On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 20:41 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:22 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > I spent a great deal of free-time on the Caldera List and a lot of > > people knew me. That was back in the Bob Young days, with tie dye tee > > shirts, purple hair, roller skates, several pinball machines and Quake > > Fests, as soon as the suits left around 6PM. Even in my native > > industry, Chemicals and Marketing, it's usually who you know. So, make > > yourself known. > > I am now imagining you with purple hair, wearing hippy clothes and > skates and trying to sell recreational chemicals... ;-) Ha! Bob stopped by my cube one day after my 60 day period was over, and asked me if I knew why he hired me. He had that merry eye-twinkle thing going on. I said Sure! I knew it wasn't for my code and hacking abilities. I told him that I was his "goat among the thoroughbreds". Let's face it, young 20 somethings that had, until recently, wedgie pulling and stuffed-into-lockers sessions by the high school jocks, found themselves as gods now, but lacked some finer social skills. He walked away, still eye-twinkling and grinning broadly. So, I was the almost 50something goat. I guess he didn't know that I liked to play network Quake as much as the rest of them!!! <grins> I went through about 4 peer interviews, all by 20 somethings. One, who's name I forget, got up close and said "I'm a communist!! What do you think about that??"!! I said, "Well, according to Marxist Doctrine, Thesis meets Antithesis and that results in Synthesis ...new ideas. That's always a good thing and keeps society from becoming stagnant." I think he got the point that an almost 50 something could be an anarchist as well. That was a Kodak Moment, to see his face light up and we high-fived. I got hired. They paid me more than I was worth, to tell the truth. The day I quit, with a bunch of personal legal things going on around me, was a very sad day. I thought they were the best bunch of people I've ever met, anywhere. It was like family that you got to chose, and the Church Of Linux, all rolled into one. I hope it still is tie-dyed, purple haired and full of commie anarchists wearing Che` t-shirts there. If you don't think out of the box, you stay in the #$%^& box. So, it goes to show, be yourself and you'll fit somewhere! And, if you don't, then make your own personal niche. That's what I'm doing. Many others on this list do the very same thing and are as successful as much as they wish to be. The bitch is to balance that with having a real life, as well. "Always forward, but never straight." is a famous quote from the 70's. It applies today, hence my handle. <huge grin> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
