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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:05:25 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 3/19/13 12:00 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:14:06 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: I'm pretty sure you cannot "end up being a professor" in the traditional sense of that word without a Ph.D. A Master's degree, while a significant achievement, is not the academic qualifier required for being a professor. I bet that is true. They buy what they sell. Just love the disdain shown here so often for academic achievement. Sometimes it is justified. The local college was looking for someone to manage the dorm expansion project. They rejected my wife and another experienced construction manager in favor of a guy with a masters degree in construction management (and zero experience). Now the project is running almost a year behind schedule and the cost overruns are piling up. They hired what they sold, not what they needed. That could have happened for reasons that have nothing to do with the construction manager. |
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:07:12 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 3/20/13 10:01 AM, wrote: On 20 Mar 2013 13:34:06 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote: wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:05:25 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 3/19/13 12:00 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:14:06 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: I'm pretty sure you cannot "end up being a professor" in the traditional sense of that word without a Ph.D. A Master's degree, while a significant achievement, is not the academic qualifier required for being a professor. I bet that is true. They buy what they sell. Just love the disdain shown here so often for academic achievement. Sometimes it is justified. The local college was looking for someone to manage the dorm expansion project. They rejected my wife and another experienced construction manager in favor of a guy with a masters degree in construction management (and zero experience). Now the project is running almost a year behind schedule and the cost overruns are piling up. They hired what they sold, not what they needed. That could have happened for reasons that have nothing to do with the construction manager. That is why you hire a construction manager, to be sure those things don't happen. That's silly and you know it. All sorts of unexpected **** can happen on commercial construction sites, and many times for inexplicable challenges that are not easily resolved by a CM or anyone else. Don't you get it?? This is his thing. He cites some bull****, and people take it seriously, as though he has all the facts. He doesn't. In fact, it's very hard to have all the facts. That's why we have organizations like the NTSB who show up after a plane crash. It takes months to sort things out. But Gretwell sees all and knows all. |
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On 3/20/13 12:51 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:07:12 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 3/20/13 10:01 AM, wrote: . Now the project is running almost a year behind schedule and the cost overruns are piling up. They hired what they sold, not what they needed. That could have happened for reasons that have nothing to do with the construction manager. That is why you hire a construction manager, to be sure those things don't happen. That's silly and you know it. All sorts of unexpected **** can happen on commercial construction sites, and many times for inexplicable challenges that are not easily resolved by a CM or anyone else. Experience with local contractors and conditions is more valuable than anything you get from a book. There as also simply the experience you get from actually managing people. I wouldn't argue against your point, and you're not arguing against mine. |
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:51:36 -0400, wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:07:12 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 3/20/13 10:01 AM, wrote: . Now the project is running almost a year behind schedule and the cost overruns are piling up. They hired what they sold, not what they needed. That could have happened for reasons that have nothing to do with the construction manager. That is why you hire a construction manager, to be sure those things don't happen. That's silly and you know it. All sorts of unexpected **** can happen on commercial construction sites, and many times for inexplicable challenges that are not easily resolved by a CM or anyone else. Experience with local contractors and conditions is more valuable than anything you get from a book. There as also simply the experience you get from actually managing people. Anything? Really? Anything? Care to change that? There are lots and lots of really ****ty managers. |
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