Re: Oracle on Demand - Kiss your DBA jobs good-bye.

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:38:55 -0700
Message-ID: <1190162326.189594@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

joel garry wrote:
> On Sep 18, 4:42 am, Noons <wizofo..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>> On Sep 18, 8:54 pm, Mladen Gogala <mgog..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Nope, the statement is completely incorrect. You can teach ethics to
>>> anyone, including a school of piranhas, the problem is that they cannot
>>> learn. But, provided that the pay is good, you can teach them anything.
>>> For an additional pay, you can even give them passing  grades and
>>> certificates for being ethical piranhas. Now, this was 1-2-3 in ethics.
>> LOL!

>
> Funnily enough, this session my wife is teaching ethics to grad
> students. She has a morning class, an afternoon class, and an in-
> between class which is a lecture to a combination of the two. She
> says one class is lively and active, while the other is just dead
> (it's not an after-lunch issue, it's the people in the class).
> Besides that, some otherwise smart people really can't learn. Kinda
> late to figure out you are not cut out for a profession after getting
> a doctorate and putting in 3000 hours of internship, but that's life.
> Puts those ripoff DBA trainings into perspective.
>
> jg
> --

First job I had out of college I worked for a PhD who had a favorite phrase I've never forgotten.

"He/she is educated beyond their intelligence."

Apply where appropriate.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Tue Sep 18 2007 - 19:38:55 CDT