Let's all do Karoshi !
Just think of the long-term benefits if we all just follow the trend and work ourselves to death.
Fewer people on the highways
Fewer elders collecting retirement
No need to raise taxes on the beleagured wealthy to prop up social security
Sure, boo hoo why feel sorry for the ex-dotcommie. I got a lot of that, especially from HR folk and interviewing managers.
The fact of the matter is that I gave enough of a rats ass to see the value of relational databases and unix networks 16 years ago. When 99.99% of the world was happy to buy a dead tree book and use snailmail I was on my first.gov email address, owning root and learning how do to data modeling.
I actually 'got it' when gopher was still the coolest way to browse the waves of text and Archie was a decent way to do searches.
So, I got lucky and the rest of the world got a massive hard on over the internet. Next thing you know I'm jed clampett and people are throwing money at my feet to babysit rooms full of servers and bounce the occasional database... riiigghhtt
I worked my freakin ass off for 12 damn years and at the peak I was a project manager for a dot com incubator bankrolled by a major telecom. All of it without a fancy schmanzy deegree or nuttin.
And what do I get at the end of it? Stock that ain't worth 100th of what it once was and a bunch of semi-envious onlookers just waiting for me to hit bottom.
It's been one hell of a 'learning experience' and I for one have learned an awful lot about it.
Quick lesson... (bad side first)Companies do not give a rats ass about the well being of their employees, co-workers will not pause one second before knifing you in the back and the only person that you can really depend on is YOURSELF!
Oh yeah, on the good side... There are actually some decent people in this world (and I appreciate the hell out of them) there is no better learning experience than humility, and all of that technology that I have hard-wired into my being has become the life blood of the society that we live in.
Cheers!
p.s. if you are not spending time bettering yourself, then you might as well dig a shallow grave and lay down in it.
I'm making 50% less than I was three years a go.
I can barely make my house payments.
All of my spare time has been going into getting a college degree.
My current employer offered me a 'gracious' 3% raise last year mixed with criticism for not following all of the rules (this compares with 10% annual raises and 10% yearly bonuses plus praise for being a maverick).
Gee.. Do you think that a change in the hiring market may affect my employment.
Yes... It IS all about ME!
Why, it's inside of every Storageworks that DEc, um, Compaq, um... I mean HP sells... They still call the controller an HSC-XXX (That's Hot Shit Controller, for you non-DECies)
OpenVMS
Duh!
Just trying to identify my three 'worst moments with electronics', seems like there are more than I can go into...
1. Learning about the magic smoke that lives in integrated circuits while miss wiring a bread board in electronics lab.
2. Realizing that the FMU 113b that I just pulled out of an alcohol tank still had the detonator in it.
3. 'Discovering' that the fan in the powersupply of my daughters recently upgraded PC had failed by frying my hand on the top of the case.
Luckily, all situations were survivable and cost me nothing more than an elevated heart rate;)
According to ATT, they are using compressed data and FT is _not_.
Otherwise, ATT's Daytona database would be MUCH larger than FT's puny Oracle database.
In this survey, the AT&T data warehouse is using Daytona's data compression features to great advantage whereas France Telecom is not using Oracle's compression features in any substantial way. To compare the two on this Database Size metric is to compare apples with oranges
Read about it here:
http://www.research.att.com/projects/daytona/
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Just think of the long-term benefits if we all just follow the trend and work ourselves to death.
Fewer people on the highways
Fewer elders collecting retirement
No need to raise taxes on the beleagured wealthy to prop up social security
Cheers!
Sure, boo hoo why feel sorry for the ex-dotcommie. I got a lot of that, especially from HR folk and interviewing managers.
.gov email address, owning root and learning how do to data modeling.
The fact of the matter is that I gave enough of a rats ass to see the value of relational databases and unix networks 16 years ago. When 99.99% of the world was happy to buy a dead tree book and use snailmail I was on my first
I actually 'got it' when gopher was still the coolest way to browse the waves of text and Archie was a decent way to do searches.
So, I got lucky and the rest of the world got a massive hard on over the internet. Next thing you know I'm jed clampett and people are throwing money at my feet to babysit rooms full of servers and bounce the occasional database... riiigghhtt
I worked my freakin ass off for 12 damn years and at the peak I was a project manager for a dot com incubator bankrolled by a major telecom. All of it without a fancy schmanzy deegree or nuttin.
And what do I get at the end of it? Stock that ain't worth 100th of what it once was and a bunch of semi-envious onlookers just waiting for me to hit bottom.
It's been one hell of a 'learning experience' and I for one have learned an awful lot about it.
Quick lesson... (bad side first)Companies do not give a rats ass about the well being of their employees, co-workers will not pause one second before knifing you in the back and the only person that you can really depend on is YOURSELF!
Oh yeah, on the good side... There are actually some decent people in this world (and I appreciate the hell out of them) there is no better learning experience than humility, and all of that technology that I have hard-wired into my being has become the life blood of the society that we live in.
Cheers!
p.s. if you are not spending time bettering yourself, then you might as well dig a shallow grave and lay down in it.
I'm making 50% less than I was three years a go. I can barely make my house payments. All of my spare time has been going into getting a college degree. My current employer offered me a 'gracious' 3% raise last year mixed with criticism for not following all of the rules (this compares with 10% annual raises and 10% yearly bonuses plus praise for being a maverick). Gee.. Do you think that a change in the hiring market may affect my employment. Yes... It IS all about ME!
Why, it's inside of every Storageworks that DEc, um, Compaq, um... I mean HP sells... They still call the controller an HSC-XXX (That's Hot Shit Controller, for you non-DECies) OpenVMS Duh!
Just trying to identify my three 'worst moments with electronics', seems like there are more than I can go into... 1. Learning about the magic smoke that lives in integrated circuits while miss wiring a bread board in electronics lab. 2. Realizing that the FMU 113b that I just pulled out of an alcohol tank still had the detonator in it. 3. 'Discovering' that the fan in the powersupply of my daughters recently upgraded PC had failed by frying my hand on the top of the case. Luckily, all situations were survivable and cost me nothing more than an elevated heart rate ;)