On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > I just remember that expertise often doesn't > > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > > > > Like say, social skills. > It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot > aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. > > Not to say all dorks are super-geeks, just that being a genius sometimes > comes with some eccentricitieities.
Social Skills == The BANE of any truly skillful Generalist/Admin/Analyst. I fall into this category, I see things far to broadly and consider it a curse for long term employment. I implemented Linux at work for a mail server in 1995. I was eventually fired for trying to move the entire back-end into this "Shareware thing". Funny thing is, they called me 3 years ago, to ask if I was still doing Linux. I said yes, they offered to pay for consulting time to convert them to a complete setup Linux backend systems. For all sites and firewalls and VPN and VOIP with Voicemail... lotsa fun. They now owe me $60K and are 390+ days in arrears. 1.25% penalty per month after terms of 90 days... (plus the 3 months of terms) it is adding up quickly and I have filed for collections. I gave incentive to the collections company, all monies over $60K is theirs. So far, $10,515 in penalty. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
