""Geoff Zinderdine"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Uh, sounds curiously like a case of sour grapes. Guys who are at the top > of > > the business world make more money in a week than we make in a year. More > > to the point, in my experience, it's always better to be the one giving > > orders than to be the one taking them. Why do you think the comic strip > > Dilbert is so popular? Sure, the pointy-haired boss might not know > > anything, but at the end of the day, he's still the one giving orders. > > You seem to suffer from that curious American disease of equating money with > career fulfilment and happiness. There is no sour grapes at all, and > throughout my various career paths I have chosen what made me happy over > what made me rich. This is not to say that I want to work for free, but I > am quite happy making what I do in a year. I have no desire to do a job I > loathe to make more money. I couldn't care less who gives orders. There is > far more nobility in serving well than in managing poorly.
Hey, if you're cool with that, then that's cool. That's always been my point - if you're happy being the technical guy who's taking orders from other people, then God bless you, everything that I say doesn't apply to you. But on the other hand, even you agree that there are a lot of people (not just Americans, but a lot of people in the world) who want money. For some of these people, it is precisely money that brings them happiness. And who's to say that you can't have a happy career that also happens to produce a lot of money? I don't see it as an either-or choice. Sure, some rich people are unhappy. But go to the bad, poverty-stricken part of town, and you'll see some REALLY unhappy people. I volunteer for various charities, and I spent the holidays providing toys for needy people who couldn't afford to buy simple gifts for their children. I was happy to help out, but that's some real misery I was looking at. > > I have never been interested in corporate culture... and the revelations of > the wrongdoings of American business over the past few years point to > exactly why I am not. It is far better to be ethical and content than to > try to devour the world with one's greed. Like I said, if you're happy with your lot, then God bless you. But again, I don't see that business success and ethics is necessarily an either-or choice. You can be successful and ethical. And besides, I don't know that ethics has anything to do with this argument. CCIE's can be just as unethical as anybody else. > > Regards, > > Geoff Zinderdine > CCIE #10410 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=60305&t=59481 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
