the money to pay for the added cost.

I did a full cost review on the issue before we made our decision. The CAD Manager had gotten some subscription costs from our regular dealer and another one. I accessed cost in a spreadsheet over three years with a fourth-year eye-opening cost should we fail to return for AutoCAD 2013. Returning to subscriptions at Year 3 will almost certainly happen unless total depression economics overruns this country.