Wagner, A few thoughts ... Your attitudes reflect my own. I've always said I was a great student because of my thirst for knowledge. However, I make a really poor employee because I'm so easily distracted by something new . It seems to me that many here share that thirst. I believe that's what makes this list so great. I think it is a truth that those who thirst for knowledge also love to share their knowledge. I work for a small company and, FWIW, I'm part of upper management . I see it everyday with new and old employees alike. There are thinkers and .. what's a good word .. drones. It is a fact that some people do not like to think. The drones come to the thinkers for answers and the thinkers rise to the top. OTOH, what should you say about a rancher on a 1,000 acre ranch in Montana ? He wakes up everyday, spends all day working under a huge blue sky surrounded by majestic mountains. Perhaps he doesn't know what the Internet is and could care less. He lives doing what he loves and it doesn't involve learning how lightning works. He just knows it's best not to get struck . Someday he'll die not having ever expanding his mind beyond the land that he loves so much. We do what we do because we love it. If someone chooses to sweep floors all his life and die with a broom on his hand, then so be it. I'll neither take pity nor look down on him. He'll die, perhaps content by his standards, but not by mine. It's those wankers and wannabes (love that phrase ) that live off the hard work of others all their life singing the same sad tune that really chap my ass . Eric On Friday, July 02, 1999 1:41 PM, Wagner Lipnharski [SMTP:wagnerl@EARTHLINK.NET] wrote: > Mark, if you re-read my post, I never asked his technical help, he is at > least 24 years old, with a maximum of 1 or 2 years of overall > experience. He needs 20 more technical years of heavy learning, hard > working and reading, before I would dare to ask him any help at all. I > was just polite enough to explain him what I was looking for, I never > asked him if the phone wire would work... I have experience enough to > know what will and what will not work. He intercepted my intentions > trying to shut down my plans. My line of questions was just to show him > that he knows nothing about it, and trying to get the direction to the > coiled phone line shelve... he failed in this job too. > >