On 5/11/2016 12:30 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2016 08:57:10 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


I met and dealt with hundreds if not thousands of people during my
working career. They typically ranged from entry level tradespeople to
scientists and/or management personal with multiple Phd's. I don't
think I ever met anyone as narrow and shallow minded as you present
yourself here Harry. "Critical thinking" is not your forte, as
evidenced by your comments to any discussion here.

Millions of people in the world, including many posters to rec.boats,
have or had highly successful careers, accomplishments and made
contributions to society without benefit of what you regard as a "formal
higher education". Based on what I have deduced from your contributions
here, many are far more educated in meaningful ways than the high regard
you hold for yourself.

The only people I've met who think and sound like you are those who
chose (or were forced) to remain in academia for all their working
years. Yes, they have an abundance of knowledge, but most of it useless
in the real world.


Poor life choices and poor employment choices has Harry still out
there grinding out a meager existence while most of us his age are
comfortably retired. He will die working for someone else.
He rationalizes it every morning when his alarm clock goes off by
saying he likes it. Who "likes" a 2+ hour commute, even if the job is
tolerable?


I like my engineering jobs. But retired when the last employer screwed up,
and pretty much folded. Looking at a 1.5 hour morning and evening commute
decided the retirement.


The last full time "job" I had was running the
engineering/manufacturering company I had. It was rewarding in the
sense that I was able to control the culture of the company and
established many mutually beneficial relationships with some major
companies. But once the company grew to almost 100 people I found it to
be less and less enjoyable. Plus, company to company relationships and
ways of doing business was changing. Previously our real "customer" was
usually a seasoned and experienced project manager in a company who was
also a technologist. As the business world changed I found myself
dealing more and more with bean counters who didn't have a clue what was
being designed and built. After 12 years of it, I had pretty much had
enough.