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How many of you guys have actually had the guts to go for it? (1 Viewer)

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Patrick Bateman

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I mean to actually lay it down, and go for your dream at all costs. What happened? Tell us your story.

 
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You mean two chicks at the same time? Are you asking us if we've ever seriously tried to get two girls to do it?

 
My life's dream is to sit on my back porch, drink whiskey, and do absolutely nothing. If you'll pay my house payment and buy my whiskey, I have the balls to go for it.

 
Well, my feelings on this would be best expressed in a monologue by the victimized, yet resilient, Mary Jo Buttafuaco from the made-for-TV movie "Long Island Lolita: The Amy Fisher Story". "You think that I'm afraid of you, little Amy Fisher? Is that what you think? Huh? Huh? You think I'm just like a little housewife or something, is that what you think? Huh? Huh? Well, you take a good, long look, 'cause you just stepped into Hell, baby! I dare you to step onto this porch again, because if you do, I'll kick your little slutty ### across this town, you whore! Go ahead, shoot me in the head again, I dare you! I dare you! 'Cause if I spot your fat little pink face on my property again, I swear to God I'll take my two bare hands and I'll kill ya'! I'll kill ya'! I'll kill ya'! I'll kill ya'!

 
Assuming the OP was asking a serious question, I'll answer:

I listened to a ton of AM radio over the years - mostly news and news analysis. And later on I got into sports radio. The big sports radio station in San Francisco had a fantasy football hour every Thursday and I never missed it.

So about eight years ago, I can't find the FF show. I e-mail the station and say, "Where's the FF show?" I get an e-mail back saying that the newspaper columnist that used the co-host the show had resigned. The wife says, "You should tell them that you can do that show in your sleep." I e-mailed exactly that. About three weeks later, I get a call from Sports Phone 680's host Larry Krueger asking when I can come on the air and do do a tryout. I thought it was a prank call. I said "Any time." A few days later, I'm on the air at 9:50pm taking calls from people wanting to know who they should start this week.

I did that show for about four years until Kreuger got fired for making some questionable comments about then Giants manager Philippe Alou. I barely made any money at it, and I didn't have time to design a web site that I could pimp. While I never became the high-paid, loud-mouthed radio voice I'd hoped to be, our show was heard from Canada all the way down to Mexico. It was a blast. We took hundreds of calls over those years, and it was a lot of fun.

I always say that no one gets to the end of their life and regrets taking a chance on trying to make their dreams come true.

 
There was one time my fighter only had 6 hit points left, and this ogre rushed into the room. I could have run away, but he was carrying this bag of treasure goodies, and I really wanted it. Who knows what might have been in there? So I hung in and attacked. I rolled my 20 sided dice and missed, and my fighter was decapitated.

But I've always been proud of that moment.

 
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Assuming the OP was asking a serious question, I'll answer:I listened to a ton of AM radio over the years - mostly news and news analysis. And later on I got into sports radio. The big sports radio station in San Francisco had a fantasy football hour every Thursday and I never missed it. So about eight years ago, I can't find the FF show. I e-mail the station and say, "Where's the FF show?" I get an e-mail back saying that the newspaper columnist that used the co-host the show had resigned. The wife says, "You should tell them that you can do that show in your sleep." I e-mailed exactly that. About three weeks later, I get a call from Sports Phone 680's host Larry Krueger asking when I can come on the air and do do a tryout. I thought it was a prank call. I said "Any time." A few days later, I'm on the air at 9:50pm taking calls from people wanting to know who they should start this week.I did that show for about four years until Kreuger got fired for making some questionable comments about then Giants manager Philippe Alou. I barely made any money at it, and I didn't have time to design a web site that I could pimp. While I never became the high-paid, loud-mouthed radio voice I'd hoped to be, our show was heard from Canada all the way down to Mexico. It was a blast. We took hundreds of calls over those years, and it was a lot of fun.I always say that no one gets to the end of their life and regrets taking a chance on trying to make their dreams come true.
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My story is somewhat similar, only it was doing football writing online. I worked at it full-time for a year while drawing down my savings before I was first paid for my work (and that a whopping $5 + free subscription to the website). Took another 6 months before I got a regular gig, at $20/week. Another 6 months before I went full-time, at $2K/month + stock options (that turned out to be worthless). And another four years before I realized that I had a bigger dream of having a happy and financially secure family that required a different career path. And though there were some decisions during that time I'd like to have over, I remember those years as some of the happiest (and poorest) of my life.
 
