You most certainly are blessed! Even if we dont' agree by whom you are blessed! ;-)
It does sound like you have a great boss- the best boss I ever had once said that a good supervisor hands out the credit to their staff when things go well and takes responsibility when things dont' go well. It sounds like your boss certainly does the former. I have never understood bosses who took credit for their employees work - you look as good if you supervised the folks doing great work as if you did it yourself - I mean, thats why you SUPERVISE - You make sure staff has what they need to get their job done, you dont' need to DO what the staff does. --Beth, Pseudo usenet cop Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) Anchorage, Alaska ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: Blessed > I rant and rave around here a lot, so I hope you'll indulge me a few moments > of smushiness so that you can see, maybe, I do have a soft side, too :-) > > There are many days over the last year or so that I've felt truly blessed. > Of course, I thank God for this, but I also thank Cold Fusion. > > I thank God, and not CF, of course, for my wife, who loves me more than I > probably deserve and treats me like a king. We have our bumps in the road, > like all marriages, but we are best friends as much as lovers. I am entirely > grateful for this. > > Of course, CF allows me to take better care of her. > > I spent most of my adult life in shit jobs. Even after I started writing > HTML, I spent about three years bouncing around and not making much money > and getting shit on a bit. > > About four years ago, I switched from writing Lasso to Cold Fusion. Let me > tell you, no single decision has impacted my life any more or any better. > > For a little over two years now I've worked for a division of E.W. Scripps . > When I saw this job advertised, I knew it was perfect for me -- they needed > a guy who had experience, if not mastery of, HTML, PhotoShop, Javascript and > either Cold Fusion or ASP. The pluses I had going for me were my journalism > background (this was newspaper) and my entrepreneurial and business > experience (this is a small shop, so you've got to think big). > > Some things I now about the hiring process -- after my interview, they > stopped interviewing other candidates. My salary request was about $5,000 > over their budget high for the position, but I got my mid-range salary. > > In the two years since, I've gotten three raises, including the largest the > company currently gives. I have received recognition for my contributions to > helping the company make money from throughout the company. Even the CEO > knows my name. Now, I don't want to toot my horn too much -- many of the > ideas for the code that I've written have come from my boss. But the > applications that we are developing are being used throughout the company > today and making a significant contribution to the bottom line for our > company, with great potential for more. > > So, I've got great bosses, the best I've ever had. Great pay. Great > benefits. Great recognition and appreciate for what I do. A great > satisfaction of feeling like I'm doing something that is making a > difference, not just for my company but my entire industry (newspaper > publishing). I have a great wife. I live in a great location (three blocks > from the beach). You all saw my bitchin' guitar that I'm actually learning > to play! (It was bought and paid for by CF free-lance work.) I've got great > cats. The one real negative in my life is a pretty heavy debt burden from my > old business ventures, along with some bad spending decisions. > > So, I look at all these blessings, and I know I must thank God. But I also > know I must thank Cold Fusion. I wouldn't be where I am or be able to do > what I do without it. There are other languages that would allow me to > write solid code, but not as fast as CF. And I also think CF just suits > better the way my mind works. But without CF, I'd be making about half as > much money, probably at a lesser company and not getting nearly the job > satisfaction I get now. > > So, I've been feeling pretty loyal to CF these days. I do want to expand my > programming skills, but as long as I've got a CF server to run my stuff, I > think CF will always be my primary programming platform (of course, five > years ago, I said I would always on a Mac and not a PC!) > > H. > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
