Right on Schedule
I have no idea if this blog thing is suppose to be updated everyday, every other day or only when one has something they think is important to say....hence the 3 day gap between blogs.
I have spent the last two days of work at a management seminar.....Unnecessarily named: Project Manger Bootcamp... There was nothing military about it. In fact, there was nothing about managing people either. The whole 48hr experience can be summed up in one bullet point:
- Plan, maintain and achieve profitable jobs.
Yes, it is that simple. I know this because the 3inch thick binder I have weighing down my desk says so!!
My firm spent $8000 to send 8 of us to learn how to be project managers in a principle run firm. To tell the truth, they paid for it twice, if you count the money paid for our time and that's way more than 8000 bucks.
In all, I think it was a waste of time....lots of good points, but I didn't feel there was much reality in it. Let's face it, Architecture isn't a high stress job, there are no work place hazardous, no one is going to lose an eye from clicking away on the computer. Any case of an Architect living off disability is a fraud. Having made that point, Architects never want to retire, because of that, the good old boy system is now and always will be in place. So my firm paid good money for me to learn strategies and techniques I will never use because they have been doing things their way since the firm was founded back in -984b.c. and that's the way it is!
And now, Door #3
http://www.afternoonsinstereo.com/
All digital music is a reality. You don't need a whole band to rock the house....but you do need their instruments....at least to play every note on the musical scale once, record it, feed it into the computer and two jedi mind tricks later you get a sound that can't humanly be possible.
enjoy
DjD
I have spent the last two days of work at a management seminar.....Unnecessarily named: Project Manger Bootcamp... There was nothing military about it. In fact, there was nothing about managing people either. The whole 48hr experience can be summed up in one bullet point:
- Plan, maintain and achieve profitable jobs.
Yes, it is that simple. I know this because the 3inch thick binder I have weighing down my desk says so!!
My firm spent $8000 to send 8 of us to learn how to be project managers in a principle run firm. To tell the truth, they paid for it twice, if you count the money paid for our time and that's way more than 8000 bucks.
In all, I think it was a waste of time....lots of good points, but I didn't feel there was much reality in it. Let's face it, Architecture isn't a high stress job, there are no work place hazardous, no one is going to lose an eye from clicking away on the computer. Any case of an Architect living off disability is a fraud. Having made that point, Architects never want to retire, because of that, the good old boy system is now and always will be in place. So my firm paid good money for me to learn strategies and techniques I will never use because they have been doing things their way since the firm was founded back in -984b.c. and that's the way it is!
And now, Door #3
http://www.afternoonsinstereo.com/
All digital music is a reality. You don't need a whole band to rock the house....but you do need their instruments....at least to play every note on the musical scale once, record it, feed it into the computer and two jedi mind tricks later you get a sound that can't humanly be possible.
enjoy
DjD
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