mikesgroovin said:
LOL...you should've PMed me back with your thoughts. BTW....I'm 26, not 18.
-Mike
Whew... i feel a bit better now.
To think that i asked for career advice to an wet-behind-the-ears-18 year old sort of made me embarrassed but thank God you're not 18 anymore! lol... You seemed much more mature than 18 and threw me for a loop when i read the teens thread.... should have looked at the date posted.
mikesgroovin said:
The uneduacated responces that I see are somewhat arbitrary........I gave them once......hmmmm, well, we all did. You can't deny them the ability to learn a thing or two while they are here though. Thats a little selfish.
No and I'm not trying to deny them the chance to learn cuz like you and MB pointed out, we all started somewhere and made our share of mistakes as a kid. However, the BS postings that I am talking about is the kind of example that MB pointed out. It's totally lame. Just like the thread i read where a guy listed the PC specs asked how much it was $worth$. A member posted back saying ... Don't buy a PC ... build one! it's so much better blah blah blah...
I started out at a highly knowledgeable forum where several members inc. the MODS where extremely knowledgeable. Here I really miss having a core group of guys/gals that I can feel a sense of commraderie and shoot the sh*t about technie stuff or the latest going on in the technology scene. Besides CrazyBeans and a few others, there's very few who have a day-job as a techie or in some sort of IT role. And certainly you don't have to be a computer guy at ABC company to be considered knowledgeable... as I am not one myself....YET. I just want to be able to have some intelligent conversations about technology or the future direction of computers etc.
I'm about to take the A+ next week but ya know... the shit just bores the heck out of me... i wanna learn somethign new.... something MORE indepth than ... take cable A... plug into socket B... I'm glad people like CrazyBeans joined up cuz that's one more person to build up the core group of techies. There are a few others but we need more. The teens definitely outnumber the more mature ones (seems like) and I hope you're right MB, come fall time, i hope those rug rats are so busy studying, they'll hardly post here. That'll give us a chance hopefully to attract more techies. If the boards are filled with young'ens or BS postings like the ones MB and I pointed out, then how the heck are we gonna attract good techies and have them stay here?
I remember a while ago, we had a new member join "RoadRage"... seemed pretty knowledgeable... more than than the typical newbie that joins the forums... he made a few postings and hasn't come back.... although it's only been a couple of weeks.
I very much agree with MB's opinion that such BS postings are frowned upon and should be deleted. How is this forum going to develope a solid reputatin as being knowledgeable if the boards are filled with such BS postings?
At any rate, i do appreciate everyone listening to my opinion and letting me vent some of my fustrations.
And I did try to reply back to your PM Mike. but that dang PM message limits the length of the message and by the time i had typed it all out, it said too long... blah blah...and i had other things to do at work.