In a very real sense, I agree with schnell. However, I do not at all see the point in becoming the boss of such numbskulls. That would be a demotion. Instead, go work for a company that encourages your enthusiasm, a company that sees such enthusiasm as a plus, a win-win situation. Working for a company that is inhibiting and dis-enabling is not good for your career nor your personal growth.
Do the company executives know of your achievement or has your "supervisor" buried it?
Soulskill me man, you have the right idea. Your career will be made if you continue down the performance-ethic path you have embarked upon. This path is implemented via a steady cycle of study-learn-work-produce. Your tenure will be secured and you will be very much in demand. I should know, I am 61 years old and still get calls from strangers wanting me to come work for them. You will certainly not be subject to "Finished at 35".
Indeed. Our local military base set theirs off all at once without even waiting for dark. It was a grand taxpayer-funded DoD display of "shock and awe".:) What happened was that a vicious storm was approaching and they did not want to leave all those explosives out in the open.
The US Government, including uniformed services, also grades this way. A quota is enforced that prevents supervisors from giving good reports to good employees. The only way I have seen to win in this system is to put office politics and power games ahead of meaningful accomplishment. One has to "manage up", meaning that one has to keep one's nose stuck up the right rear-end. Those are the ones who do well, not the ones who put mission first in an effort to accomplish something. Because of this, the US Government spends more and more money, creates more and more agencies, and hires more and more people while getting less and less accomplished. Is there any reason to wonder about the US' loss of world leadership, military strength, and economic prowess?
Questions and some discussion from my personal opinions:...
Have you enjoyed being a technical expert? If so, management will drive you crazy. You say you are concerned about your career partly because of office politics. You do not sound like you are any good at that game. "Management" today is all about power games and office politics. Knowing about business management, business development, business administration, and business execution are valuable. But, that does not mean you have to stop being an expert in your field and specializing in business execution. From that perspective I do not advise trying to "move up" by getting an MBA and trying to become a manager....
Does your present situation limit your personal growth? As a technical expert myself, growth to me is having more and more freedom to do what needs to be done to solve increasingly difficult problems and undertake increasingly difficult applications of technology. (Technical team leadership is a part of that.) In this way, you build a reputation for results that does not depend on who you work for. Stay an employee if you like, especially if you would not like running a small business. However, keep your skills so high that you are in demand. Moving on is a risky undertaking but a professional person has to learn to manage risk. The time to move on is when you reach the peak of the wave, not when the wave is dying out. Still, do not ride the wave to the bottom....
Have you taken the long view of your career? It is important to build your career in such a way that you have something worthwhile to write in a resume and say during an interview. This kind of thinking goes beyond job hunting and into career building. Having a job is not the same as having a career. On my website (http://informationanthology.net/CareerMentor/) are posted articles by myself and others on this topic....
Best of luck in your efforts.
Yeah..... Right. Companies will be eager to turn their IT over to nameless people and big bureaucracies that companies can not hold accountable to support the business' goals and mission. Those who try this will soon find that they are left with nobody to turn to. We went through this with mainframes. We go through it with centralized "service" entities within companies. We turned away from all that because of the lack of accountability and the lack of control over critical assets and services. Do not make the mistake of succumbing to this siren song. You think you will save money but you will not.
Personally, I think we should just let MS go its own proprietary way while the rest of the world goes with open software and languages. Any company that takes a standard and reworks it for its own proprietary purposes does not deserve a loyal customer base.
The fellow's only reason for giving up his citizenship is to avoid paying his share of the taxes we all must pay. Yes indeed, speaking as an American citizen, he is not welcome here. Plus, he should pay the taxes anyway. The money will flow through American banks to his accounts, wherever those accounts may be. As that flow occurs during and after the IPO, all appropriate taxes should be extracted. He and others who forsake citizenship to avoid taxes should be declared persona non grata, never again to be allowed entry to this country, besides having taxes extracted as their wealth leaves our shores.
