Journal OldHawk777's Journal: Do you get paid/compensated to much? 8
FCW Insider: Are feds overpaid?
By Christopher J. Dorobek
Published on July 2, 2008 - 08:10 AM
http://www.fcw.com/blogs/editor/153022-1.html
Are feds overpaid? Yes, according to the Cato Institute's Will Wilkinson http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/about/
Do I (what about you?) get over compensated/paid
My view: Compared to all politicians, C*Os, clergy
Well compared to almost all our Teachers considering public school conditions, our Warriors and FBI/CIA/... Field-Agents knowing their genuine patriotic commitment to US, Police and FireFighters every day life commitment to US families and folks, the wild weekend/holiday ER Nurses/Doctors/Staff, EMTs, extreme-rescuers, migrant farm workers
In some ways, I worry, if we did fairly compensate folks for the value they deliver to USAll (no that can't happen
I don't teach kids to be good citizens, my life is not the resource preserving "The USA Constitution", national security, our culture.... I am not committed to saving lives as a lifetime career. I cannot be sure, that I would put my life on the line to save the life of another person (definitely not a dog, cat...).
If given the choice to legally and honestly support my self/family as a migrant farm workers, or maybe drug-deal/murder/... for a really good (maybe dangerous) income that gives me and my family a good standard of living in a poor defenceless urban/sub-urban neighbourhood, I would probably be an apparently sociopathic criminal till I died.
Well, I guess, at worse I'll end up in the same hell as most of the politicians, C*Os, clergy
My value yard stick for the last 20 years at work has been how much do I $ave. Each year, I look at everything I do in a year that factually (in lump sums) saves money. Most years (not all), I have been able to identify four-times my annual compensation (overhead+pay). My best year was 25-times, I was assigned a complicated $8M (their estimate) IT/LAN/WAN project. In about 6 months (working alone on the technology side) I was able to drop the cost to a little over $5M, meet unit (SUN+Cisco nodal sites, servers, desktops, VTC, VoIP,
I'll retire soon, 5 or 10 years at most, what I have learned is I cannot improve management (2 of 3) performance. For politicians/management, C*Os, clergy
Anyway, my analysis of Dorobek and Wilkinson (they are paid far too much), they both need to find better ways, not the same old stupid blame-storming way
Underpaid is my life (Score:2)
Your writing style certainly seems chaotic. I'm not sure if this is intentional, though I can imagine it is at least partially due to your lack of formal education (writing university or college level essays, etc). I think I remember you saying that you didn't have any formal post secondary education. Nah this isn't a criticism, just an observation. I find your writing quite "stylistic" (for wont of a better word). It certainly has character to it. Don't change!
That being said, I have sometimes quoted the C
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Yes, my writing style is chaotic, not that I notice, I am just trying my best to express what I think and feel in an eliciting and entertaining manner. I do okay on the entertaining, but sometimes the eliciting, as in provoking, in others my state of mind and emotions fails totally. The purpose is communication/collaboration; Therefor, writing fails to convey all that I am thinking/feeling and mind-readers are drive insane when in my space.
It is never intentional to be chaotic, but my inability to complete
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I have said for years, because I as a child was always told I was wrong...
Me too, (and in many cases now it seems). I suppose that's why I started keeping journals long before it was an academic requirement for English classes (in high school). It's not merely a point of people challenging my ideas, but my memory as well. I even remember that when I didn't know the answer and I said "I don't know" the answer was not accepted, and this was only when I was circa five and six years old. Both teachers and my peers could be dumb asses in that sense. As is the case my peers would ask "
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To a beer drinking English teacher (I did take one English class) at the UnivSoAl, while we recited whatever came to our inebriated mind.
"All through my high school years, prior to coming here, my papers were destroyed with ink of red colouring. Circle were drawn upon, "X" made with sweeping strokes and small unreadable letters, perhaps a note."
I forget the rest, but yes ... pithy, seductive, insightful ... college English professors only have mild pleasurable sexual sadistic tendencies, never the cruel cur
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Sorry for the lengthy wait of a response. Over the course of a few days I was contemplating what you said, and elaborating on my own ideas so I thought they may be interesting enough to write down and share.
"Reality is self-induced hallucination." is a concept that I have long had. Perception is veiled by our genes and our experiences and that enigmatic thing we call intelligence. I remember "hearing" statistics on more than one occasion that the vast majority of people believe in ghosts and UFO's of extra-
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I am 55yo+. From your literature references, I suspect we are BB-peers. SH5, Cats Cradle ... In the 70's I had a friend named Alice (185lbs and 73" tall wiry looking with wild Irish red hair), she worked at Engels shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi, she said as a pipe-fitter. I always said, she was my Montana. She had a Harley, and so damn much money, when I first got to know her. I thought, she must be a drug dealer, she was not ... I never asked where the money came from ... never found out after a truc
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I am 55yo+. From your literature references, I suspect we are BB-peers.
I'm about 15+ years your junior. I'm always slow to catch on to things. TV-wise for example I probably watched more episodes of I Love Lucy or Gilligan's Island than I have of The Simpsons. I only started watching The Simpsons about 5 years after it started airing. I need to make an effort to start watching King of the Hill (which seems to be on its way to becoming a classic in and of itself, from what I've seen at least).
You understand "Reality is self-induced hallucination." as I mean it, that is impressive. Most times I say it folks think I am just talking about me or someone else, but I have always meant it for all us humans (dogs and cats too for all I know).
Thanks. What seems obvious to me is often quite difficult for other people to grasp, h
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As a point of interest and perhaps a bit of humour, I remember hearing on the radio that the producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest complained to one of his peers that the extras (who played the mental patients) never seemed to get out of character during breaks in production. He was subsequently told the extras where real mental patients that were borrowed from an institution.
To ensure my memory is correct I did a Google and found this quote:
The backdrop dream cast boasts Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers, along with various real life mental patients and their real doctor (Dr. Dean R. Brooks, who played Dr. John Spivey).
- http://dvd.ign.com/articles/037/037127p1.html [ign.com]