<snip> Wish I could just start over and be a farmer in some little rural ho-dunk town where my greatest concerns would be whether God was going to provide enough rain for the crops. </snip>
My old man was a farm labourer. Its no walk in the park, and (in Australia at least) God has been decidedly stingy with the old h20 for a couple of years in a row now and there are a lot of farmers who probably wish they took up IT - it sure beats the heck out of having to trudge around in dusty 46 degree heat shooting all the starving flyblown sheep you paid a fortune for but cant afford to feed or water anymore... -----Original Message----- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 31 March 2003 12:45 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] overwhelmed [was] Re: Does a degree matter? Does anyone else ever wake up going "Man, I feel overwhelmed. Too much too learn, not enough time." I started this computer stuff rather late in life and find it very difficult trying to pick out what to try concentrate my learning in. Bottom line is I have to put food on the table for the family so I have to concentrate in skill sets that are valuable (and not just fun:). I started this computer stuff rather late in life (4 years ago and I'm 33 now) and constantly wonder "What should I concentrate on learning next?" When you spend too much time learning one area you fall behind in another. That's what I find so amazing about some of these job applications- is they put down tons of skill sets and, sure there might be a few that truly 'know' all of the skill sets listed, but rarely have I come across that many people that can honestly say they are proficient in all of them. Then it's also the Catch-22 of if you diverse too much you end up being "ok" at a lot of stuff but not really "good" at any one skill. It seems like in this market it's best to just concentrate on being very good at a few skill sets vs trying to learn everything, but I could be totally wrong there. All and all it's just very frustrating:) Ehhh I'm just venting... just ignore me. Wish I could just start over and be a farmer in some little rural ho-dunk town where my greatest concerns would be whether God was going to provide enough rain for the crops. -- Rick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
