Preparing to Be Disconnected...Completely
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Who else has unplugged from work for any period of time? How'd you do it? Did you get outside help? are you a one man show? What were you doing that required you to unplug?
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@Hubtech said:
oh, and how the flying hell does this have anything to do with being disconnected?
How does talking about changing careers have anything to do with it? I was involved, and still am, in the converstation. YOu seem to be obsessed with leaving the conversation completely and discussing threading. This is utterly disconnected to the ongoing conversation that we were having.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
oh, and how the flying hell does this have anything to do with being disconnected?
How does talking about changing careers have anything to do with it? I was involved, and still am, in the converstation. YOu seem to be obsessed with leaving the conversation completely and discussing threading. This is utterly disconnected to the ongoing conversation that we were having.
No the topic drifted significantly and then hit on your sore spot of the uselessness of college and you went down a well trod path that you had no need to bring up again in this thread.
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@MattSpeller said:
Uh... every time I go to a doctor. Isn't that how Jobs died?
By most measures Canada does not even get the best ones here because we don't pay them enough.I know few people with that experience. Although it is completely different between the US and Canada.
As someone left to die with a ruptured appendix by a doctor who couldn't be bothered to look at the obvious symptoms I'm pretty sensitive about how doctors are allowed to override patient diagnosis. But nearly everyone I know uses doctors (in the US) purely as a gateway to needed care, not to skills or knowledge.
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Of note, the OP has not been in this thread for 2 days.
Other people brought up the subject when they should have made a thread about it.
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I also need a CPAP, as an example. I can't get that without a doctor getting paid to say I can have it. I've needed it for a decade. It is just an air compressor. But to make a few extra bucks for doctors the FDA labels it as a "drug" classification and makes it illegal to purchase unless you get it by prescription!!
Once you make a CPAP a controlled substance, the degree of corruption in the system is out of control.
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@JaredBusch said:
I do not know a single engineer that has not been through the engineering program at 4 year school.
You are mixing what you DO do, to what you CAN do. I don't know anyone running a hotel that doesn't have a hospitality degree.... but it is far easier to do it without one. Yet the people that motivated so rarely stay in that field that you almost never see it.
If anything, I suspect it is easier today not harder. The idea that college is needed for everything is often repeated and to a point that for many, many fields no one attempts the alternative. But that doesn't mean that the alternative isn't there.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I also need a CPAP, as an example. I can't get that without a doctor getting paid to say I can have it. I've needed it for a decade. It is just an air compressor. But to make a few extra bucks for doctors the FDA labels it as a "drug" classification and makes it illegal to purchase unless you get it by prescription!!
Once you make a CPAP a controlled substance, the degree of corruption in the system is out of control.
For once I 100% disagree with you! CPAP should absolutely be a controlled device. If I needed to use one I'd want to know that it was designed by a competent engineer who has his license and reputation on the line. No different than a pacemaker in my book and my degree showed me how they hold the engineers responsible. If you design and manufacture a medical device you can be held legally liable for a very very long time for the device's safe operation.
Edit: as to having to get a referral, I also disagree with you. I think they're quite necessary (though damned annoying). Not everyone cares enough to educate themselves on these devices and many would make very poor choices. That's not even getting into Münchhausen cases etc.
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I guess we are going to have another locked thread?
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@Hubtech said:
Who else has unplugged from work for any period of time? How'd you do it? Did you get outside help? are you a one man show? What were you doing that required you to unplug?
I just unplugged for 3 and a half days. The first time I have been able to do it. The world did not end my team is awesome and covered for me. Having an awesome team is what made it possible! Also where your focus is makes it possible. We are pretty good here in my house at keeping family first. They always get my attention when needed work comes second.
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Keep in mind most things that other think are emergencies really aren't as much of an emergency is they think it is. I have someone on my team who makes everything an emergency and have learned to ignore it. When everything is nothing is...
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@Minion-Queen said:
Keep in mind most things that other think are emergencies really aren't as much of an emergency is they think it is. I have someone on my team who makes everything an emergency and have learned to ignore it. When everything is nothing is...
That seems to be the most common problem.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Keep in mind most things that other think are emergencies really aren't as much of an emergency is they think it is. I have someone on my team who makes everything an emergency and have learned to ignore it. When everything is nothing is...
That seems to be the most common problem.
In the US we are conditioned to this our jobs own us. Umm no they don't. Getting that mentality in place when you find a company to work for and getting them to understand that time off is jus that, might not be easy but it should be.
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Oh we have clients who do this as well. It usually takes months to get them conditioned to react calmly when they do then we get things done more quickly and efficiently.
