[HarryBosch]

I’ve been in the technology industry for 20+ years. I’ve worked for the major companies that SELL into IT.

I agree that when you are in IT that when the s**t hits the fan then you are expected to work through the night and on weekends when your area is down: the network, the servers, the storage, the applications, the database engines, whatever. When one of those goes down they tend to bring everything else down with it. The hard part is bringing everything back up in the right sequence to a known point in time. Downtime is lost revenue.

What has worked for me is being the technical half of a sales team. As a technical pre-sale person you get to continue to challenge yourself and learn new technologies before they hit the commercial market. And, you also get to share in the commissions without taking the huge risk that the pure sales reps take – though they do get the bigger rewards.

My advice to someone starting new in the technology field is plain and simple: never stop learning.

Many of my colleaques are looking for jobs today because their skills and knowledge are not as fresh as they once were 10 years ago, even 5 years ago. Continue to learn new technologies.

Do whatever it takes to get the job done. Be driven. Be obsessed with your work.

[HarryBosch]

Nostra,

Nope, not my initials. Did you do Battlebots? Treasure Island ?

Our battlebots weren’t the most elegant but they were well built and survived a lot of punishment 🙂

I had to learn how to program those remote controls for the different ports but after I got that down then we had some great fights. Not many people realized that to make it to the TV rounds you first had to make it through the preliminaries. Well, I dont want to take this subject too far OT as I seem to have a habit of doing so with other threads. 🙂

[HarryBosch]

Nostra,

Nope, not my initials. Did you do Battlebots? Treasure Island ?

Our battlebots weren’t the most elegant but they were well built and survived a lot of punishment 🙂

I had to learn how to program those remote controls for the different ports but after I got that down then we had some great fights. Not many people realized that to make it to the TV rounds you first had to make it through the preliminaries. Well, I dont want to take this subject too far OT as I seem to have a habit of doing so with other threads. 🙂

[HarryBosch]

Nostra,

Nope, not my initials. Did you do Battlebots? Treasure Island ?

Our battlebots weren’t the most elegant but they were well built and survived a lot of punishment 🙂

I had to learn how to program those remote controls for the different ports but after I got that down then we had some great fights. Not many people realized that to make it to the TV rounds you first had to make it through the preliminaries. Well, I dont want to take this subject too far OT as I seem to have a habit of doing so with other threads. 🙂

[HarryBosch]

Nostra,

Nope, not my initials. Did you do Battlebots? Treasure Island ?

Our battlebots weren’t the most elegant but they were well built and survived a lot of punishment 🙂

I had to learn how to program those remote controls for the different ports but after I got that down then we had some great fights. Not many people realized that to make it to the TV rounds you first had to make it through the preliminaries. Well, I dont want to take this subject too far OT as I seem to have a habit of doing so with other threads. 🙂

[HarryBosch]

Nostra,

Nope, not my initials. Did you do Battlebots? Treasure Island ?

Our battlebots weren’t the most elegant but they were well built and survived a lot of punishment 🙂

I had to learn how to program those remote controls for the different ports but after I got that down then we had some great fights. Not many people realized that to make it to the TV rounds you first had to make it through the preliminaries. Well, I dont want to take this subject too far OT as I seem to have a habit of doing so with other threads. 🙂

[HarryBosch]

For that matter, why weren’t the (pause) “Drive-Ins” ever called the (longer pause) “Drive-Outs” ?

After all, you’ve gotta Drive-Out, unless you stayed, but then they would have been called the Stay-Ins – but you’re outside. So they would have been called the Stay-Outs and who would ever have watched a movie at the Stay-Outs ??? I can’t go “in” (long pause) to the (longer pause, raise eyebrows) (puzzled expression) “Stay-Outs” 🙂

Ah, a poor man’s impression of George Carlin 🙂

May he rest in peace <- and I'm sure he had a monologue about that one too 🙂

[HarryBosch]

For that matter, why weren’t the (pause) “Drive-Ins” ever called the (longer pause) “Drive-Outs” ?

After all, you’ve gotta Drive-Out, unless you stayed, but then they would have been called the Stay-Ins – but you’re outside. So they would have been called the Stay-Outs and who would ever have watched a movie at the Stay-Outs ??? I can’t go “in” (long pause) to the (longer pause, raise eyebrows) (puzzled expression) “Stay-Outs” 🙂

Ah, a poor man’s impression of George Carlin 🙂

May he rest in peace <- and I'm sure he had a monologue about that one too 🙂

[HarryBosch]

For that matter, why weren’t the (pause) “Drive-Ins” ever called the (longer pause) “Drive-Outs” ?

After all, you’ve gotta Drive-Out, unless you stayed, but then they would have been called the Stay-Ins – but you’re outside. So they would have been called the Stay-Outs and who would ever have watched a movie at the Stay-Outs ??? I can’t go “in” (long pause) to the (longer pause, raise eyebrows) (puzzled expression) “Stay-Outs” 🙂

Ah, a poor man’s impression of George Carlin 🙂

May he rest in peace <- and I'm sure he had a monologue about that one too 🙂

[HarryBosch]

For that matter, why weren’t the (pause) “Drive-Ins” ever called the (longer pause) “Drive-Outs” ?

After all, you’ve gotta Drive-Out, unless you stayed, but then they would have been called the Stay-Ins – but you’re outside. So they would have been called the Stay-Outs and who would ever have watched a movie at the Stay-Outs ??? I can’t go “in” (long pause) to the (longer pause, raise eyebrows) (puzzled expression) “Stay-Outs” 🙂

Ah, a poor man’s impression of George Carlin 🙂

May he rest in peace <- and I'm sure he had a monologue about that one too 🙂

[HarryBosch]

For that matter, why weren’t the (pause) “Drive-Ins” ever called the (longer pause) “Drive-Outs” ?

After all, you’ve gotta Drive-Out, unless you stayed, but then they would have been called the Stay-Ins – but you’re outside. So they would have been called the Stay-Outs and who would ever have watched a movie at the Stay-Outs ??? I can’t go “in” (long pause) to the (longer pause, raise eyebrows) (puzzled expression) “Stay-Outs” 🙂

Ah, a poor man’s impression of George Carlin 🙂

May he rest in peace <- and I'm sure he had a monologue about that one too 🙂

[HarryBosch]

I went to see George Carlin back in the late 70s at Cal State Northridge.

I don’t remember any specific lines but just that I really enjoyed his many unordinary observations about life and people.

Which brings to mind: why do people park on driveways and drive on parkways? 🙂

[HarryBosch]

I went to see George Carlin back in the late 70s at Cal State Northridge.

I don’t remember any specific lines but just that I really enjoyed his many unordinary observations about life and people.

Which brings to mind: why do people park on driveways and drive on parkways? 🙂

[HarryBosch]

I went to see George Carlin back in the late 70s at Cal State Northridge.

I don’t remember any specific lines but just that I really enjoyed his many unordinary observations about life and people.

Which brings to mind: why do people park on driveways and drive on parkways? 🙂

[HarryBosch]

I went to see George Carlin back in the late 70s at Cal State Northridge.

I don’t remember any specific lines but just that I really enjoyed his many unordinary observations about life and people.

Which brings to mind: why do people park on driveways and drive on parkways? 🙂

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