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Joe · 04-27-2003, 11:09 AM

Ben its all quite simple. What pays the bills - my job. NOT procooling (infact my job in many cases pays PROCOOLINGS BILLS...). So, and sorry to be blunt, but ProCooling is a far second in my priorities to real life work that actually pays me, and other real life events I have going on. (infact I got done working a 23 hour day yesterday, and am heading back to work today - sunday- to pull another 18+ hour day. No overtime, no pay, just because it needs to get done and its my responsibility to get it done)

Maybe its hard to understand that someone who runs a website could also have a very serious and demanding job on the outside, but its true. Unlike most kiddie sites where they are run off either:
1. a Scam artist kiddie who has no finnancial obligations to the world and just scams goodies from everyone
2. a Rich kiddie who just gets all he needs from mommy and daddy
3. a Sellout geek who has sold his soul, ass, and website to big companies and turned the site into nothing more than an electronic billboard for advertisements to pay their bills

ProCooling is run by grown up professionals.. who all have real jobs, real families, and real life. Its one of the side effects for running a more mature site, is that the people who run it obviously have other things going on. Personally I prefer working with people who have some outside distractions, overall they are much more well rounded people... not just hype geeks like I see everywhere else.

I posted in my worklog that this stretch of a few weeks was going to be bad on the site... so this should be no surprise. In the near future I have more weeks like this coming up to, just how it is. My job security isn't in question much anymore, but I do run a fairly large technical team, who are working on a massive network that servers out number my team by a factor of 12:1, and workstations a factor of 400:1.

But in the end, all the work away from the site gives me chances for more pay, more job security, and overall more comforts in life. Where ProCooling it just gives me more people bitching if I get busy in real life...

So ... respectfuly, please stfu and understand that everyone on the site has a real life they need to attend to at times, and real bills that need to be paid. Unless your willing to pay up a nice salary to me with benifits = to a state gov job, I dont really need to hear the crying about shit like this.

(yes I am rather grumpy today)

04-27-2003, 11:09 AM	#10
Joe The Pro/Life Support System Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 4,041	Ben its all quite simple. What pays the bills - my job. NOT procooling (infact my job in many cases pays PROCOOLINGS BILLS...). So, and sorry to be blunt, but ProCooling is a far second in my priorities to real life work that actually pays me, and other real life events I have going on. (infact I got done working a 23 hour day yesterday, and am heading back to work today - sunday- to pull another 18+ hour day. No overtime, no pay, just because it needs to get done and its my responsibility to get it done) Maybe its hard to understand that someone who runs a website could also have a very serious and demanding job on the outside, but its true. Unlike most kiddie sites where they are run off either: 1. a Scam artist kiddie who has no finnancial obligations to the world and just scams goodies from everyone 2. a Rich kiddie who just gets all he needs from mommy and daddy 3. a Sellout geek who has sold his soul, ass, and website to big companies and turned the site into nothing more than an electronic billboard for advertisements to pay their bills ProCooling is run by grown up professionals.. who all have real jobs, real families, and real life. Its one of the side effects for running a more mature site, is that the people who run it obviously have other things going on. Personally I prefer working with people who have some outside distractions, overall they are much more well rounded people... not just hype geeks like I see everywhere else. I posted in my worklog that this stretch of a few weeks was going to be bad on the site... so this should be no surprise. In the near future I have more weeks like this coming up to, just how it is. My job security isn't in question much anymore, but I do run a fairly large technical team, who are working on a massive network that servers out number my team by a factor of 12:1, and workstations a factor of 400:1. But in the end, all the work away from the site gives me chances for more pay, more job security, and overall more comforts in life. Where ProCooling it just gives me more people bitching if I get busy in real life... So ... respectfuly, please stfu and understand that everyone on the site has a real life they need to attend to at times, and real bills that need to be paid. Unless your willing to pay up a nice salary to me with benifits = to a state gov job, I dont really need to hear the crying about shit like this. (yes I am rather grumpy today) __________________ Joe - I only take this hat off for one thing... ProCooling archive curator and dusty skeleton.