ATOT Gives Awful Advice

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TalonStrike

TalonStrike

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moshquerade said:
So, you started threads asking which careers were best overall knowing you thought the IT field was and now you're pissed b/c not everyone agreed with you?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2174510&highlight=

I've glanced at the list of threads you've made as of late, and you are always asking for advice. You will always have jokesters in the room, but there was some good advice given to you. For you to post a title generalizing on the advice giving of the whole of ATOT as awful is off base.

http://forums.anandtech.com/search.php?searchid=937521
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lol I wasn't pissed at all. Engineering finished top slot and that makes me happy.
 
IndyColtsFan

IndyColtsFan

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TalonStrike said:
You are one person, and you do not represent anything further than yourself.
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Exactly, and neither do you but unlike you, I have an entire career spanning multiple companies to see how many large (Fortune 500) IT departments operate.

No, I am not going to give you fodder for personal attacks. Just because you don't like your job, that doesn't mean that the next person won't.
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We all know why you won't answer the questions -- don't kid yourself. You're happy with your tech (is that what it is?) job -- great! Enjoy it and have fun while you're young. But take my advice -- if you get the chance to move into management, take it and make sure you hire good people.
 
MotionMan

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TalonStrike said:
Yeah, I think I'll be leaving ATOT soon since I have proven their advice and views on the world to lack any credibility.
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You asked career advice as recently as June 27th. So, I take it that, in the last week, you got a new job?

Seriously, come back in a couple years and let us know how it worked out. THEN you can start talking crap about the free advise you got from total strangers spread all over the world with differing backgrounds, knowledge, experience and intelligence and only limited knowledge of your background, knowledge, experience and intelligence (Did you ever state how old you are?).

MotionMan
 
Texashiker

Texashiker

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TalonStrike said:
There is no debate. ATOT's advice has already been proven to lack any credibility.
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The credibility of ATOT is from the wide range of experience we as a group have.

Your lack of credibility is due to your lack of work and life experience.

Come back after you have been laid off, company closed its doors, have a family to feed and a house note to make.
 
TalonStrike

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IndyColtsFan said:
Exactly, and neither do you but unlike you, I have an entire career spanning multiple companies to see how many large (Fortune 500) IT departments operate.



We all know why you won't answer the questions -- don't kid yourself. You're happy with your tech (is that what it is?) job -- great! Enjoy it and have fun while you're young. But take my advice -- if you get the chance to move into management, take it and make sure you hire good people.
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hmm ok...that sounds like good advice I suppose.
 
IndyColtsFan

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Texashiker said:
Come back after you have been laid off, company closed its doors, have a family to feed and a house note to make.
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I've seen a lot of friends laid off over the course of my career and fortunately (knock on wood), that has never happened to me. It does make you paranoid, though.
 
Tweak155

Tweak155

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Your outlook and results in life are based on what you make of it. If you can picture yourself being a millionaire there is no reason it can't happen.

A large majority of outsiders (including close people like your SO's) are barren with negativity. If this is the case, just think "would I like to be in the position THEY are in now?". If not, brush off and find someone who IS in the position you want to be in, and listen to them.

Want to be a millionaire? Mimic what millionaires do. Of course the caveat are windfalls and lottery winners, or in other words, people who did not truly earn their millions.
 
IndyColtsFan

IndyColtsFan

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TalonStrike said:
hmm ok...that sounds like good advice I suppose.
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If you're a manager and you hire great people to work under you and take care of them, you won't find an easier job. Your staff will make you shine and you can take credit for their development. It is a win-win.
 
GuitarDaddy

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For having such a great life and a great career, you sure are an angry and bitter little asswipe.
 
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Krynj said:
Were you the guy that made the thread about getting a job offer, but it wasn't for the amount you wanted, so you made the counter offer, and they took it?
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Nope, that was me. Glad I did it, even though the job is kinda boring. Projects move slowly when the project manager acts like he doesn't care about your project...
 
Texashiker

Texashiker

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IndyColtsFan said:
I've seen a lot of friends laid off over the course of my career and fortunately (knock on wood), that has never happened to me. It does make you paranoid, though.
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In 1999 a company I was working for laid off about 20% of its workforce, I was one of the people let go. A few years later the company closed its doors.

To go home and tell my wife that I no longer had a job, was one of the lowest points of my entire life.

Where I am working at now, we have had some serious budget cuts, in some areas as much as 60%. I dont know if I will even have a job next month. But if I dont, everything will be ok. My wife and I live well within our means.

If I lose my IT job, I might go back to school for something else. I am about tired of computers. If I have to, I'll go back into the welding field.
 
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