Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com writes:     I doubt anyone will go start a guild today.  The working conditions just aren't bad enough.  American professionals live very well by world standards. What's the

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Friday 17 April 2009 23:25, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: From: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:32:56 -0400 My wife made a suggestion that seldom gets discussed, guilds. The medieval guilds established several tough-to-reach competence grades for their

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-18 Thread TARogue
We do have guilds today. They're called unions. -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994) ___

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com writes: I doubt anyone will go start a guild today. The working conditions just aren't bad enough. American professionals live very well by world standards. What's the System Administrators Guild up to, these days? -- Don't be afraid to ask

OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-17 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
For the tenth time in 10 years (the third time in the last 12 months), I'm looking for a new job... snip Sadly, I think it's an example of an all-too-common experience for Technology workers over the past decade...snip I can also see a bunch of ways that it wouldn't work. I'm sure it is

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-17 Thread VirginSnow
From: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:32:56 -0400 My wife made a suggestion that seldom gets discussed, guilds. The medieval guilds established several tough-to-reach competence grades for their members, spanning apprentice to journeyman to master. They