jdoggydogg said:
Assuming the OP was asking a serious question, I'll answer:I listened to a ton of AM radio over the years - mostly news and news analysis. And later on I got into sports radio. The big sports radio station in San Francisco had a fantasy football hour every Thursday and I never missed it. So about eight years ago, I can't find the FF show. I e-mail the station and say, "Where's the FF show?" I get an e-mail back saying that the newspaper columnist that used the co-host the show had resigned. The wife says, "You should tell them that you can do that show in your sleep." I e-mailed exactly that. About three weeks later, I get a call from Sports Phone 680's host Larry Krueger asking when I can come on the air and do do a tryout. I thought it was a prank call. I said "Any time." A few days later, I'm on the air at 9:50pm taking calls from people wanting to know who they should start this week.I did that show for about four years until Kreuger got fired for making some questionable comments about then Giants manager Philippe Alou. I barely made any money at it, and I didn't have time to design a web site that I could pimp. While I never became the high-paid, loud-mouthed radio voice I'd hoped to be, our show was heard from Canada all the way down to Mexico. It was a blast. We took hundreds of calls over those years, and it was a lot of fun.I always say that no one gets to the end of their life and regrets taking a chance on trying to make their dreams come true.
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You're not foolin'. KNBR has a crazy strong signal.
 
jdoggydogg said:
Assuming the OP was asking a serious question, I'll answer:I listened to a ton of AM radio over the years - mostly news and news analysis. And later on I got into sports radio. The big sports radio station in San Francisco had a fantasy football hour every Thursday and I never missed it. So about eight years ago, I can't find the FF show. I e-mail the station and say, "Where's the FF show?" I get an e-mail back saying that the newspaper columnist that used the co-host the show had resigned. The wife says, "You should tell them that you can do that show in your sleep." I e-mailed exactly that. About three weeks later, I get a call from Sports Phone 680's host Larry Krueger asking when I can come on the air and do do a tryout. I thought it was a prank call. I said "Any time." A few days later, I'm on the air at 9:50pm taking calls from people wanting to know who they should start this week.I did that show for about four years until Kreuger got fired for making some questionable comments about then Giants manager Philippe Alou. I barely made any money at it, and I didn't have time to design a web site that I could pimp. While I never became the high-paid, loud-mouthed radio voice I'd hoped to be, our show was heard from Canada all the way down to Mexico. It was a blast. We took hundreds of calls over those years, and it was a lot of fun.I always say that no one gets to the end of their life and regrets taking a chance on trying to make their dreams come true.
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Interesting! No, wait. The other thing. Tedious.
 
A few years ago I essentially left a very secure and predictable job, moved several states away, and started a completely different career with no training whatsoever(sales). I did so with a wife and two young children(3 y.o. and 1 y.o.) in tow. I moved in july of 2008. 5 months later the economy tanked. It has not been easy. As a matter of fact, it has been pretty ####### hard. I wouldn't trade the experience or where I am now for the world :thumbup:

Update: When I posted this, I was on the bottom rung of the corporate ladder of a solid company. The company was bought by a Fortune 500 behemoth 5 months later, and I stuck with it. After busting my ### for a few years, I worked my self up to being an international corporate coach. Currently in the Philippines training an office here.

 
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jdoggydogg said:
Assuming the OP was asking a serious question, I'll answer:I listened to a ton of AM radio over the years - mostly news and news analysis. And later on I got into sports radio. The big sports radio station in San Francisco had a fantasy football hour every Thursday and I never missed it. So about eight years ago, I can't find the FF show. I e-mail the station and say, "Where's the FF show?" I get an e-mail back saying that the newspaper columnist that used the co-host the show had resigned. The wife says, "You should tell them that you can do that show in your sleep." I e-mailed exactly that. About three weeks later, I get a call from Sports Phone 680's host Larry Krueger asking when I can come on the air and do do a tryout. I thought it was a prank call. I said "Any time." A few days later, I'm on the air at 9:50pm taking calls from people wanting to know who they should start this week.I did that show for about four years until Kreuger got fired for making some questionable comments about then Giants manager Philippe Alou. I barely made any money at it, and I didn't have time to design a web site that I could pimp. While I never became the high-paid, loud-mouthed radio voice I'd hoped to be, our show was heard from Canada all the way down to Mexico. It was a blast. We took hundreds of calls over those years, and it was a lot of fun.I always say that no one gets to the end of their life and regrets taking a chance on trying to make their dreams come true.
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Thank you! This is what I'm talking about!
 
