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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (51558)	6/20/2009 4:24:22 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219500

How not to lose a career to automation. Experts are blind to the realities surrounding them. They view themselves as the center of the universe, see themselves as unreplacebale, an one day a 500 dollar PC, with a USD5K SW send them into redundancy. Worse! A Mexicano with unfinished high school operating a USD150K machine will do the job of ten of them!!! The expert earns too much money. Has a self view of grandeur and usually makes his employer suffer. It provides the opportunity to automatize the job and send the expert into the unempployment queue. That because the expert is, from one day to another, a 40 year old apprentice competing with the 18 year olds who are hungrier. Have more energy. Have no mental blocks to learn from zero. In cultural shock the ex-expert now apprentice revolts against the automation that threw him form his pedestal.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (51558)	6/20/2009 4:32:48 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219500

A dropout do not suffer the problems of the expert. He is always learning. Learning is part of his life. So any new technology or method that appears in front of him is not seen as a thread. It is an opportunity to leave the high-salaried experts behind. I learned hard microwave and Frequency Division Multiplexing becoming an expert in both. Thirteen years of that experiency went down the drain as digital technology came in. I learned PCM, PDH, SDH and fiber optics and management platforms that handles all that. nd I learned how to coordinate all that (Money, technology people) job to achieve a result. All because I am willing to learn anything from ZERO. That needs brains. Hard work. Brains and hard work is difficult to find. It is a rare commodity to find a guy who's got both.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (51558)	6/20/2009 4:41:58 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219500

I have no sympathy for the displaced worker. I see it a social Darwinism. The survival of the fittest and adaptable. The loss of a high paid job here. is the gain of the purchaser of that product or that service. The economy does not exists to provide jobs. But to provide goods and services. The employee is a cots of doing business. (Man I am no material for a director of HR dept., I can tell you!) We, hands, Brains, attitudes and legs plus our knowledge are just a package that has to be added to a given economic operation. We don't join to be pampered. We join to provide an output. If that output is no longer needed we have no reason to be there. It falls on the worker himself to see what is he there for and react to events to protect his value. But what we see are companies subject to market realities employing workers who do not want to be subject to those realities. See US automakers to know what I am talking about. Companies instead of throwing the cold water on employees, do the opposite. They attempt shelter them! To isolate them from their problems This is why HR depts are always talking nicely and do not talk straight until it s time to receive the boot in the backside. I am a savage capitalist.