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To cycle is to live dangerously...[
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 9:45:48 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 10/31/2017 9:39 AM, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 3:26:44 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 11:51:55 AM UTC-4, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 7:09:00 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: How is that job application going? Which one? I could get a dozen jobs were I to move from California. Since my wife won't go for that I have to watch Silicon Valley dissolving in the belief that you need a formal education to perform tasks that a technician could do. Abbot Laboratories hasn't called yet. They are offering half the wage that their position would require. Do you suppose that is a serious job or an "it would be nice" position? The electric car company to offer competition to Tesla seems to be falling apart now. They have advertised for engineering staff but never seem to hire anyone. They too have your really intelligent mindset that you need a formal education in order to screw everything you touch up. Several other medical instrument companies cannot even read my resume because the headhunters will not submit a resume of someone that hasn't worked in three years. Again you cannot perform simple duties without a formal education. Sounds like the places you've applied to want a formal education. That's not illogical, you know. Yes, you tell us (and probably them) that you are wonderfully smart and a high-performing worker. But they may reasonably suspect that if you never earned a degree, you're not as smart or as motivated as you claim. Yes, I know there are exceptions. But based on what you say here, you're no Bill Gates. Where did that get you again? :-) It got me a very interesting and satisfying career, lots of respect, opportunities for interesting travel, and a good retirement in a desirable community. I've had (and still have) opportunities to contribute to the community. I've provided well for my family. And hey, I can even afford ground beef! - Frank Krygowski Bill Gates? Let me guess - you think that he a Jobs were technical people. :-) You should learn to stop guessing. And you should learn to stop making exceedingly evil statements. Some woman using welfare stamps at the cheapest place in town YOU would advise to find a cheaper store so that she wouldn't have to pay as much for ground beef. And you assumption that she will just come over the next day and buy more of whatever she wants. Frank, there is something wrong with you. You do not seem to know what the world is really like. Are you living in a bubble? |
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On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 12:38:29 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 11:58:55 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote: On 10/31/2017 11:44 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 10/31/2017 9:35 AM, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 1:07:53 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:47:01 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 9:32:05 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 8:51:55 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 7:09:00 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 9:59:00 AM UTC-4, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:00:37 AM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote: On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 8:36:50 PM UTC, wrote: snippy snip snip There are very few jobs in which you could make more than I was making at the height of my career. Then you must have made some really bad decisions, based on your complaints about your present life and finances. more snip I happen to know a few other people who have suffered crippling accidents. Financial and psychological devastation is the rule and the mere fact that Tom is able to compose in English and plunk a keyboard at all is miraculous. Even without brain injury, a year or two horizontal ruins lives more often than not. Ping Tom -- when did you have your concussion, and which fall caused it? I was never clear on that. I know Tom had several fork failures, but then he had a succession of crashes -- I recall he hit a wall at 25mph, but I don't know if that was a fork failure. I thought all this misfortunes were post-retirement. I'm telling you, retirement is dangerous. Don't do it Muzi! Dec 18, 2009. It was an IRD carbon fork. It had an aluminum head on it and the carbon legs were glued on and then after initial assembly they were riveted on to hold them together until the resin set. They followed American law and never advertised in the US (though all over the Internet) specifically hence they had no responsibility to have safe practices. The failure on the fork was that one side finally failed at the rivet because it had never been glued at all. The ER and several neurologists were unable to understand why I seemed to be dazed and uncommunicative for most of the time. In fact I was having almost continuous micro-seizures and major seizures a lot. Finally I had one in front of my best friend's wife who was a nurse and knew what it was. They took me to Stanford Cancer Center because the other doctors all said I must have some sort of brain cancer since there wasn't anything else possible. Stanford gave me a clean bill of health and recommended a professor of neurology who has a small practice at Palo Alto Medical Center