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Old 10-28-2006, 11:52 PM   #6
Undertoad
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If you wanted to do work that you found fufilling then you should have gotten the skills to do it while in college.
Guess what, I did.

You can take a course on management theory if you don't agree with what I'm saying. You might want to look up Theory X versus Theory Y management styles for a start. Understanding these very important principles made me a successful manager for a while.

By the way, you'll remember my words in about a decade when you realize that being smart and going to a good college entitles you to exactly

JACK SHIT

To get a sense of how this works, you might talk to all the highly-trained, highly-respected, and utterly unemployable nuclear engineers that graduated 25 years ago.
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