Re: Herd instincts?

On Nov 23, 3:20 am, JosephKK <joseph_barr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx posted to
sci.electronics.design:





On Nov 19, 11:05 pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:29:09 -0800, "Herbert John \"Jackie\"
Gleason" <BufordTJust...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Slowman hits a home run.

Looked like a foul ball to me.

PhD's, in industry settings, are the least productive of all
employees... least cash-flow per dollar invested.

For example, Bob Widlar didn't even complete his undergraduate
degree until many years in industry.

And Slowman can't hold a job.

That's because he's busy holding his wife's purse.

Nice try. In fact I've never had any trouble holding a job once I've
got it (granting that the job has continued to exist).

Jim Thompson has managed to confuse getting a job - where I've not
been doing too well recently, probably because I'm too old to suit
Dutch personnel departments - with holding a job.

Getting a job requires moderately well developed presentation skills
- not an area where I've put in a lot of effort.

Holding a job requires that you do the work, and I've always done it
better than most.

Jim is - as usual - out of touch with reality - which probably helps
him present his (admittedly above average) design skills as if he
was another Bob Widlar, Hans Camenzind or Barry Gilbert. Guys like
that do get hired, but they don't last - and Jim did leave Motorola
because they didn't want to keep on using his team.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

So hang out your shingle and go consulting, if your skills are near
what you say they are you should not have any trouble getting all the
business you want.

Try it sometime. I might have done better if I'd spent serious money
on advertising my services, but I really couldn't see where I could
get the message to the sort of people who might have used me as a
consultant, and I could see that I could waste a lot of money if I
failed to hit the right audience.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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