Lousy Engineer wrote: > I hope by the time this letter is read by those intended, I would [snip] Welcome to the world, the human nature and behavior world. There is a statistic that shows just 5% of the companies actual running, will be up at the end of 5 years period. Some people just fight and fight to keep their only one opened company, while statistically we know that you need to open at least 20 companies to just one make it right. The problem is not with the company, well, it may, product? price? timing? marketing? advertising?, but 90% of any company is people, and people are stupid, lazy, uncompromised, unresolved. This is why you need to try to build the best possible team of people, twenty times, and just one will do it right, and not for long, you need to nurture them, so they keep together and working proudly. Team work is a privilege, not an obligation or a demand. Team work only happens by friendship and objectives, not by rules or by money. Money NEVER created team work. Just look for some real examples. Rolling Stones is a live example, compare them with BackStreetBoys or N'Sync. Rolling Stones sing and play like teenagers just because THEY LOVE IT TO THE DEATH, they love the music and the show. They don't care about the money or the personal success in life anymore, do you think they still do? They all know that if they stop to sing, their life will have no meaning anymore. BackStreeBoys wanted money and success, they got it, and after that, blew up, there was no passion in the job. Feeling alone in the project is a signal of lack of team work, but unfortunately it happens a lot, mostly in the developing process. Millions of researches and gurus all around the world feel exactly the same agony and sense or helpless, that is extremely frustrating. As much complicated the thing comes to be, more and more frustrated you WILL get during the process, because less and less people will be able to help you, and much less will be willing to help you. That's life, and this is the world we live. Nothing is perfect, nothing will EVER be (except German engines and Brazilian girls - just kidding). We will never be able to get even close to be a super-man, solve all the world problems, not even started to be able to solve our own inner problems. Many engineers know the tire project was faulty when released, the transmission is weak for the engine power, the suspension can cause an accident, the electronics have a weak point and the circuit is not enough protected against water spill or the wires can be cut under the seat and start a fire. Many engineers take few days without sleep just thinking about the damages due their lack of ability to solve such problems. How many times a surgeon think he could do something better in yesterday surgery, and the patient died. How many nights of insomnia a fireman experience just because he "thinks" he made a bad decision of go right when going left he could save an extra life? That's just life, nothing else. During many years I worked alone, my own company, desperately wishing to have a partner to share thoughts, problems, decisions, technical and business decisions. After I started to get people into the company, the right people, the right team, I realize those decisions still being decided by me, nobody else. I just have a good team working for me, now my decisions also can affect them. When in doubt, take a beer, walk in the park, go home, choose a good movie, bring a new playstation game and play it with the kids for hours, take a shower, shave, have an air cut, have that juice fat steak for lunch, buy a new shirt, buy that new tool you are wishing for weeks, buy a new computer, take care of the lawn, cut some tree branches, fix that leaking fawcet, waste some time with simple things that can reassure you are just a simple person that can solve simple tasks. This is what paves the great steps we can do in life. Wagner. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.