Re: Career questions: databases
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:27:40 -0000
Message-ID: <1183415260.363038.234150_at_g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 2, 11:32 pm, "Neil" <nos..._at_nospam.net> wrote:
> I think you're taking it all wrong (and making too much of yourself, to be
> honest with you). DA Morgan gave you some advice based on his experience,
> with the intent of helping you.
Mate, all throughout this thread I have been repeating that I at most have intermediate skills compared to guys like Morgan. If that holds, how could I have ever made too much of myself? I don't think you're making sense here.
> He was trying to give
> you some friendly advice to help you be successful with your resume.
> No one here really cares if you're proficient or not. We don't think you're
> an "upstart." You're just a guy posting in a newsgroup. No one is threatened
> by you.
You're making me laugh here. How could you even bring up the "threatening" part? (Now we're going to have a "threat" thread instead of a "proficient" one. :D) Info: one can't obviously appear aggressive or threatening if he's humbly saying over and over again that he's at best a mediocre in your trade.
>This whole discussion was not about you at all. It was about what is
> or isn't proficiency, in general, not about whether or not you're
> proficient. No one really cares if you're proficient. It doesn't affect us
> at all.
Alas, that is how things become. I started the thread to get some questions answered and look at the truckpile of Shit (thanks Bob!) I came up with. As I point out, I'm not proficient, and though whether you guys might or might not be proficient doesn't really affect me either I have always been respectful of your skill. On my end, I've only wanted to find ways to increase my proficiency.
> So I think you need to take yourself a little less seriously, if you want
> some friendly advice.
Omigosh, now I'm repentant. Why didn't I brag about lecturing in
podiums and brandish challenges so that I could get away with it?
Shit, I never learn. As for friendly advice, I'm done with it. If this
is how techno-nerds are, there should be more people in the world
preaching religion or at least offer free counseling.
> I did read that. But I think you were taking the "woe is me" thing a bit too
Clarification doesn't necessarily mean "woe is me". I'm not asking for
your sympathy. As I said, I'm desperate to learn, and you have seen
how persistent I have been on that issue in my posts. In other words,
I might need your advice, but definitely not your sympathy.
>I was showing you that you can buy over the
Oh I'm sorry. You got me here. Ever heard of Google?
> far by saying that "even if you had the money" you couldn't buy it because
> you "don't have a credit card."
> Internet without a credit card if and when you ever get the money. Just
> correcting your false statement that you wouldn't be able to buy it "even if
> you had the money."
> Listen, you're not disappointing! Why would I be disappointed? Like my life
> is wrapped around whether or not you have bandwidth?? Amazing.
Thanks, you're understanding at last. Now you should realize it works the same way with me.
> Anyway, yes, you're at a disadvantage. I realize that. But people do get by
> with disadvantages. It might take you longer to browse. Or you might have to
> download what you're going to read or wait for it to buffer. A little more
> difficult, but doable.
I'm here. I'm here reaching out to experts over a forum. Don't you think I know what to do regarding giving effort?
> Here's my advice to you: get out there and do something. Once you start
> doing something related to programming, you'll find other stuff to do, and
> other stuff to do. And wherever you work, they'll probably have technical
> resources available for you to use and (gasp!) maybe higher bandwidth, etc.
> Just get out there and do something, and doors will open (if you're half as
> good as you say you are, that is... ;-) ).
This is the only part that truly addresses my condition. Thank you for being so informative. Now I realize, instead of having come to this forum I should have tried out Yahoo! Answers or the sorts.
> resources available for you to use and (gasp!) maybe higher bandwidth, etc.
> Just get out there and do something, and doors will open (if you're half as
> good as you say you are, that is... ;-) ).
You're desperately under the wrong impression that I'm begging you for sympathy or probably even asking you to buy me bandwidth. I asked questions because I couldn't find any answers in my context. Anyway, not your problem and not a word more on this.
>What we did do is get out there and
> start using the technologies that we knew, and, from there, learned more
> technologies. Just get out there and start doing something. :-)
By saying that credit card facilities, lack of resources and bandwidth, etc, etc, I was only trying to explain that technologies aren't really that easy to learn in these parts. Again, not to be misinterpreted as sympathy-begging.
> Well there you go. So you should be able to find a job. If you can't, then I
> don't know what to say.
My God! When did I ever say that I'm unemployed? Similarly, when did I ever say, omigosh, I'm the best, I'm the best, I'm the best?
No wonder the world has come to this.
Over and out.
Received on Tue Jul 03 2007 - 00:27:40 CEST