down the street. I saw the lights come on again about mid-2011. It took two years to be fully lucent. Another fork failed and dropped me into a large pile of dead leaves which cushioned me completely. So I didn't learn my lesson. Finally my Colnago C40 fractured a fork end in a high speed descent. Because of the fracture it would steer properly and I went off the road and into a ditch - a stone culvert which thankfully was only neck deep so my head didn't strike anything. But I was quite sure I broke every other bone in my body. As it turns out I broke nothing. But presently I have a bad ligament in my shoulder which is quite painful and may have been caused by the crash from over a year ago. I didn't have any pain for a half year. But the surgeon says that isn't unusual. He recommends physical therapy if I can ever contact them. But I am now off of anything carbon fiber forever. Steel is real and aluminum is light if uncomfortable as hell. |
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On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 3:34:56 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 12:38:29 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 11:58:55 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote: On 10/31/2017 11:44 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 10/31/2017 9:35 AM, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 1:07:53 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:47:01 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 9:32:05 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 8:51:55 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 7:09:00 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 9:59:00 AM UTC-4, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:00:37 AM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote: On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 8:36:50 PM UTC, wrote: snippy snip snip There are very few jobs in which you could make more than I was making at the height of my career. Then you must have made some really bad decisions, based on your complaints about your present life and finances. more snip I happen to know a few other people who have suffered crippling accidents. Financial and psychological devastation is the rule and the mere fact that Tom is able to compose in English and plunk a keyboard at all is miraculous. Even without brain injury, a year or two horizontal ruins lives more often than not. Ping Tom -- when did you have your concussion, and which fall caused it? I was never clear on that. I know Tom had several fork failures, but then he had a succession of crashes -- I recall he hit a wall at 25mph, but I don't know if that was a fork failure. I thought all this misfortunes were post-retirement. I'm telling you, retirement is dangerous. Don't do it Muzi! Dec 18, 2009. It was an IRD carbon fork. It had an aluminum head on it and the carbon legs were glued on and then after initial assembly they were riveted on to hold them together until the resin set. They followed American law and never advertised in the US (though all over the Internet) specifically hence they had no responsibility to have safe practices. The failure on the fork was that one side finally failed at the rivet because it had never been glued at all. The ER and several neurologists were unable to understand why I seemed to be dazed and uncommunicative for most of the time. In fact I was having almost continuous micro-seizures and major seizures a lot.. Finally I had one in front of my best friend's wife who was a nurse and knew what it was. They took me to Stanford Cancer Center because the other doctors all said I must have some sort of brain cancer since there wasn't anything else possible. Stanford gave me a clean bill of health and recommended a professor of neurology who has a small practice at Palo Alto Medical Center down the street. I saw the lights come on again about mid-2011. It took two years to be fully lucent. Another fork failed and dropped me into a large pile of dead leaves which cushioned me completely. So I didn't learn my lesson. Finally my Colnago C40 fractured a fork end in a high speed descent. Because of the fracture it would steer properly and I went off the road and into a ditch - a stone culvert which thankfully was only neck deep so my head didn't strike anything. But I was quite sure I broke every other bone in my body. As it turns out I broke nothing. But presently I have a bad ligament in my shoulder which is quite painful and may have been caused by the crash from over a year ago. I didn't have any pain for a half year. But the surgeon says that isn't unusual. He recommends physical therapy if I can ever contact them. But I am now off of anything carbon fiber forever. Steel is real and aluminum is light if uncomfortable as hell. Did you have to stop working because of your head injury? Are you still receiving treatment? Not to pry, but I'm wondering what the long-term effects were. I haven't had your experience with CF, but if I did, I'd probably quit riding CF forks, too. