Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query

2020-03-31 Thread chuck
I did bare minimum d- work in HS but college was 3.77. From: Daniel White Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 3:26 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query I was a Sales Engineer once :-) My GPA in High School was around 2.7 because I outright refused to do

Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query

2020-03-31 Thread Daniel White
done very very well.  >   > *From:* Ken Hohhof > *Sent:* Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:32 PM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query >   > > One of my roommates in college was also an engineering student, but > not a very good stud

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2020-03-30 Thread Robert Andrews
Yep, I've been on the receiving end of that! On 03/30/2020 11:17 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 3/30/20 11:13 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I just finished a 330,000' fiber build for one of the largest companies in the world. I had to suffer through weekly (or more often) conference calls with

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2020-03-30 Thread Cameron Crum
... > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Webster > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:42 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > Having had to deal with Google on their Fiber builds in California.. I > can attest to

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2020-03-30 Thread chuck
I gotta take this offer to the Manager... -Original Message- From: Seth Mattinen Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:17 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query On 3/30/20 11:13 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I just finished a 330,000' fiber build for one

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2020-03-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/30/20 11:13 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I just finished a 330,000' fiber build for one of the largest companies in the world. I had to suffer through weekly (or more often) conference calls with project managers like this. I will never work for them again.  Nobody knows anything but they

Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query

2020-03-30 Thread chuck
way speeds you cannot read them. Many of them you have to get out of the vehicle and walk over to read the digits -Original Message- From: Brian Webster Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:42 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Having h

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2020-03-30 Thread Robert Andrews
[AFMUG] OT an honest query Truth is always the funniest! On 3/29/20 3:50 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Now THAT is funny. -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 3:40 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Or..."Why Google fails at so ma

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2020-03-30 Thread Brian Webster
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 7:44 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Truth is always the funniest! On 3/29/20 3:50 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > Now THAT is funny. > > -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 > 3:40 PM To: af@

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2020-03-30 Thread Ken Hohhof
Well, that demolishes the jocks=troglodytes stereotype. And looking it up, apparently troglodyte means cave dweller aka caveman. From: AF On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:06 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query I

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2020-03-30 Thread chuck
Oh, I did read a book about the Moab uranium boom. I knew some of the Hunt family. From: Robert Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:34 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Charlie Steen, amazing guy who found uranium in Utah and had a wild life... https

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2020-03-30 Thread Robert
: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Chuck, were you around Utah when Steen was making the splash around southern Utah? On 3/30/20 8:43 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I envy the role models you had. I came from dirt farmers, we lived in an unpainted house and the bathroom was a little building up the hill

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2020-03-30 Thread Adam Moffett
were total sweat hearts for all I know. On 3/30/2020 11:36 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: But just think though, without the sports you could have been successful! *From:* Cameron Crum *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2020 9:06 AM *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT an hone

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2020-03-30 Thread chuck
No, I grew up in Oregon. Who is Steen? From: Robert Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:56 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Chuck, were you around Utah when Steen was making the splash around southern Utah? On 3/30/20 8:43 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I envy

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2020-03-30 Thread Robert
.  Electricity is magic. *From:* Cameron Crum *Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2020 9:40 AM *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query LOL! You might be on to something. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:37 AM wrote: But just think though, without the sports you could have been

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2020-03-30 Thread Cameron Crum
Monday, March 30, 2020 9:40 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > LOL! You might be on to something. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:37 AM wrote: > >> But just think though, without the sports you could have been successful! >

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2020-03-30 Thread chuck
: [AFMUG] OT an honest query LOL! You might be on to something. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:37 AM wrote: But just think though, without the sports you could have been successful! From: Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:06 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re

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2020-03-30 Thread Cameron Crum
e a week. We aren't all troglodytes. > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:44 PM Robert wrote: > >> Truth is always the funniest! >> >> On 3/29/20 3:50 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: >> > Now THAT is funny. >> > >> > -----Original Message-

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2020-03-30 Thread chuck
But just think though, without the sports you could have been successful! From: Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:06 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query I guess it all depends on upbringing. My father was a D1 football scholarship athlete

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2020-03-30 Thread Cameron Crum
: > Truth is always the funniest! > > On 3/29/20 3:50 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > Now THAT is funny. > > > > -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 > > 3:40 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > Or

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2020-03-29 Thread Robert
Truth is always the funniest! On 3/29/20 3:50 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Now THAT is funny. -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 3:40 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Or...    "Why Google fails at so many new projects..."

