Posted by dorayme on 05/09/07 21:37

In article <slrnf436un.fvj.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> On 2007-05-09, Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 May 2007 22:42:31 GMT dorayme scribed:
> >
> >>> > With an online reader, it is not so. If someone wants to have a
> >>> > go at something and is keen and has confidence in himself or
> >>> > herself, please don't sit up on that high moral horse and say
> >>> > stuffy old fuddy duddy things to him or her.
> >>>
> >>> Well, that sounds like a nice sentiment, but what you are really
> >>> saying is should someone want to make a fool of himself or herself,
> >>> let him or her do it. You probably won't be surprised that I demure,
> >>> but if it works for you...
> >>
> >> You still don't get it. First it has nothing to do with it
> >> working for you or me. A person who is prepared to learn on a
> >> job, has confidence and sense to seek advice, can very
> >> satisfactorily satisfy both himself and the client. You are
> >> fixated by the hysterical picture of the adventurer falling flat
> >> on his face. This inability to respect the possibilities of good
> >> and wholesome futures based on dash and nerve is fuddy duddiness.
> >
> > Well coitainly, dash and nerve will save the day sometimes, but isn't
> > it more likely that education and experience shall better serve?
> > That's only logical, and to consider reasonableness fuddy-duddiness is
> > surely a sign of erroneous thinking on the part of the boo-booer.
>
> Your logic is based on a false premise. When it comes to IT (which is
> quick to learn) people with decades of experience who are idiots occur
> with a frequency roughly equal to that of people with none but who are
> able to pick things up in a few months.

It never ceases to amaze me what talent some upstarts naturally
show, quite sobering in fact in many different fields. These are
often the people that would simply give the game away if they
went the 'study thoroughly and when fully qualified, only then,
gingerly step out in a modest manner to the commercial world etc"

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dorayme

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