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Re: Unemployed Fishing

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Post by privong »

germinalphrase wrote: post #35
privong wrote: post #28

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> I must be weird. I find fishing, sunning on the beach, sitting in a lawn chair, etc., extremely dull, and last about 5 minutes at it. I'm the same way, but for fishing it depends on the type of fishing. Bait/lure fishing I tire of quickly. But fly fishing was vastly different, at least the one time I did it. It seemed a bit more technical and required more focus and finesse.

Fly fishing for trout is the standard, but I strongly recommended getting some poppers and trying for bass/pan fish. Same fly fishing engagement but more strikes.

> Fly fishing for trout is the standard, but I strongly recommended getting some poppers and trying for bass/pan fish. Same fly fishing engagement but more strikes.

Thanks, I'll see if I can give that a shot. I have a fly rig mostly put together, but I need to update the flies and get new line (it all belonged to a long-dead great uncle).

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Post by watwut »

shoo wrote: post #53
motohagiography wrote: post #47

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Thank you. I think the point of an undergrad degree is to produce credulity. My recent comment history has one about about how money is made, and that's the perspective I think young people should have. tl;dr: it's a scale of dependency, labour, time, skill, risk, capital, power. STEM people are not typically taught negotiations, sales, political science, marketing, or business and we're often given this conceit that…

> STEM people are not typically taught negotiations, sales, political science, marketing, or business Yup! > we're often given this conceit that we're above all that, which I think keeps us stupid and cheap. I was thinking along these lines some years back after finally realising that (i) I was underpaid; and (ii) I had no idea how to negotiate effectively; and (iii) that there are many opportunities in life to negot…

> The author's argument is roughly that the major part of graduate education is political: demonstrating that you can serve the interests of your masters and perform creative and intelligent work on the problems you are assigned, within the constraints you are assigned.

This is usually said as criticism, but I worked wit few people who could not above. It was special kind of hell.

Working with someone who can't serve interests of team, can't work on assigned problems somehow switching to problems nobody needs or can't fit into constrains we have is not all that useful.

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Post by chaseha »

acangiano wrote: post #18

I would invite everyone here to get into fishing. It's an amazing sport and pastime. I'm reminded of a monologue ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5zShnoU5GY ) by an Italian actor. It's called, The Story of a Broken Man. This is my, more or less literal, translation. This is the story of a man broken by power, commitments, and responsibilities. I've been thinking about how many years it has been since I've last gone…

Wow. Thank you for sharing that.

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Post by acangiano »

chaseha wrote: post #63
acangiano wrote: post #18

I would invite everyone here to get into fishing. It's an amazing sport and pastime. I'm reminded of a monologue ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5zShnoU5GY ) by an Italian actor. It's called, The Story of a Broken Man. This is my, more or less literal, translation. This is the story of a man broken by power, commitments, and responsibilities. I've been thinking about how many years it has been since I've last gone…

Wow. Thank you for sharing that.

Thank you for your encouraging comment. It motivated me to make it into an actual video: https://youtu.be/4aK6_0psCW4

Re: Unemployed Fishing

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Post by shoo »

watwut wrote: post #62
shoo wrote: post #53

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> STEM people are not typically taught negotiations, sales, political science, marketing, or business Yup! > we're often given this conceit that we're above all that, which I think keeps us stupid and cheap. I was thinking along these lines some years back after finally realising that (i) I was underpaid; and (ii) I had no idea how to negotiate effectively; and (iii) that there are many opportunities in life to negot…

> The author's argument is roughly that the major part of graduate education is political: demonstrating that you can serve the interests of your masters and perform creative and intelligent work on the problems you are assigned, within the constraints you are assigned. This is usually said as criticism, but I worked wit few people who could not above. It was special kind of hell. Working with someone who can't serve…

i can appreciate that: being able to understand and internalise the objectives of the team, org, etc is part of the job, when the job involves deciding what to do and tasks cannot be completely specified.
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