>Is their some aspect of life that is without passion? Look - it's all about why some guys are content playing in a club band and others want people to buy their CDs and have sex to their music. And I am practicing a motivational style. At the end of this thread I will ask you to send me money.

You sure can try. I'm not sending a dime to any self-proclaimed motivational guru. And I have no remorse at that, for I know they won't starve. There's always a sufficient supply of suckers who'll cling to the next group therapy fad.

>How many marquee geeks are part of a team? I never see Marcia and Company - or Fournier and Company or Strahl and Company or Holtzer and Company.

Unless you think Andy isn't keeping her company...

>You never see Sergey and Company or Rodman and Company.

You could see my company, when I had a team. We were great, and each one a respected individual. Until they all sold out :).

>When we log into the UT we log into greatness!(c)Terry Thurber 2006

True.

>It's hard holding your head up when you realize that 90% of the reason you were hired is that you could pass a urine test! (I had to say it - why - why do I talk like this?)

Who needs drugs? True geeks generate their own adrenaline, dopamine, whateveramine. Or write generators to do that for them.

>Fear of failure. There is a way around. It does not matter if you consider your self smart or stupid. Look in the mirror and tell yourself you're smart.

I'm much smarter when I don't look into the mirror. Looking into my editing window gives me a much better feeling.

>Here's the way it works: Either you are endowed enough to assure sucess - or you are too stupid to realized you can't "cut" it - and will hack it out till you get the result - or die trying - or go work at Circut City. (of course - you could become Team Manager - and just ride on the backs of your the brighter more agressive engineers on the bench.

Last time I worked in a team which had a manager, it was called project manager. I probably missed a couple of renaming milestones.

Anyways, the manager was deemed below a programmer at the time. (S)he was just the one keeping score in the game, and we were the players. Someone had to make sure we don't do the interesting before the urgent, but that was pretty much the limit of their jurisdiction.

>Rule: No one is stupid - some people are just wussies. Don't be a wussie. Wussies usually endup being MicroSoft Repairmen!

Now that's a futile job. It's beyond repair :).

>Where else can we get we get scolded by Marcia - harassed for grammer by David - or have the context of a thread generalized by Bernsten? Where else would a David F pamperer us through some arcane class or API?

If UT wasn't there, it would need to be invented.