I have rolled the dice a few times and it's always worked out great for me.

I quit a $65K a year job as an Engineer to sell sports cards. I had the time of my life with my company (Mounds of Cards). At the height of the sports card boom, my partner and I had 18 other people sorting cards in Escondido and Tijuana. With these crews, we would routinely break about 20 cases of cards a week (about 200,000 cards) for resale. We charged so much less for the cards we sold, we eventually would just roll up to the show and sell all of our product directly to the dealers without ever having a table. Then we would take most of that cash and buy cases of what we would break starting the next day. We sometimes would jump on planes, fly to a city with just a wad full of money and buy and sell cards and then jump back on the plane and go home. We had no schedule, no real rules and was living the dream. We spent a lot of time seeing sports, drinking beer, betting on horses, swimming laps and living the dream. Until this market crashed, I would have said this was the best job in America. The day I exited, I had paid off all my student loans, my car, and was closing a deal to sell my entire collection of cards (over $250K Beckett value) for $20K. I knew when people stopped buying from us, the world was going to crash down hard in this space. I did hold back a 5,000 count of miscellaneous Michael Jordan cards and some great memories.

I went back to the government after the sports card business died and positioned myself to run the missile shops. Mind you, nobody under the age of 50 ever had this job and especially not an engineer that never worked on the floor. Regardless of what engineering project I had assigned to me, I also would find time to get to know everyone in that shop. I helped them solve a myriad of problems. I would argue their causes to management, etc. I got super efficient at analyzing data and finding and solving problems to keep these guys out of trouble. This usually meant working a tireless schedule because I wasn't really suppose to be doing these things so a lot of it was done off the clock. When the main guy stepped down, the entire workforce told his boss that they needed to hire me. That too was a dream job in that I ran the West Coast production of Standard, Tomahawk and eventually Air-Launched Missiles for the Navy. There was immense satisfaction in doing this job. Talking to ship COs, creating a super efficient shop producing the best quality weapons, etc. We were so good that the Navy consolidated the East Coast Standard Missile operations with us too. Of all the jobs I have ever done, this one probably got me the most amped day to day. From the day I took that job, I hit the ground running. The previous guy who did it spent most of his time in the ivory building with the other heads of Ordnance functions. I relocated to the shop floor permanently. I also jumped in and learned how to do every job within that organization (although I sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile). The next day I had a new gig in Arizona working for the Standard Missile Program Office. They replaced me with 4 different people and stalled me forever from getting the new gig, but I eventually left.

and now this gig where I quit my $90K a year situation in Arizona to launch FBG with Joe Bryant. We ran it free for a year and then rolled the dice. Hopefully we would make enough money to pay me as much as I was making with the government. But at that point I really did not care. I knew this was what I wanted to do. I had a vision to have the best fantasy football site. Hopefully others agreed with my vision, because I was doing this. I would figure out the profitability question later. I remember the day in July when we started taking subscriptions and the numbers were moving so damn fast through the PayPal account. I thought this was insane. Two weeks later I gave notice. Build it and they will come...but not in our wildest dreams did we think the numbers could be this big.

and despite those other two best jobs ever, I now would consider this to be the grandest of them all. I work with some of the best football minds in the country. We continue to push the envelope in this space and have led lots of innovation to help players win their leagues. We have contributed to massive wasted time in corporations everywhere (and that also gives we great joy). I am thankful for every day I get to do this. If it ended tomorrow, I would just smile and say thanks because it's been a great run.

