RE: Job Trends (was: India)

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

No offense taken here, but I'm a little surprised by Goober's fit. Some
newbies are open-minded and eager to learn, listen closely, take good notes,
and ask all the right questions.

On the other hand, some highly skilled and experienced techies are stubborn
and reluctant to admit that they might need to learn *anything*, barely
listen, refuse to take notes, and fail to ask any questions. But we're still
expected to explain things to them.

Dan Goldstein

-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Davis [mailto:michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:51 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: TECHWR-L; techwoohoo -at- yahoogroups -dot- com
Subject: Re: Job Trends (was: India)

Offense taken. I do this quite regularly, troubleshoot & fix PC's and 
Mac's, give instructions for why the cropping isn't working in Quark, 
etc. It is highly paid and you get to meet interesting people, and when 
you work predominantly at home and the only interesting people you meet 
are on a list serv, well, there you have it.

Of course, there are the hideous people, who I won't talk to even though 
the billable is huge, I stick my UNIXy husband with them. He's a 
programmer, I figure he needs to work on his people skills anyway. <big 
nasty grin>

Michele

Goober Writer wrote:

>No offense to anyone who might find that type of work
>rewarding, but I would either kill myself or go on
>some kind of homicidal rampage if I had to teach
>newbies how to use Word.
>
>I don't think our profession will go in the crapper,
>unless you consider our profession a static "we do X"
>profession.
>
>I see myself as a solutions provider. If you're a good
>communicator, you are a good problem solver. With a
>little tech knowledge, you can become invaluable.
>  
>