Are you the most arrgant person in bizzaroworld, or is everyone like you ? -----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 20:15:00 -0400 Subject: RE: Newbie Model Glue Questions
> >> Then everyone else can have the scraps that are > >> left over after developers who've taken the time > >> to stretch themselves have taken all the best jobs. > >> It's really that simple. > > > I know plenty of people who do not comply to the *Isaac > > Dealey* way of thinking, and they all have very good > > jobs, oh wait, so do I, now how did that happen? > > You got yourselves into a vanishing niche while there was still room > for new people to enter that space. As the years progress, your > current niche will continue to dwindle. It will of course never > completely vanish, however, if you don't stretch yourself you'll have > to live with the value of your skills diminishing as the skill-sets of > other more agressive developers continue to evolve. More advanced > developers will bring the price of their skills down until it becomes > accessible to your clients, at which point it will start to devalue > your skill set. > > This is all very basic economics. > > Here's another analogy. America, the land of the free -- and here at > one point in time, farming was one of those "american dreams" wherein > a person could have the land and the life they wanted. Not so much > anymore because large corporate agro-businesses have pretty well taken > over the agricultural market. Today's farmers are doing well to be > surviving, _IF_ they survive against the competition of corporate > agro-business. A large number of the farmers who are still surviving > have joined co-operative farming groups in order to help themselves > compete in what is a vanishing niche for them. > > The difference with us is that every single one of us has the ability > to choose to be that person who is continually becoming, by stretching > ourselves to learn new things and make ourselves more valuable. So > while there's very little a farmer can do about their vanishing niche, > asside from stop farming, we can all choose to stay in our current > field of work by adapting our niche. > > > > s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 > new epoch : isn't it time for a change? > > add features without fixtures with > the onTap open source framework > > http://www.fusiontap.com > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237283 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
