Maybe someone pointed this out already, or perhaps I am just a bozo...
If a mouse's sensorium is determined a great deal by its sense of smell... and you disable that sense of smell... its "higher-order cerebral functions" would be impaired because they would not be getting the input they require to make decisions. How can you conclude that fear in mammals is related to the oflactory sense? Other mammals may use other senses to a larger degree.
To me, this seems like the old joke about the bad scientist who concluded that a frog with all its legs removed becomes deaf because it doen't jump when he yells at it.
(May be a little out of context. Couldn't find an old thread that was similar.)
I am exposing my ignorance here...
I was under the impression that the only reason a card holder's signature is ever checked is to protect the creditor when that card holder claims that they never made the purchase in question. In other words, your signature is only checked if you try to get out of paying for a purchase. It is not intended, specifically, to protect the card holder from fraudulent use.
However, it is the cashier's, waitron's, etc. responsibility to make sure the signature looks valid enough that it can act as proof that you were involved in the purchase. Otherwise the creditor may withhold the cash. They shouldn't let Bill the Cat scribbles through unless that is what is on your card.
I don't want to come on sounding like I think I know everything and I am telling you what to do. So, if I slip and sound that way, please forgive me.
I have always been one to say that it is important to do what you enjoy. I think most everyone who participates on/. feels this way. The logic is this: "if I don't enjoy what I do (my job) then every day would be just another in a career long prison sentence." However, what you are talking about may not have anything to do with this. I think it may have more to do with determination and dedication. These things can only be demonstrated in the presence of frustrating circumstances.
I really hate to draw an analogy with love and marriage as people seem to have such negative views of these things these days; however I am finding it hard to avoid. Imagine a couple who start seeing each other, fall in love, marry, and divorce at the first sign of trouble. Most people would say that what they showed was not love. People, even those who are in love, can really feel very negative things for each other at times. They are certainly not feeling that gushy feeling that they had when the first stated out. In these times it is their determination and dedication that gets them through.
So, it has not been an entirely smooth road to this career I love. I am flawed. I simply can not do something forever with machine like determination without loosing a little of the emotional oomph that motivated me in the beginning. All kinds of things get in the way. Life happens. The world happens. All these things impact on my motivation and attitude. But, for the career I love, I can not give up. And, in the end, I hope the good, satisfying times outweigh the trying ones.
You have to decide if you really did enjoy what you were doing and are suffering from burn-out. In which case, some perseverance is in order. Many people have posted suggestions about other fresh ways to approach your career. (game programming, for example) If you really think it is a bad match, that you should really have never approached it seriously as a career, you really should consider other career options.
But you are the only one that can make this evaluation. You can ask opinions of people and get their input. But, in the end, you have to do what you think is appropriate.
And don't believe for a minute that there is a right/wrong answer. There are many careers that can potentially make you happy. There is no reason to believe that you were built for only one. You are who you are. You might be programmer Cliff, or Dr. Cliff or whatever you decide to dedicate yourself to doing. But, in the end, you are not your job. You are you. Your job is just something you do.
But... if you ever want to be great at what you do... I mean really great... it takes really hard work. Work that will probably stress you terribly no matter how much you love it. So don't throw in the towel just because you are tired. Love is an active thing. It doesn't just happen. You have to make it happen.
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Maybe someone pointed this out already, or perhaps I am just a bozo...
If a mouse's sensorium is determined a great deal by its sense of smell... and you disable that sense of smell... its "higher-order cerebral functions" would be impaired because they would not be getting the input they require to make decisions. How can you conclude that fear in mammals is related to the oflactory sense? Other mammals may use other senses to a larger degree.
To me, this seems like the old joke about the bad scientist who concluded that a frog with all its legs removed becomes deaf because it doen't jump when he yells at it.
(May be a little out of context. Couldn't find an old thread that was similar.)
I am exposing my ignorance here...
I was under the impression that the only reason a card holder's signature is ever checked is to protect the creditor when that card holder claims that they never made the purchase in question. In other words, your signature is only checked if you try to get out of paying for a purchase. It is not intended, specifically, to protect the card holder from fraudulent use.
However, it is the cashier's, waitron's, etc. responsibility to make sure the signature looks valid enough that it can act as proof that you were involved in the purchase. Otherwise the creditor may withhold the cash. They shouldn't let Bill the Cat scribbles through unless that is what is on your card.
I don't want to come on sounding like I think I know everything and I am telling you what to do. So, if I slip and sound that way, please forgive me.
/. feels this way. The logic is this: "if I don't enjoy what I do (my job) then every day would be just another in a career long prison sentence." However, what you are talking about may not have anything to do with this. I think it may have more to do with determination and dedication. These things can only be demonstrated in the presence of frustrating circumstances.
I have always been one to say that it is important to do what you enjoy. I think most everyone who participates on
I really hate to draw an analogy with love and marriage as people seem to have such negative views of these things these days; however I am finding it hard to avoid. Imagine a couple who start seeing each other, fall in love, marry, and divorce at the first sign of trouble. Most people would say that what they showed was not love. People, even those who are in love, can really feel very negative things for each other at times. They are certainly not feeling that gushy feeling that they had when the first stated out. In these times it is their determination and dedication that gets them through.
So, it has not been an entirely smooth road to this career I love. I am flawed. I simply can not do something forever with machine like determination without loosing a little of the emotional oomph that motivated me in the beginning. All kinds of things get in the way. Life happens. The world happens. All these things impact on my motivation and attitude. But, for the career I love, I can not give up. And, in the end, I hope the good, satisfying times outweigh the trying ones.
You have to decide if you really did enjoy what you were doing and are suffering from burn-out. In which case, some perseverance is in order. Many people have posted suggestions about other fresh ways to approach your career. (game programming, for example) If you really think it is a bad match, that you should really have never approached it seriously as a career, you really should consider other career options.
But you are the only one that can make this evaluation. You can ask opinions of people and get their input. But, in the end, you have to do what you think is appropriate.
And don't believe for a minute that there is a right/wrong answer. There are many careers that can potentially make you happy. There is no reason to believe that you were built for only one. You are who you are. You might be programmer Cliff, or Dr. Cliff or whatever you decide to dedicate yourself to doing. But, in the end, you are not your job. You are you. Your job is just something you do.
But... if you ever want to be great at what you do... I mean really great... it takes really hard work. Work that will probably stress you terribly no matter how much you love it. So don't throw in the towel just because you are tired. Love is an active thing. It doesn't just happen. You have to make it happen.
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