 
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Trust me, from how you present yourself on these forums, I can absolute guarantee you he didn't hate you for your success. If you haven't noticed, you've got a list of people who despise you from your conduct on this forum that's gotta be a mile long. I keep hearing new stories, vicious stories, about your poor conduct. Sometimes it feels like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read someone who I've never paid attention to before that hates you. Its also interesting how when I hear some new rumor about the things you've done, the general opinion seems to be that its probably true. I don't see that with every leader. I've seen some leaders that are very very well-liked and its genuine. Not with you. People don't change. The heat you generate here in a leadership role is almost assuredly the same heat you generated with that supervisor.By the way, it also says a lot of interesting things about you that you vigorously defend yourself as having done everything right and it went bad only because of the new guy. And not in a good way.I do agree that you have admirers on this forum. I can see it. But its all, shall we say, professional and cold. I see people give you props for stock picks. Or for fantasy football evaluation. But if you haven't noticed, they pretty much stop right there. That's because those people see you as a valued resource but not a good person. They want the quality info you can give, they like the way you can provide leadership at times, but they don't like you personally.If you cannot see the massive rift between the posters in this forum, and you, Joe Bryant and the moderation team, and prefer to think of this whole experience as the grandest job you've ever had I don't know what to tell you.Maybe this fact will rattle your thinking a bit. Every FBG is ashamed of coming here. None of these people are going to tell the people they live and work with in their community that they visit this place and post here on a regular basis. That's how rotten this place is.
 
kaa said:
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Every FBG is ashamed of coming here.
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Speak for yourself.
 
:goodposting: Achieved my childhood dream of being a Pro Wrestler. Even got to wrestle one of my idols growing up (Ax of the WWF tag team Demolition)
 
Wait. A lot of this stuff goes over my head so tell me if I've got this right. Dodds is up in the middle of the night and writes a long winded parody, making a little joke of himself. Then Beej goes off like a rocket ship about this place before he's even had a cup of coffee this morning. And just as he had been teetering on the border of sanity lately, making a couple of jokes here and there -- he cracks and demands that Dodds and Joe self-nuke.

Is that it? Or do I just need a smoke to settle my nerves?

 
roadkill1292 said:
Wait. A lot of this stuff goes over my head so tell me if I've got this right. Dodds is up in the middle of the night and writes a long winded parody, making a little joke of himself. Then Beej goes off like a rocket ship about this place before he's even had a cup of coffee this morning. And just as he had been teetering on the border of sanity lately, making a couple of jokes here and there -- he cracks and demands that Dodds and Joe self-nuke.Is that it? Or do I just need a smoke to settle my nerves?
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I wasn't going to bother addressing it because it's sad and :goodposting: but if you hate it so much why bother trolling :goodposting:
 
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Then Beej goes off like a rocket ship about this place before he's even had a cup of coffee this morning. And just as he had been teetering on the border of sanity lately, making a couple of jokes here and there -- he cracks and demands that Dodds and Joe self-nuke.Is that it? Or do I just need a smoke to settle my nerves?
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Nope, that is spot on. Weird too because i also remember reading a Beej post in the last day or two and thinking "wow, guy is really mellowing out.". And then this. :thumbup:
 
kaa said:
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Trust me, from how you present yourself on these forums, I can absolute guarantee you he didn't hate you for your success. If you haven't noticed, you've got a list of people who despise you from your conduct on this forum that's gotta be a mile long. I keep hearing new stories, vicious stories, about your poor conduct. Sometimes it feels like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read someone who I've never paid attention to before that hates you. Its also interesting how when I hear some new rumor about the things you've done, the general opinion seems to be that its probably true. I don't see that with every leader. I've seen some leaders that are very very well-liked and its genuine. Not with you. People don't change. The heat you generate here in a leadership role is almost assuredly the same heat you generated with that supervisor.By the way, it also says a lot of interesting things about you that you vigorously defend yourself as having done everything right and it went bad only because of the new guy. And not in a good way.I do agree that you have admirers on this forum. I can see it. But its all, shall we say, professional and cold. I see people give you props for stock picks. Or for fantasy football evaluation. But if you haven't noticed, they pretty much stop right there. That's because those people see you as a valued resource but not a good person. They want the quality info you can give, they like the way you can provide leadership at times, but they don't like you personally.If you cannot see the massive rift between the posters in this forum, and you, Joe Bryant and the moderation team, and prefer to think of this whole experience as the grandest job you've ever had I don't know what to tell you.Maybe this fact will rattle your thinking a bit. Every FBG is ashamed of coming here. None of these people are going to tell the people they live and work with in their community that they visit this place and post here on a regular basis. That's how rotten this place is.
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I hate to be that guy but if you hate it that much why come back?
 
