Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:49:43 -0500 From: "Whil Hentzen (Pro*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: I'm too old for this s***
> Youth and speed is overrated. I need to hang out with a different crowd. Ran a 5K a couple weeks ago. I got beat by a gal pushing a baby jogger.
I just spent my Sunday morning racing (as in 25-30mph "I''d run over my own mother for an extra place", not a charity ride) bicycles with whippersnappers who were in some cases literally half my age or less. Beat most of them. Little buggers seem to get faster each year, though. I dunno, I find myself slipping more and more into management roles, and (*gasp*) actually finding myself liking it. Because someone needs to corral that youthful enthusiasm into something that can be used and maintained over a period of time. College Boy just isn't going to know the gotchas that switching to Topaz-on-MagLev may present. Little Miss Master's Degree hasn't yet learned how to "manage up", and doesn't know the tricks of making the team look like stars with a few key status reports and framework tweaks. Oh, I think I can still crank out code with the best of the youngsters. Just got done with a (if I do say so myself) really cool hw/sw test solution that probably is patentable, and solved a problem no one else in the industry seems to have figured out. But much to my horror, I find herding the cats into a workable team to crank out cool stuff to be pretty rewarding, too. Having seen some of the nightmares created by 25 year old "managers" that got there by attrition or by being good engineers, I think some years of experience in the field can be leveraged to gel good, enthusiastic youngsters into good teams. Too old for this? Hell, I think I'm just getting good at it. -- Mike Stewart _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