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2020-03-29 Thread Ken Hohhof
an honest query Now THAT is funny. -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 3:40 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Or..."Why Google fails at so many new projects..." On 3/29/20 2:31 PM, Larry Smith wrote: > On Sun March 29 20

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2020-03-29 Thread chuck
Now THAT is funny. -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 3:40 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query Or..."Why Google fails at so many new projects..." On 3/29/20 2:31 PM, Larry Smith wrote: On Sun March 29 2020

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2020-03-29 Thread Robert
Or...    "Why Google fails at so many new projects..." On 3/29/20 2:31 PM, Larry Smith wrote: On Sun March 29 2020 14:49, can...@believewireless.net wrote: And we all know plenty of people with advanced degrees and perfect GPAs that went no where. We used to call them paper tigers, loads of

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2020-03-29 Thread Larry Smith
On Sun March 29 2020 14:49, can...@believewireless.net wrote: > And we all know plenty of people with advanced degrees and perfect GPAs > that went no where. We used to call them paper tigers, loads of degrees and certifications, but could not do the actual job. -- Larry Smith lesm...@ecsis.net

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2020-03-29 Thread Robert Andrews
that have done very very well. *From:* Ken Hohhof *Sent:* Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:32 PM *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query One of my roommates in college was also an engineering student, but not a very good student. Later he

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2020-03-29 Thread chuck
Used to be if you could find a farm kid that was also a ham it would be a good hire. From: can...@believewireless.net Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 1:49 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query I don't think there has been a good predictor found

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2020-03-29 Thread can...@believewireless.net
y well. > > *From:* Ken Hohhof > *Sent:* Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:32 PM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > > One of my roommates in college was also an engineering student, but not a > very good student. Later

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2020-03-29 Thread chuck
I have known some sales engineers and field application engineers that have done very very well. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:32 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query One of my roommates in college was also an engineering

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2020-03-29 Thread Ken Hohhof
or sales engineer. Within a few years he had his own company. Probably the most successful of any in our group. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmtjones From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:58 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query

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2020-03-29 Thread Adam Moffett
In gym class I was never an early draft.  Usually near the last. I did play on local soccer and football leagues, but never stood out.  I did it because everyone else did it, and the parents said I had to do something extracurricular.  This is a bit of an embarrassing story, but when I joined

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2020-03-29 Thread Darin Steffl
I think people who like attention and try to impress people, live the most miserable lives. Those with the most true success typically avoid the limelight and attention because they're too busy succeeding and changing the world. So the jocks or whoever you're referencing peak in highschool. After

Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query

2020-03-29 Thread Chuck McCown
I did do homework and science projects for troglodytes for money. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2020, at 11:29 AM, justsumname . wrote: > >  > I came from a family background of various starvationings. Now the democrat > party calls me a domestic terrorist but they still want my money

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2020-03-29 Thread justsumname .
I came from a family background of various starvationings. Now the democrat party calls me a domestic terrorist but they still want my money and they don't care about my life. Nobody ever picked me except to do their school work for them. -- On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:08 PM wrote: > Since we

[AFMUG] OT an honest query

2020-03-29 Thread chuck
Since we are all successful techno nerds here, I am wondering: Back in the day, when you lined up and a couple of troglodytes were assigned the task of picking people for their teams, how near the front were you picked? I was frequently next to last. Better than being last. The troglodytes