From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m14isw6uev.fsf@void.com...   
      
   A crucial point which had been in mind and I didn't mention:   
      
   I have to be "a happening person".   
   Someone it is for others to want to engage with.   
      
   In a declining economy ("Project Ukraine" has made any previous woes   
   many-fold worse) I see retrospectively it has been futile being   
   "nice-guy" foot-slogging around companies - without being that strong   
   happening person.   
      
   If I am to have anything, I have to recognise my strengths and abilities   
   clearly and get doing a lot of those things.   
      
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   I became the go-to person for challenging tasks by solving difficult   
   problems, unproven claims on my resume meant nothing, even that I wrote it   
   on a computer I had designed, built and programmed. Likewise a little bag of   
   home-machined parts lit up the interviewing engineers more than any written   
   claim. Perhaps you could have your business card laser-etched on thin   
   stainless and rim one or two with a neat TIG bead.   
      
   I was very impressed by your bridge success, though an interviewer might see   
   less of the justified complaining about the inspectors. I wouldn't want to   
   be hired for ability to negotiate with unions, I saw how that affected my   
   father and brother.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)