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:13:49 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 10/31/2017 6:11 PM, wrote: When I was a section manager I had six EE's working under me. None of them could handle the jobs and I was doing about half of the design and all of the programming. I was really dying to get qualified personnel. The company kicked the bucket and I went into the Human Resources office and looked to see who had actually applied - there were a dozen people perfectly qualified but whom the college degree holding human resources people did not present to me because THEY didn't feel they were qualified for my necessities. Yeah, some of these other engineers also didn't have degrees. So what? It was MY judgement and not that of a headhunter or a HR person to make that decision. I'm surprised that a section manager would have no input as to qualifications of people applying for jobs he would supervise. So am I. It was pretty much a standing policy that project managers, in the company I worked for, had the last word in who they hired. The theory was that in the event of a project failure that the manager went down with the ship so he ought to pick his own crew. We had a company in the U.S. that did solicit applications - "wanted 50 ton crane operator for work in S.E.A." They simply forwarded the resumes to us, I reviewed them and sent the applicable ones to the projects that required people. The idea was to make less work for the project managers. If he was looking for crane operators I didn't bother to send resumes for welders, for example. Some of our clients demanded certain qualifications - Degree in Civil Engineering with experience in constructing highways in primitive areas - while in other cases they relied on us to supply qualified people. I might add that the absolutely best qualified civil construction guy I ever knew was a hillbilly from Tennessee who's family moved to California in a 1930's. His formal education was extremely limited but he had gone to work as a bulldozer operator when he was 14 years old and had nearly 50 years experience moving dirt when I knew him. -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 11:07:38 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
Some of our clients demanded certain qualifications - Degree in Civil Engineering with experience in constructing highways in primitive areas - while in other cases they relied on us to supply qualified people. And speaking of Civil Engineers, lots of work that affects public safety requires a licensed Professional Engineer's involvement. Getting a PE license is far from easy, and if you don't have the relevant college degree (plus work experience) there's little point in applying. - Frank Krygowski |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:34:35 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote: On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 11:07:38 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote: Some of our clients demanded certain qualifications - Degree in Civil Engineering with experience in constructing highways in primitive areas - while in other cases they relied on us to supply qualified people. And speaking of Civil Engineers, lots of work that affects public safety requires a licensed Professional Engineer's involvement. Getting a PE license is far from easy, and if you don't have the relevant college degree (plus work experience) there's little point in applying. - Frank Krygowski Currently the National Society of Professional Engineers pamphlet "Education and Experience Requirements for the Professional Engineer" list a number of states that do not require a collage degree, but these states do require a significant amount of experience. -- Cheers, John B. |
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To cycle is to live dangerously...[
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 3:56:20 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
Did you have to stop working because of your head injury? Are you still receiving treatment? Not to pry, but I'm wondering what the long-term effects were. I haven't had your experience with CF, but if I did, I'd probably quit riding CF forks, too. I have absolutely no memory of the year and a half I spent from the concussion to my real neurologist medicating me. During that time I lost 42% of my body weight. None of the doctors I was seeing could figure out why because I probably wasn't remembering to eat. The grand seizures were destroying other memories but perhaps not permanently since as time goes on I can remember more and more. The initial medication that made me "come to" did not stop the grand seizures but they were the sort that you cannot remember afterwards so I simply had no way of knowing I was still having seizures. While at the doctor my younger brother told him I was still having seizures and he added a second medication and almost over-night I began to feel better. Because my weight was so low I had extreme depression and considered suicide but as I was eating like an ox that very soon went away. I still have people saying "Hi Tom" whom I do not recognize. Others I recognize but without any idea of where or when. The paper I wrote plainly shows that over the time when helmets went from zero use to almost universal use there was no change in deaths. There are only poorly documented statistics on injuries, but my experience with motorcycles tells me that head injuries on two wheelers are rare because it is a human reaction to protect one's head. So most head injuries are sudden and violent. I have spoken with Bell Helmets long ago as they were developing the first helmets and even at that time we discussed the fact that concussion tended to be worse than mild skull fracture and that perhaps it would be better to make helmets to protect from concussion first. But then when calculated there simply wasn't enough room for an effective helmet of such a type. And DOT got involved making standards that were for protecting the skull and not what was inside it. |
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