shadyridr said:
kaa said:
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Trust me, from how you present yourself on these forums, I can absolute guarantee you he didn't hate you for your success. If you haven't noticed, you've got a list of people who despise you from your conduct on this forum that's gotta be a mile long. I keep hearing new stories, vicious stories, about your poor conduct. Sometimes it feels like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read someone who I've never paid attention to before that hates you. Its also interesting how when I hear some new rumor about the things you've done, the general opinion seems to be that its probably true. I don't see that with every leader. I've seen some leaders that are very very well-liked and its genuine. Not with you. People don't change. The heat you generate here in a leadership role is almost assuredly the same heat you generated with that supervisor.By the way, it also says a lot of interesting things about you that you vigorously defend yourself as having done everything right and it went bad only because of the new guy. And not in a good way.I do agree that you have admirers on this forum. I can see it. But its all, shall we say, professional and cold. I see people give you props for stock picks. Or for fantasy football evaluation. But if you haven't noticed, they pretty much stop right there. That's because those people see you as a valued resource but not a good person. They want the quality info you can give, they like the way you can provide leadership at times, but they don't like you personally.If you cannot see the massive rift between the posters in this forum, and you, Joe Bryant and the moderation team, and prefer to think of this whole experience as the grandest job you've ever had I don't know what to tell you.Maybe this fact will rattle your thinking a bit. Every FBG is ashamed of coming here. None of these people are going to tell the people they live and work with in their community that they visit this place and post here on a regular basis. That's how rotten this place is.
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I hate to be that guy but if you hate it that much why come back?
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"Because he's needed here."
 
I am 36, live a comfortable life, married with 2 kids. I have come to the realization that my 20's would have been the perfect time to "go for it". Now if I did and failed I would put my wife and kids on the razors edge with me. I have a couple ideas that I wished I had tried in my early 20's but too afraid to now. It would effect my kids future and my 401k if I tried. I think the majority of people in this world are way more creative and industrious while they are in their 20's and are more risk takers then in the 30's.

One of my good buddies at NCSU started a car washing business. Started simple at first. Couple of girls cars in his apt complex. Then he hooked up with their sorority and started doing more cars. He then bought a portable detailing van with trailer and started doing it on site in parking lots and at work places. Then he gets the bright idea to approach car lots to do their cars. He gets in with Hendrick (?) (i think that is the big one in raleigh) and gets a contract for all his lots. Now he has like 5 crews and he just drives around in his truck inspecting the work. How he went for it was he dropped out of school to work full time, took out a monster loan on his credit card because no bank would finance his plan but now he makes probably close to $200,000 and does little work. He has since gone back to school and gotten his degree. I envy him for "going for it".

 
shadyridr said:
kaa said:
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Trust me, from how you present yourself on these forums, I can absolute guarantee you he didn't hate you for your success. If you haven't noticed, you've got a list of people who despise you from your conduct on this forum that's gotta be a mile long. I keep hearing new stories, vicious stories, about your poor conduct. Sometimes it feels like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read someone who I've never paid attention to before that hates you. Its also interesting how when I hear some new rumor about the things you've done, the general opinion seems to be that its probably true. I don't see that with every leader. I've seen some leaders that are very very well-liked and its genuine. Not with you. People don't change. The heat you generate here in a leadership role is almost assuredly the same heat you generated with that supervisor.By the way, it also says a lot of interesting things about you that you vigorously defend yourself as having done everything right and it went bad only because of the new guy. And not in a good way.I do agree that you have admirers on this forum. I can see it. But its all, shall we say, professional and cold. I see people give you props for stock picks. Or for fantasy football evaluation. But if you haven't noticed, they pretty much stop right there. That's because those people see you as a valued resource but not a good person. They want the quality info you can give, they like the way you can provide leadership at times, but they don't like you personally.If you cannot see the massive rift between the posters in this forum, and you, Joe Bryant and the moderation team, and prefer to think of this whole experience as the grandest job you've ever had I don't know what to tell you.Maybe this fact will rattle your thinking a bit. Every FBG is ashamed of coming here. None of these people are going to tell the people they live and work with in their community that they visit this place and post here on a regular basis. That's how rotten this place is.
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I hate to be that guy but if you hate it that much why come back?
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New here?
 
