[net.kids] Time with the family

bob@sdcsvax.UUCP (Robert Hofkin) (05/24/84)

I saw this in a trade rag this week:

Xenix Product Mgr. Exits Microsoft

Microsoft Corp.'s Xenix operating system...is currently without a
product manager following the recent departure of John Ulett from
that post.

Microsoft is now searching for a successor to Ulett, who stepped
aside into a support and training position because, he said, the
high-powered Xenix job left him no time to spend with his family.

... or is that just an excuse?

--Bob Hofkin

pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins) (05/24/84)

	OK.  I'll bite the bait.


Hard as it may be to believe there are a lot of intelligent, competent,
technically-capable people who chose to limit their commitments to their
jobs.  They work their buns off from 8 - 6, then give their families and
other interests some of their energy.

	It's not unthinkable that someone could value his family so highly
that he was willing to take a support role at work in order to save some
of his energy for the people he loves.  My father did it 25 years ago,
when he realized he was spending more evenings at committee meetings than
he was spending with us.  

						Patricia Collins