The real solution is for the American people to take back control of a ever-growing government composed of increasingly arrogant people who could care less about the population they are supposed to serve.
Agreed. Google's first two pages are usually right on target. The only way to get "... 30,000,000 returns in.0013 milliseconds' of irrelevant search results..." from Google is to make poor and irrelevant search attribute choices.
Fiziko's experience is similar to my own. My opinion is that, yes, education models must change but trying to do away with live in-person teachers is a mistake. I also think that a formal lecture can help lay the foundation in a course upon which students can build.
Yet another way for the government to get work done for nothing. They pay a trifle and get hordes of people working. Who sponsors the work of all those who do not win this lottery?
This story reminds me of the one on the front page of our local newspaper that breathlessly informed us that contractors lie in order to get government contracts. This is extremely common. That papers are published in such a way as to earn publication in a respected journal or conference proceedings without revealing enough to enable replication is just as common. Money is made via patents and exclusive deals with industry. Yet, the academic still has the charge to publish. Even those of us in industry have a need to publish because of the urges of marketing.
You asked my reaction to $500 hammers.
Having served as a uniformed program manager in DoD I had to go through certification training in procurement. (I hold several. One is of the highest level.) During those courses we were specifically trained in ways to get the contractors to do work for free under the bid and proposal process. We were also trained in ways to manipulate the contractor community using the economic might of the government. What the government forgets is that it costs money to do work and to produce products. If work is done for "free" the cost has to be made up somewhere else. So, $500 hammers and other such should be no surprise. (Not to deny the cost affect of low-quantity unique components.)
One of the most sacred mantras in the government (not just DoD) is that more gets done with less and that work gets done for free. I have seen four-star generals put into retirement because they refused to promote that false notion. So, everyone plays the game. Everyone thinks of the government as a separate entity and that the money belongs to the government. Nobody thinks of the money as belonging to the people and that the government is supposed to serve the people. Instead, they have their personal agendas and fiefdoms. They prefer promotion to doing what is needed to accomplish something meaningful. In the end, whatever does not work is done ever more fervently. Regulations are written to prevent anything from being done that does work. In that way, more and more money can be demanded to accomplish less and less.
You see the results today in the weakness of our military. Troops are lied to about why they can not get armor fittings for vehicles being used in direct combat. People are put in prison for doing what must be done to keep front-line troops supplied during a “shock and awe, rapid pace of combat” invasion. “Leaders” sit in safe-zones and Pentagon offices being fawned over while trying to control the action down to the individual bullet to be fired. Those in authority have become expert at not giving orders but making clear what they want you to do, leaving you to take the heat if things go wrong. Fratricide is allowed to pass and its perpetrators rewarded unless there is a politically-negative public outcry. Notice too the reductions undertaken by DoD as a result of the budget cuts (cuts that simply limit growth in spending). They cut the number of troops and equipment, not the number of high-ranking deadwood (uniformed and not). Their next step will be to complain that they can not carry out their mission because of the cuts. In this way, they game the system to get more money. Notice too what they did with the retirement plan for military. The brass cut the lower-ranking troops but not themselves.
Indeed, I am truly not surprised.
Why does our own Government insist on purchasing military equipment and components from non-US suppliers? What is wrong with American industry that we have to send our money to other countries to have defense-essential items produced? One often hears the "Generals" say that this approach yields the best value for the American people. Tell me again how it is good for Americans to be put out of work and to not have the education and training to make them economically viable. Tell me again how it is a good thing to destroy American industry and employment opportunity by sending jobs to other countries. Tell me again how it is good for America to create a huge out-of-work and under-employed population. Tell me again how our being past our individual and national debt limits is a good thing.
America is on a very slippery slope and is not going to recover if it stays on its current track.
