paul@uofm-cv.UUCP (06/05/83)
Having seen a spate of ads for "computer professionals" in the Sunday papers and the net, I wonder what the general reaction to a certain kind of as was. For example, how many of you out there are in high-profile positions or visible to upper management, aggressive, highly motivated and the like? I am a little put off by the General Patton management approach, myself. How do those ads strike you, if you know what I am talking about? Is the real world really like that? I am in a cloistered, womb-like university setting where we don't have the profit motive to worry about (although I suppose defense contractors don't, either) and where we sometimes go for days or even weeks without maximizing the win. Sometimes I am a self-starter, though, and start to sweat when it absolutely, positivly has to work by tomorrow. Paul Killey Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng. University of Michigan Ann Arbor