Titles; was, Re: text-based Internet?

[Michael Reagan]

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Miriam Bobkoff wrote:

> this" I haven't got a handle on. Having to be reluctant to ask questions of
> the technogods on Web4Lib won't make it easier.

DO NOT GIVE IN TO THIS IMPULSE!!

Most of us are probably in the position of trying to "steal the trade" 
in one area or another.  The most liberating words we can say are 
"I don't know" and "will you help?"  

Yes, there are people who reassure themselves by putting others down 
-- that's THEIR PROBLEM, not yours.  Don't give them power over your 
actions, they don't deserve it.

Do I speak from experience? Of course.  In a previous job I stole the 
trade of systems programmer in an IBM mainframe environment.  No, I 
did not know how to build an operating system from the ground up, and 
I was not intimate with the internals of VM or VSE, but I learned 
enough to install and update a stable platform so the company's 
business could be done effectively.  Despite my myriad areas of 
ignorance, I was successful.  Some of the supercilious gurus went 
through several job searches during the same period, but they knew 
more than I.

Ever learning, and striving to remain humble, which is another word 
for honest.

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