Shotguns are used in a pigeon shoot. The rounds have small shot so as to not destroy the birds while still killing them quickly. Plus, the rounds are unlikely to have had sufficient range to have been of danger to the vehicles on the highway. (The distance between the hunters and the highway was not given.) At our local trap range we often fire in the direction of active aircraft runways and horse trails. The high grass beyond the trap house is cut back to show the range of the shells. That range is extremely limited.
"... some are asking a bigger question: Should billionaires rule our schools?"
The bigger question is, "Do we want unaccountable government monopolies ruling our schools?"
Our present "system of education" is clearly not working. We should be examining worthwhile alternatives.
Yes. Everything has a purpose but not everything is sentient. Otherwise, animals would not have been provided for our health and welfare.
When one considers the prime-mover philosophy combined with the infinite intelligence of God Himself, one can not submit to a definition of human intelligence or the meaning of life based on some mass-voting technique that is limited to human mentality. One can also not yield to the "God is unnecessary" viewpoint promoted by some scientists who have managed to understand some infinitesimal facet of God's creation. Nor can we go with the attitude of some science fiction writers who insist we will one day "outgrow our need for a 'God' concept".
arcite: would love to talk to you more about your adventures. Most citizens of Africa really need inexpensive devices for accessing the internet and reading eBooks. I can be reached through my website, career_mentor @ ameritech . net.
The described process sounds like it will attempt to discover what most people think and call that the definition. It ignores larger facets that go beyond mankind's limited way of thinking about things.
Just this weekend I published an article specific to this topic. It is available in electronic form from Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Readers for your laptop, computer, or other device are downloadable free. The title of the article is "Micro-Tasking -- A Productive Use of the Internet".
By "scanning", what do you mean? Are we talking about searchable records or just a bunch of images? If searchable, what quality control is going to be provided? As someone who has re-published books that are out of copyright, it takes a lot of quality control to ensure a usable product. Unless high-quality searchable records in a solid database are the end result, the project is not worth funding, in my personal opinion.
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. The states pushed. Now Amazon is playing the game. It is too late for normal retailers.
In a very real sense, I agree with schnell. However, I do not at all see the point in becoming the boss of such numbskulls. That would be a demotion. Instead, go work for a company that encourages your enthusiasm, a company that sees such enthusiasm as a plus, a win-win situation. Working for a company that is inhibiting and dis-enabling is not good for your career nor your personal growth. Do the company executives know of your achievement or has your "supervisor" buried it? Soulskill me man, you have the right idea. Your career will be made if you continue down the performance-ethic path you have embarked upon. This path is implemented via a steady cycle of study-learn-work-produce. Your tenure will be secured and you will be very much in demand. I should know, I am 61 years old and still get calls from strangers wanting me to come work for them. You will certainly not be subject to "Finished at 35".
Indeed. Our local military base set theirs off all at once without even waiting for dark. It was a grand taxpayer-funded DoD display of "shock and awe". :) What happened was that a vicious storm was approaching and they did not want to leave all those explosives out in the open.
The US Government, including uniformed services, also grades this way. A quota is enforced that prevents supervisors from giving good reports to good employees. The only way I have seen to win in this system is to put office politics and power games ahead of meaningful accomplishment. One has to "manage up", meaning that one has to keep one's nose stuck up the right rear-end. Those are the ones who do well, not the ones who put mission first in an effort to accomplish something. Because of this, the US Government spends more and more money, creates more and more agencies, and hires more and more people while getting less and less accomplished. Is there any reason to wonder about the US' loss of world leadership, military strength, and economic prowess?
Questions and some discussion from my personal opinions: ...
Have you enjoyed being a technical expert? If so, management will drive you crazy. You say you are concerned about your career partly because of office politics. You do not sound like you are any good at that game. "Management" today is all about power games and office politics. Knowing about business management, business development, business administration, and business execution are valuable. But, that does not mean you have to stop being an expert in your field and specializing in business execution. From that perspective I do not advise trying to "move up" by getting an MBA and trying to become a manager. ...
