On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:08 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > <snip> > > had given away to the customer and we couldn't complete the task > > within their time frame or budget. Marketing will do anything > > (usually) to make the sale and then the Engineers try to get it done > > on time and within the budget. Remember the comparison between > > Engineers and Mushrooms...... > > I wish you good luck on the reentry (there's a pun there... aerospace). Bill: Thank you! It's an *uphill* battle. When the right Manager sees something on my resume that he/she needs for a project, it'll click. My wife and I are fans of the Space Shuttle program and we were at KSC to watch a launch of Atlantis on 19 May 2000, when she was pregnant. Reentry is difficult! Launch is also incredibly dangerous. On TV, it looks almost routine.... > > Having been a mushroom... er software/systems and many related for a > long time, I know whereof you speak. That's what prompted me to add the > adjectives and the attempt at humor. I read something in an IEEE publication, about 2 years ago, that I gave to a high school boy who lives in our subdivision, who was interested in going into Engineering, about why someone would go into Engineering, when they could become a doctor or lawyer or some other profession, with more stability and respect than Engineers frequently get.. This is way OT for the CentOS list... Lanny -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080701/dd2b60cd/attachment-0004.html>