EXACTLY!!!!So your privilege is to do all the work?
EXACTLY!!!!So your privilege is to do all the work?
I can relate...the other half of my job, I have pretty much automatized. In case you're wondering why I've got so much time posting here, LOL.
I made the mistake of telling some folks I had found the job in which I could be happy till I died or retired. I was a sysadmin with racks of servers to babysit and I'm convinced that I jinxed myself.Some time half way through we went remote and home office, with me baby-sitting the server racks here at the data center, so all of the deskside support went away, which was half of my job. And the other half of my job, I have pretty much automatized.
See Price's Law and Lotka's Law. Half of all work in large organizations is done by the number of employees equal to the square root of the total number employed.So your privilege is to do all the work?
I've seen it in my work life. I've seen it in other organizations. It's happening at Google. It will eventually happen to Texas government and then to the U.S. at large.
I expect to be dead by then. I hope I'm that lucky.
It’s fun but I’m done. I don’t want anything to do with it unless it has to do with guns. My problem was if I wasn’t working on guns I was so bored. Also if say you program well and watch your offsets and toolwear and do your job running a machine...talk about a long boring day. When nothing goes wrong, it’s like mental suicide.I really wish I'd learned a trade, like welding or machinist.. something productive.
My gift is labor. Being physical. Doesn’t sound like much but for nearing 40 I’m in great shape and my ultimate goal is to have my own gun store/training center. Hire someone to teach gun courses and myself and another would handle hand to hand self defense. It’s also great for fitness. I love being active. I have seen a lot of people in various industries develop poor health because of not keeping active.
I’m a few years out but when that day comes I’ll include my search for people here. It is a selling point that an instructor be ex uniform. I’m not sure what people care for in that regard. It’s like mixed martial arts. I never got into a cage. I was trained by a great guy who was. His teachings and philosophy will carry into what I show others and the times I have had to defend myself, they played out well. I was ok and didn’t get hurt. But jui jitsu is the core. kick boxing is good for fitness but does deliver good skills to know.I keep pushing around the idea of getting some handgun instructor certs. I AM good at this. Just don't know what the income opportunities are. I've got no LEO or mil background, lol.
Or make coffee. You know I never was a coffee person. Maybe less than half a dozen times in my life. I just get up get water, food, get a little blood moving, and I’m off to work. I know very little about coffee. Lol. But most gun shops have coffeeIf you ever need somebody to just sit around & eat, I'm your guy!
I suppose the answer to "What are the income opportunities?" is "It depends." Back in the day, the first IPSC world champion demonstrated that you can have the most credibility in the world with a handgun and still crash and burn a training business if you're also total crap as a teacher.I keep pushing around the idea of getting some handgun instructor certs. I AM good at this. Just don't know what the income opportunities are. I've got no LEO or mil background, lol.
I have my NRA cert and I provide this sort of training as private lessons. It does not pay well.IMO there is a lot more need for firearms safety, maintenance, and shooting fundamentals training than there is tacticool training.
If the organization grows large enough, folks who run things, like a government agency or Google, will eventually lose sight of the day-to-day work people need to do and stop meeting those pedestrian needs. It's inevitable because they lose perspective on the real work; they're too far away from it. Whey they do, they begin to implement ideas that look good and important to them but, in reality, just screw up everything.
This is precisely the means by which the federal TLA I retired from was ruined.However, IMHO, a much bigger part of the problem - and if not the root-cause then pretty damn close to it - is too many leadership roles filled via the golf course or college-buddy network...