@Caute_cautim wrote:
You appear to have a lot invested, I am sure they will do their best achieve to best result possible.
All they really needed to succeed is to be surrounded by a team of people that believe they could do the tasks ahead of them. So for me, it is not what I and my team have invested but rather what they can achieve with a little help and a positive work environment.
Back in 1993, when I started my first job in IT as a Sales Assistant, there were only a few people that thought I would succeed. Most told me negative things every day like, "You could never do the work I do." said an engineer and "Just keep doing your sales reports and leave that stuff to us."
The people that believed I could make it, did what they could to help. I learned how computers talk to each other starting in 1986 by building Amateur Radio networks using AX.25 protocol. Many at the VAR did not know how that could possibly apply to a business network.
After my workday doing construction from 1986 until 1993, I would come home and heat up a soldering iron used to modify commercial voice radios into data radios. I would edit ROM code in HEX and burn the edited EPROMS. These were needed to run on custom boards with Z80 processors that had two intergraded radio modems. One for the backbone and one for local access. When a node was complete it had to be installed.
That involved building UHF power splitters, climbing antenna towers, installing antennas and hardline coax cables. Like today, to find an issue you sometimes have to look at each packet. Frame tracing was built into every node. So as a carpenter, I learned how to frame trace.
None of that experience meant anything to the naysayers.
I am glad those days are behind me and look forward to helping as many as I can succeed wherever I can.
Paul
