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From: paul@uofm-cv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Your job quals
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Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 16:48:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  5 16:48:20 1983
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Having seen a spate of ads for "computer professionals" in the
Sunday papers and the net, I wonder what the general reaction to
a certain kind of as was.

For example, how many of you out there are in high-profile
positions or visible to upper management, aggressive, highly motivated
and the like?  I am a little put off by the General Patton management
approach, myself.

How do those ads strike you, if you know what I am talking about?  Is the real
world really like that?  I am in a cloistered, womb-like university setting
where we don't have the profit motive to worry about (although I suppose
defense contractors don't, either) and where we sometimes go for days or
even weeks without maximizing the win.  Sometimes I am a self-starter, though,
and start to sweat when it absolutely, positivly has to work by tomorrow.


						Paul Killey
						Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng.
						University of Michigan
						Ann Arbor