kaa said:
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Trust me, from how you present yourself on these forums, I can absolute guarantee you he didn't hate you for your success. If you haven't noticed, you've got a list of people who despise you from your conduct on this forum that's gotta be a mile long. I keep hearing new stories, vicious stories, about your poor conduct. Sometimes it feels like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read someone who I've never paid attention to before that hates you. Its also interesting how when I hear some new rumor about the things you've done, the general opinion seems to be that its probably true. I don't see that with every leader. I've seen some leaders that are very very well-liked and its genuine. Not with you. People don't change. The heat you generate here in a leadership role is almost assuredly the same heat you generated with that supervisor.By the way, it also says a lot of interesting things about you that you vigorously defend yourself as having done everything right and it went bad only because of the new guy. And not in a good way.I do agree that you have admirers on this forum. I can see it. But its all, shall we say, professional and cold. I see people give you props for stock picks. Or for fantasy football evaluation. But if you haven't noticed, they pretty much stop right there. That's because those people see you as a valued resource but not a good person. They want the quality info you can give, they like the way you can provide leadership at times, but they don't like you personally.If you cannot see the massive rift between the posters in this forum, and you, Joe Bryant and the moderation team, and prefer to think of this whole experience as the grandest job you've ever had I don't know what to tell you.Maybe this fact will rattle your thinking a bit. Every FBG is ashamed of coming here. None of these people are going to tell the people they live and work with in their community that they visit this place and post here on a regular basis. That's how rotten this place is.
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We knew you had issues - but wow...
 
Beleaguered Genius Psychosis: Once described as a "Napoleonic complex for the cerebral cortex"1, the patient has an overwhelming need for people to appreciate them for being as smart as they are in their own mind. Notable for making contrarian statements and bold sounding predictions about things that are out of their control, often with a long enough window that they can hide behind if things don't work out, and with a touch of martydom as they describe themselves as a rare and persecuted genius. Unfortunately for them, their deliberately contrarian and spiteful nature are exactly the problem with them getting the recognition they so badly need because even when they're right, nobody wants to praise them, forcing them into the dislikable character trait of bragging over their occasional successes. Their self loathing and refusal to participate in social norms often creates a negative feedback loop as they at first fail, and later refuse, to develop social skills. Sometimes misdiagnosed as depressive or even sociopathic, this defense mechanism is indicative of a deep seated need for external recognition of their intelligence that can never be completely satisfied. Treament is often slow and may be adversarial, as the BGP will reject therapy and refuse to acknowledge a therapist's expertise, or make themselves fell better with negative comments about them. The only hope is to identify the root cause of their need to be smarter than everyone else, and address a lack of social development which may have begun as early as the anal phase of development in children who were unsuccessful in toilet training.

 
kaa said:
David Dodds said:
sucked at diagnosing the test equipment failures). I did not want anyone to ever think I shouldn't be the guy running it because this was a dream situation. Had I not eventually got a really bad supervisor (ex-military guy who hated my success - He just seemed like he wanted to derail me, even though I was doing most everything right), I could have seen myself doing this job forever. Things ended pretty badly though when this guy decided to chew me out for 1.5 hours one day over a budget cut that I had not forseen (It did not matter that I already had a work-around 10 hours later and I ran the leanest operation by a mile).
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Trust me, from how you present yourself on these forums, I can absolute guarantee you he didn't hate you for your success. If you haven't noticed, you've got a list of people who despise you from your conduct on this forum that's gotta be a mile long. I keep hearing new stories, vicious stories, about your poor conduct. Sometimes it feels like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't read someone who I've never paid attention to before that hates you. Its also interesting how when I hear some new rumor about the things you've done, the general opinion seems to be that its probably true. I don't see that with every leader. I've seen some leaders that are very very well-liked and its genuine. Not with you. People don't change. The heat you generate here in a leadership role is almost assuredly the same heat you generated with that supervisor.By the way, it also says a lot of interesting things about you that you vigorously defend yourself as having done everything right and it went bad only because of the new guy. And not in a good way.I do agree that you have admirers on this forum. I can see it. But its all, shall we say, professional and cold. I see people give you props for stock picks. Or for fantasy football evaluation. But if you haven't noticed, they pretty much stop right there. That's because those people see you as a valued resource but not a good person. They want the quality info you can give, they like the way you can provide leadership at times, but they don't like you personally.If you cannot see the massive rift between the posters in this forum, and you, Joe Bryant and the moderation team, and prefer to think of this whole experience as the grandest job you've ever had I don't know what to tell you.Maybe this fact will rattle your thinking a bit. Every FBG is ashamed of coming here. None of these people are going to tell the people they live and work with in their community that they visit this place and post here on a regular basis. That's how rotten this place is.
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Ok, I got: Ad hominem attack, Rhetoric, Diatribe, Argumentum ad populum, and hearsay. Anybody get anything else?
 
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