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Originally posted by Chief Engineer:
Well, thanks for asking!

I am still hanging in there, but I'm less worried about how the world sees me now. I guess I was missing the admiration I often felt as a younger man when I first posted this thread. When I was starting out in my field I was a bit of an overacheiver, and the approval and respect it got me became addictive.

When you are young, and good at what you do, you can turn some heads. When you are my age (48) and still good, I guess it's less impressive.

So, I have had to modify my own expectations of how the world treats me. I find my job satisfaction in other ways, and I am fairly content about it.

Maybe what's causing you headaches is your perception of what you're accomplishing. I mean, we all like to be the front line hero, impressing the cute gals in the office. ;-)

But are the things that were fun at 20 still fun? I find that things that I thought were the bees knees (to coin a phrase) in my 20s are mindless drivel now.

The decisions of a 40ish year old should have a larger impact than the average 20 something. They may just not be understood by the average worker.

But deep down, I mean deep, deep down, where your inner warrior lives, you know that your more of a man than those stupid punks.

And tell them to tuck in their shirts for christ's sake. Damn slackers.

How old are you LKS???


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Lately I have found great satisfaction from taking on different challenges that are presented to my department. The owners son-in-law decided he wanted to do IP and wrote all these complicated programs. He got bored and moved on...so someone had to figure them out. I took on the challenge and am the reigning expert on them now.

The object of this ego-driven reply? Try and find new challenges in your company to keep yourself above the 20 yo's.

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Originally posted by Aino:
How old are you LKS???


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He's around 88 or so, but he still likes teen agers...BTW, your links suck..new haven dog lawyers goes nowhere, same for debtconsolidate.

Are you really 12, as your pic suggests?

He's around 88 or so, but he still likes teen agers...BTW, your links suck..new haven dog lawyers goes nowhere, same for debtconsolidate.

Are you really 12, as your pic suggests?[/QUOTE]

88?? he is awfully crotchity. it makes sense now!!! LOL

lolz!!! Please sir, just don't mind my links.. I know its out of this world, so I'm just askin' you to ignore it... Thanks!

Btw, I'm 22... ok... He's 88 already... He's too old... Sorry for that!


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88?? he is awfully crotchity. it makes sense now!!! LOL

Actually, I'm 54 (octal).