On 25/06/12 Mark Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi James et all, > >Just got around to reading your blog post, James. Interesting >perspective and, I have to say, a reflection of some of my own inner >dialogues from time to time. > >I keep writing a response and then deleting because it's all just >about myself. but then again, what else have we got to use as our >template for evaluating the world about us? > >Keep on as you are, for as long as you can manage it. The ten years I >worked as a hodcarrier/labourer contained some of the best thinking >times of my life. I never read and applied philosophy or literature >more clearly to the world about than those years.
that might be better if that's what i did.. but i'm not finding time to look at what anyone else does or time to read anything just time (right at this moment) to code https://github.com/jwm-art-net/Petri-Foo/commits/master and write about it https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=petri-foo-devel my world/ssh/rinking i know nothing... plus a bit of cycling and repotting chillis and stuff in the garden/coldframe/porch. socially heading toward zero. not exactly complaing... just whining a little bit... could be worse hell could freeze over stiff upper lip chin up..mwahhhh... on to work.... > >And then I sold my soul to the devil! > >M > >On 24 Jun 2012, at 09:18, James Morris wrote: > >> Hi Marc, >> >> Thanks for reading.. Glad you found something of interest there :-) >> >> James. >> >> >> On 23/06/12 marc <[email protected]> wrote: >>> "Where do I go from here?" Text talking about employment... >>> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> I was reading you Journal today (yes, people read it you muppet!)... >>> http://jwm-art.net/o7.php?p=j20120523-0154 >>> >>> In the Journal entry for May 2012 "Where do I go from here?" - your >>> experience with the IT company sounds very unfortunate... >>> >>> "Some time later they contacted me for a second interview. I had >>> been very negative in my last interview they said. They would (if >>> they were to offer the job to me) pay for me to go onto a computer >>> science course at the local university. Where do you stand on >>> intellectual property rights I asked? The answer shocked me. All >>> code I would write in their employment regardless of whether it was >>> written in work hours or not would belong to them. Exceptions would >>> have to be arranged, but they would prefer for my focus to be on >>> their work not my own or the projects of others." >>> >>> This is a classic 'absolutist' mannerism regarding full-time >>> employment. But as you mention further down in your journal, due to >>> you being involved in the arts and being a critical individual, this >>> makes you a non-candidate for the 'happy clappy' role of pure >>> submission of your soul to any job. An issue that many are likely to >>> share & appreciate on this list. Do we really have to be banal >>> robots to accepted into the labour market? >>> >>> Because our minds are curiously drawn to other things which are not >>> necessarily part of an all consuming hegemony - we can end up being >>> seen as threats, when in reality many are just passionate beings >>> exploring amazing things. >>> >>> Wishing you well. >>> >>> marc >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> >> -- >> http://jwm-art.net/ >> image/audio/text/code/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- http://jwm-art.net/ image/audio/text/code/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
