Some folks just don't care...
Had an interesting experience recently at the CG. I noticed our new neighbor had a beautiful, brand new Leisure Travel Libero B+. I wandered over and we started chatting out our rigs. Not being fam...
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I believe this is the natural thing that happens when we shift to a customer service based economy.
I started my career in IT as an infrastructure guy (networking, server admin, etc.) and am now on the programmer side of the house. Even in tech. heavy industries, we have a division of people who are super high need/demand end users who don't know about the broader technology. My fellow programmer absolutely does not get the infrastructure side, but can write great code all day long.
What I have learned is that most people just don't have the time, inclination or ability to learn "everything", so they focus on one or two things and pay for everything else. That's how you end up with people like the OP met. Money really is his tool of choice.
I just happen to be someone who has immense curiosity and grew up pretty darned poor, so I had more time than money. As such, I learned how to do trades work from metal working, to plumbing, construction, woodwork, auto mechanics and all sorts of other stuff in between. I do realize that is becoming more unusual though, because of the very first thing I said. We are a customer service based economy nowadays and people with knowledge/skills of the trades are at a real low.
Hey, that is just more value and job opportunity for me should I ever need it, right? :W
Jose
I started my career in IT as an infrastructure guy (networking, server admin, etc.) and am now on the programmer side of the house. Even in tech. heavy industries, we have a division of people who are super high need/demand end users who don't know about the broader technology. My fellow programmer absolutely does not get the infrastructure side, but can write great code all day long.
What I have learned is that most people just don't have the time, inclination or ability to learn "everything", so they focus on one or two things and pay for everything else. That's how you end up with people like the OP met. Money really is his tool of choice.
I just happen to be someone who has immense curiosity and grew up pretty darned poor, so I had more time than money. As such, I learned how to do trades work from metal working, to plumbing, construction, woodwork, auto mechanics and all sorts of other stuff in between. I do realize that is becoming more unusual though, because of the very first thing I said. We are a customer service based economy nowadays and people with knowledge/skills of the trades are at a real low.
Hey, that is just more value and job opportunity for me should I ever need it, right? :W
Jose
