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I was a proud man!!!... long ago...
andy3055:
GlennSprigg, you just spoke my mind! Great post.
fourfathom:
For me, it's the joy of creating something new (I think of it as an art form), and the challenge and intellectual stimulation of solving problems. I used to get paid for doing this stuff, and I've been doing it since I was in elementary school. It's not just what I do, it's who I am.
GlennSprigg:
Wow!! (O.P. here)... I've been away from this forum (and other things!) for a few days now...
I debated at the time if I should have said anything at all... but the responses here have left me speechless! :)
As such... I will en-devour to answer people properly, after considerable thought... SOON!... :(
Refrigerator:
To be fair i don't even know why i come here, i guess i just like the community. :-//
I don't ever meet any people IRL who know anything about electronics (much less who are interested or passionate), so i can discuss it here with like-minded people. :-+
Having bad memory sucks, i've had bad memory for as long as i can (more like can't) remember.
GlennSprigg:
O.P. here...
I 'GUESS' what I was meaning about 'Once' being a 'Proud Man'....
Was not so much to 'put myself down', for what I 'used' to be able to Achieve, but the realization that I no longer
have that ability to 'contribute' & 'pass on knowledge' that I at least 'Think' I once had!!! But I don't Mind that!!,
as long as I was able to contribute something when & if I could over the years!!! I'm NOT one's everyday person!
My GREATEST joy years back, was in conversing with/helping newcomers/apprentices/work-experience even lads,
where I would lovingly teach them EVERYTHING I know. Whereby SOME of my 'associates', would 'admit' to actually
teaching them 'nothing', because 'Passing-On-Knowledge' meant that they would lose there jobs/necessity !!! :palm:
I NEVER ever thought that way, throughout the decades of my careers!! And people trusted/appreciated me for it!!!...
I THINK that is what I meant when I originally used the phrase... "I have no tickets on myself", to which a friendly responder HERE,
'joeqsmith' said he had to look the phrase up on 'Google'!!!... To be honest, I thought it was globally understood, but yes!, I NEVER
think I know it all, or even a fraction of that!, but there are SOME things i DO know/understand, that I have been known to 'SHARE' with
family/friends that I 'think' they would be better for 'knowing' !!! hahahaha... :phew:
My days are numbered... but I still have a seemingly unquenchable thirst for certain knowledge... Maybe I'm in denial about the inevitable,
and maybe it's just the lifelong "Quest for knowledge" thang!! I really don't know?......
I ONLY would like to FEEL that I've contributed SOMETHING!! over my decades. and I hope those I've helped over the years, remember!! 8)
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