Does your present situation limit your personal growth? As a technical expert myself, growth to me is having more and more freedom to do what needs to be done to solve increasingly difficult problems and undertake increasingly difficult applications of technology. (Technical team leadership is a part of that.) In this way, you build a reputation for results that does not depend on who you work for. Stay an employee if you like, especially if you would not like running a small business. However, keep your skills so high that you are in demand. Moving on is a risky undertaking but a professional person has to learn to manage risk. The time to move on is when you reach the peak of the wave, not when the wave is dying out. Still, do not ride the wave to the bottom. ...
Have you taken the long view of your career? It is important to build your career in such a way that you have something worthwhile to write in a resume and say during an interview. This kind of thinking goes beyond job hunting and into career building. Having a job is not the same as having a career. On my website (http://informationanthology.net/CareerMentor/) are posted articles by myself and others on this topic. ...
Best of luck in your efforts.
Yeah..... Right. Companies will be eager to turn their IT over to nameless people and big bureaucracies that companies can not hold accountable to support the business' goals and mission. Those who try this will soon find that they are left with nobody to turn to. We went through this with mainframes. We go through it with centralized "service" entities within companies. We turned away from all that because of the lack of accountability and the lack of control over critical assets and services. Do not make the mistake of succumbing to this siren song. You think you will save money but you will not.
Personally, I think we should just let MS go its own proprietary way while the rest of the world goes with open software and languages. Any company that takes a standard and reworks it for its own proprietary purposes does not deserve a loyal customer base.
Given the fundamental financial issues Greece faces, it is amazing they would fall for the red herring offered by RIA and others.
Sounds like a benign non-event to me.
The fellow's only reason for giving up his citizenship is to avoid paying his share of the taxes we all must pay. Yes indeed, speaking as an American citizen, he is not welcome here. Plus, he should pay the taxes anyway. The money will flow through American banks to his accounts, wherever those accounts may be. As that flow occurs during and after the IPO, all appropriate taxes should be extracted. He and others who forsake citizenship to avoid taxes should be declared persona non grata, never again to be allowed entry to this country, besides having taxes extracted as their wealth leaves our shores.
The real solution is for the American people to take back control of a ever-growing government composed of increasingly arrogant people who could care less about the population they are supposed to serve.
Agreed. Google's first two pages are usually right on target. The only way to get "... 30,000,000 returns in .0013 milliseconds' of irrelevant search results ..." from Google is to make poor and irrelevant search attribute choices.
Fiziko's experience is similar to my own. My opinion is that, yes, education models must change but trying to do away with live in-person teachers is a mistake. I also think that a formal lecture can help lay the foundation in a course upon which students can build.
Yet another way for the government to get work done for nothing. They pay a trifle and get hordes of people working. Who sponsors the work of all those who do not win this lottery?
This story reminds me of the one on the front page of our local newspaper that breathlessly informed us that contractors lie in order to get government contracts. This is extremely common. That papers are published in such a way as to earn publication in a respected journal or conference proceedings without revealing enough to enable replication is just as common. Money is made via patents and exclusive deals with industry. Yet, the academic still has the charge to publish. Even those of us in industry have a need to publish because of the urges of marketing.
