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Old 2003-12-24, 10:46 AM   #5
ross
I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES
 
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Well, i think my problem is my skin isn't thick enuf to be in this industry. I see my future in this bizness as 2 choices.

1. To be myself, a kind, caring, and compassionate person, and to post or respond on the board/boards from my heart, and help people with problems I have already experienced. Possibly and probably excuding any chance of networking with other webmasters cause no one wants to partner with a weakling.

2. To be 100% bizness minded. A cold, calous, uncompasionate person whos only goal is to make money and not care who I have to step on and use to get more of it. Webmaster's will then flock to me cause i can make money, and if I make money theyre gonna make money.

I have a hard decision to make. Do i be myself? Or do i be an ass?

I have banned myself from the GG&J IRC Channel due to this very question. Person "a" thinks I make stupid bizness decisions because the choices I make are founded in kindness, and compassion. My father ran a successful bizness from 1969 to 1986, the year he died. He was kind and caring and his employess robbed him blind every chance they got. But he always stayed kind and responsive to the needs of his employees. When he died I was only 16. Not old enof to run a company. So we sold it. May years later i was hard up and looking for a job. I went to my fathers company, where I had worked since i was a little kid, and was denied a job based on the fact that it "was" my fathers company and I couldn't be trusted to work there as a non-partisan employee. From that day till now i have sworn to be good, kind, caring and compassionate regardless of the situation and reardless of how much money it costs me. That is how my father would have wanted it.

With that being said, I am going to have to choose decision #1.

That is what he would have done, and thats what I shall do.

I realize that by posting this some will read, some will simply pass it by, and some, a very small minority, but some will appreciate the sincerty and truth of what I am trying to say. And hopfully give them strength to stick to their principles and do bizness with an open heart and not a closed fist.

That is all I have to say. I wish all a good holiday and try to remeber that the things that xmas are all about should be pratced all year long and not just for one day.

Thanks

Ross
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