Intern prep....
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There is a reason I'm still so close to so many of my former co-workers. It's just a great group of people.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Also, don't be afraid to challenge Scott.
Change that to be afraid NOT to challenge Scott. Although far less as an intern than a staffer, but the sentiment is important. We are an idea company, not a hierarchy. I get emergency technical veto power when pushes comes to shove, but if I'm arguing with you, that means I'm not in a position to put the brakes on - keep arguing. If you have a good point, it should be defensible.
This is one of the things I've definitely noticed and appreciated about you. While others might see you as beating a dead horse, if you're still talking it's because it's clear that either your points aren't understood, or the other person is making points that might be changing your position.
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@Dashrender thanks! I hope that is what I am doing. Sometimes I wonder if I'm beating a horse too
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender thanks! I hope that is what I am doing. Sometimes I wonder if I'm beating a horse too
It's true.. sometimes the other wise just won't listen when they've clearly made a logical mistake, or more likely an emotional decision they don't want to fess up to.
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I assume that some of it too, is that there IS a dead horse being beaten. To anyone who pays attention, the same conversations, the same reasoning is repeated over and over again. But the person who is at the center of the discussion is either "new" to wherever it is taking place or just hasn't paid any attention and isn't aware of how often the same things are said over and over including, very often, the same tired points that they make. They could easily look up other threads to see how other people made those same points and they were discussed and they didn't come out as the valid points. But they don't.
So to the people involved in the discussion directly, it's a new discussion (more or less, one can argue the semantics of ignorance) while to the bulk of the observers it is a dead horse being brought back for another beating.
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I hear you. Though reading through the countless threads here or elsewhere is time consuming. So most people just want answer to their question, regardless to the fact that it's been asked 100+ times before.
No real good easy answer for that problem.
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@Dashrender said:
I hear you. Though reading through the countless threads here or elsewhere is time consuming. So most people just want answer to their question, regardless to the fact that it's been asked 100+ times before.
No real good easy answer for that problem.
There isn't. It is just really hard to get people who do read all of those threads to them figure out how to handle see it for the 101st time. Do you berate the OP for not reading anything, ever? Do you link to the list of conversations that have come before? Do you jump in? Do you see the whole thing as the dead horse problem?
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Exactly - if you berate them, you just end up hurting the community. But because people don't like to post the same information over and over again, you often get techs who are burnt out and give up on a site (kinda like I have for SW).
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@BMarie, when people are waffling on about RAID arrays and you have no idea what they are talking about, here is a pictorial guide that I found a few years ago.
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You probably won't need to know about this from day one but you might like it for reference later on. -
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@Hubtech said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
Seems like the nature of Interning is that you don't need to do very much prep for it.
That was my thought
she's just excited. Just have an open mind, and be honest if you dont understand anything. probly a pretty good group of folks to intern with.
Yes I'm very excited! Just want to make sure I am prepared to learning more.....if that makes sense to be prepared for the unknown
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