You asked my reaction to $500 hammers. Having served as a uniformed program manager in DoD I had to go through certification training in procurement. (I hold several. One is of the highest level.) During those courses we were specifically trained in ways to get the contractors to do work for free under the bid and proposal process. We were also trained in ways to manipulate the contractor community using the economic might of the government. What the government forgets is that it costs money to do work and to produce products. If work is done for "free" the cost has to be made up somewhere else. So, $500 hammers and other such should be no surprise. (Not to deny the cost affect of low-quantity unique components.) One of the most sacred mantras in the government (not just DoD) is that more gets done with less and that work gets done for free. I have seen four-star generals put into retirement because they refused to promote that false notion. So, everyone plays the game. Everyone thinks of the government as a separate entity and that the money belongs to the government. Nobody thinks of the money as belonging to the people and that the government is supposed to serve the people. Instead, they have their personal agendas and fiefdoms. They prefer promotion to doing what is needed to accomplish something meaningful. In the end, whatever does not work is done ever more fervently. Regulations are written to prevent anything from being done that does work. In that way, more and more money can be demanded to accomplish less and less. You see the results today in the weakness of our military. Troops are lied to about why they can not get armor fittings for vehicles being used in direct combat. People are put in prison for doing what must be done to keep front-line troops supplied during a “shock and awe, rapid pace of combat” invasion. “Leaders” sit in safe-zones and Pentagon offices being fawned over while trying to control the action down to the individual bullet to be fired. Those in authority have become expert at not giving orders but making clear what they want you to do, leaving you to take the heat if things go wrong. Fratricide is allowed to pass and its perpetrators rewarded unless there is a politically-negative public outcry. Notice too the reductions undertaken by DoD as a result of the budget cuts (cuts that simply limit growth in spending). They cut the number of troops and equipment, not the number of high-ranking deadwood (uniformed and not). Their next step will be to complain that they can not carry out their mission because of the cuts. In this way, they game the system to get more money. Notice too what they did with the retirement plan for military. The brass cut the lower-ranking troops but not themselves. Indeed, I am truly not surprised.
Why does our own Government insist on purchasing military equipment and components from non-US suppliers? What is wrong with American industry that we have to send our money to other countries to have defense-essential items produced? One often hears the "Generals" say that this approach yields the best value for the American people. Tell me again how it is good for Americans to be put out of work and to not have the education and training to make them economically viable. Tell me again how it is a good thing to destroy American industry and employment opportunity by sending jobs to other countries. Tell me again how it is good for America to create a huge out-of-work and under-employed population. Tell me again how our being past our individual and national debt limits is a good thing. America is on a very slippery slope and is not going to recover if it stays on its current track.
Shotguns are used in a pigeon shoot. The rounds have small shot so as to not destroy the birds while still killing them quickly. Plus, the rounds are unlikely to have had sufficient range to have been of danger to the vehicles on the highway. (The distance between the hunters and the highway was not given.) At our local trap range we often fire in the direction of active aircraft runways and horse trails. The high grass beyond the trap house is cut back to show the range of the shells. That range is extremely limited.
"... some are asking a bigger question: Should billionaires rule our schools?" The bigger question is, "Do we want unaccountable government monopolies ruling our schools?" Our present "system of education" is clearly not working. We should be examining worthwhile alternatives.
Yes. Everything has a purpose but not everything is sentient. Otherwise, animals would not have been provided for our health and welfare. When one considers the prime-mover philosophy combined with the infinite intelligence of God Himself, one can not submit to a definition of human intelligence or the meaning of life based on some mass-voting technique that is limited to human mentality. One can also not yield to the "God is unnecessary" viewpoint promoted by some scientists who have managed to understand some infinitesimal facet of God's creation. Nor can we go with the attitude of some science fiction writers who insist we will one day "outgrow our need for a 'God' concept".
arcite: would love to talk to you more about your adventures. Most citizens of Africa really need inexpensive devices for accessing the internet and reading eBooks. I can be reached through my website, career_mentor @ ameritech . net.
The described process sounds like it will attempt to discover what most people think and call that the definition. It ignores larger facets that go beyond mankind's limited way of thinking about things.
Just this weekend I published an article specific to this topic. It is available in electronic form from Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Readers for your laptop, computer, or other device are downloadable free. The title of the article is "Micro-Tasking -- A Productive Use of the Internet".
Is Guantanamo closed? He signed that order on his first day in office three years ago. Clearly, Obama's dictates do not carry much weight.
By "scanning", what do you mean? Are we talking about searchable records or just a bunch of images? If searchable, what quality control is going to be provided? As someone who has re-published books that are out of copyright, it takes a lot of quality control to ensure a usable product. Unless high-quality searchable records in a solid database are the end result, the project is not worth funding, in my personal opinion.