In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807182043350.16497@darkstar.example.org>, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> People doing rote work, inflating themselves by titling > what they do as a sport or something. > No different from "sanitation enginerr".
Hey, watch it fella, I was one of them thar sanitation engineers. ;-)
Worked for a research outfit.
Asked them what my job was supposed to be, and they said it was to "clean up" the bugs in the old Surveyor series of robot spacecraft, so I assumed they meant I was some sort of sanitation engineer. Worked there for 34 years.
Those old robot spacecraft paved the way for the Appolo guys, because at the time no one knew much about the Moons surface.
Some thought the surface was covered with many feet of soft powdered soil, and that the Appolo spacecraft would "sink into" that soft powdery soil when it landed.
That idea was quickly dispelled when we almost lost one of our robot Surveyor spacecraft, from it bouncing around on the hard surface of the Moon when it landed.
Oh there _was_ a fine layer of powdered soil, but it was only a few inches thick, over a very hard igneous rock base.
> So if you have to schlep your trunk around selling shower curtain rings, > calling yourself a "road warrior" lets you sidestep the mundane nature > of your work, and the reason you need the laptop is to send orders to > the front office, not to do anything creative.
Yeah I guess that is one way of looking at it.
In my case, I hole up at a hotel, usually a very upscale hotel, get my initial computer "contacts" out of the way in that city, then sit back and revert to a "regular Mac user" afterwards. (whatever the h*** a regular-Mac-user is)
As for being creative, I don't have a creative bone in my body, so you are correct there.
Always admired creative types of people, however.
The really creative people need us drones y'know, because they consider it an insult to dirty their hands with mundane work :)
