Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.social Subject: Re: selling oneself Message-ID: <886@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 15:53:20 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.886 Posted: Sat Jun 29 15:53:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:24:09 EDT References: <396@unc.UUCP><442@unc.UUCP> <2565@randvax.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 17 [The things _we_ take for granted never escape _his_ keen eye!] > I disagree. I want technical people who are competent and who are > reasonably articulate, but if they need to ``sell themselves'' in order > to be appreciated and utilized, I'm failing in my job as a manager. You're different. Most managers _are_ failing in their jobs as managers. > And > if they have a salesman-like mentality, I'll likely not hire them no > matter how technically competent they are. This may be a slur on professional salesmen. But selling somebody else's products for a living is bound to warp one's attitudes. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel