john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) (01/02/90)
Since I made my little aside about Capt'n Crunch, my mailbox has
overflowed with people informing me that Capt'n Crunch and High Rise
Joe are not the same person. I KNOW that. I know the Captain
personally and have long known about High Rise Joe.
My comments were a response to Andrei's mention of someone who had
been in Moscow, done time in jail, and used a "special sound
generator". That fits Capt'n Crunch; I was unaware that High Rise Joe
had been in Moscow.
Thanks for all the cards and letters, but I'm not that far out of it,
yet! Sorry if my mention was ambiguous.
John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395
john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !cdc@uafhcx.uark.edu (C. D. Covington) (03/02/90)
Patrick, I'm looking for some general assistance as a new telecom consultant. Let me get right to the point. I have been a professor here at the University of Arkansas for the last five years but am not making tenure. I grew up here in Fayetteville and would really like to stay here with my family, so I have looked to telecommunications and business computing as possible career paths. I can stay until May 1991, so I have adequate time to contemplate a career transition. I did have several telecom courses under Dr. John Bellamy while I was at SMU and have recently renewed acquaintance with him. I will also be at Interface '90 Plus in Dallas next week. Perhaps when you respond, I will not be here to see it immediately. Well, all this to say that I need guidance from any and all sources as to the approach I should take to establish myself as a telecom consultant. I have contacted major local companies with nominal initial success (promise of small retainer). I have ordered about $500 worth of stuff from Telecom Library. I have made friends with a fellow involved in selling SDN. I'm learning alot about LANs, WANs, etc. I have been reading this newsgroup intensively for about 2 months. My past experience has been in speech recognition, speech synthesis, general digital signal processing, etc. I have attended ICASSP (Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) since 1983, but will shift to telecom conferences now. I know theory cold, I'm learning product/service knowledge, but I know very little about starting a telecom consulting effort from zero. What is your advice to me and/or what resources should I turn to that I have not already identified? Thanks for listening to me ramble on so. C. David Covington (WA5TGF) INTERNET cdc@uafhcx.uark.edu Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering (501)575-6583 campus office University of Arkansas 575-5379 research office Fayetteville, AR 72701 575-3041 research lab [Moderator's Note: How did the story go about the man standing on the street corner in New York City with a violin in a case? I think someone walked up to him and said "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?". The man answered, "Practice. Practice hard. That's the only way." There is a goldmine waiting for consultants who not only know *what* to sell, but also *how* to sell it and to whom. I put your message here in the hope that some of the successful consultants among our readers will reply to you, and the Digest with tips. Maybe some of you will write and explain how you got in this business, and what you have done to succeed and develop a client base. PT]