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From: Joel Koltner on 20 Apr 2010 12:24 <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message news:do7qs5h5q9ie6moghi1q69147n9kmp2ao3(a)4ax.com... > Would you be an employee of HP or the job shop? I think the job shop, although I don't really know. > I got half way through but the program (Syracuse) was a joke and I got > bored. I was just a handful of credits + a thesis away from finishing when my employer went belly-up, so I stuck around for a year as a "research assistant" (joke #1) to finish the coursework and then spent, um, three years (having left and found a real job again) finishing my "thesis" (joke #2). In retrospect I should have found a different professor (rather than going with the first one I asked who I knew would agree to sponsor me) -- mine was a perfectly decent and intelligent guy (and a very good teacher), but I was never particularly interested in his specific areas of research. Oh well... I did enjoy the coursework, though -- with very few exceptions, the time I put into those was more than worth it. Oddly, even while demonstrating my lack of being a very good student -- at least insofar as study areas he was interested in went -- over those three years, my professor was always "encourgaing" me to get a PhD. No way was I going to sign up for that! ---Joel
From: Joel Koltner on 20 Apr 2010 12:30 <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message news:k08qs55alg80oep63p14bj3n9vfip7ostc(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:25:55 -0700, "Joel Koltner" > <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>The problem might be that guys who go to business school are often no better >>running a business at 40 than they are at 25. :-) > You think the experience of running businesses into the ground teaches them > something other than how to run a business into the ground? Practice makes > perfect. Yep! > BTW, the owner of the company where I work is a business school grad. ;-) The owner here dropped out of college*. :-) This is actually the second company I've worked for where that was the case! ---Joel * This was back in the '70s where you could still get a job at places like HP with no college degree (e.g., Steve Wozniak, who was working for HP before quitting to commit to Apple full-time, at which point he dropped out of college as well); I think it's rather harder today to become successful if one chooses this route.
From: Joel Koltner on 19 Apr 2010 12:52 "mpm" <mpmillard(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:4201bfb6-1dd5-47d0-a6f9-5df22f13ac3c(a)r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > Unless I were applying for a software game-development type job, I > think I'd have a huge hangup about even mentioning the word > "zilla" (in all its assorted falvors) in any job interview > situation. :) Well, pretty much all companies that develop software use some form of bug-tracking these days, and Bugzilla is certainly a very popular form based on its feature set and the fact that it's freely available. I don't think anyone cares about the name all that much... That being said, if you apply at some company making some little digital widget that you can reasonably understand all the piece-parts of (say, an MP3 player or PDA or GPS receiver) and they tell you they've got hundreds or thousands of bugs in their bug-tracking system, I wouldn't recommend accepting the job offer. John Larkin has the right idea here -- even though his products aren't as complex software-wise as an MP3 player, I think his bug-list count seldom exceeds one digit. ---Joel
From: Joel Koltner on 19 Apr 2010 12:53 "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:833fh7Ftu0U1(a)mid.individual.net... > And being able to draw a schematic in a way that it looks nice and is easy > to read by others. Not in "cram-it-in-there" style. ....unless they're going to work for the Japanese radio manufacturers :-)...
From: Joerg on 20 Apr 2010 12:39
Joel Koltner wrote: > <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message > news:k08qs55alg80oep63p14bj3n9vfip7ostc(a)4ax.com... >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:25:55 -0700, "Joel Koltner" >> <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> The problem might be that guys who go to business school are often no >>> better >>> running a business at 40 than they are at 25. :-) >> You think the experience of running businesses into the ground teaches >> them >> something other than how to run a business into the ground? Practice >> makes >> perfect. > > Yep! > >> BTW, the owner of the company where I work is a business school grad. >> ;-) > > The owner here dropped out of college*. :-) This is actually the second > company I've worked for where that was the case! > This guy even dropped out of school, yet succeeded: http://www.ltbn.com/hall_of_fame/Branson.html [...] -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. |