How good are you at your job?

[Varaj]

Just curious how people rate themselves?

[doc]

Depends on what type of job I'm doing, but overall I give myself a 8.5 out of 10, not a top expert but can fake it enough till I can call Le Boss

[PWD]

I'm very good. I know there are subhumans who are better, but I can converse with average humans, and I bathe. Those are my selling points.

[Limper]

I'm damn good at what I do... I'd have to be to stay employed since between having a strange sense of humor and dicking around online all day its hard for me to understand why I still have a job most days.

[doc]

I'm very good. I know there are subhumans who are better, but I can converse with average humans, and I bathe. Those are my selling points.

So you're a highly evolved CM huh ?

[Limper]

I asked the guy in the cube next to me and he said... "dude they keep you around for what you know not what you do."

He has a point... I know who is sleeping with who, I know know who is on drugs and where they keep thier stash, I know where they keep the files on everything thats not supposed to be going on and I know all the mistakes and how much they cost.

[doc]

I asked the guy in the cube next to me and he said... "dude they keep you around for what you know not what you do."

He has a point... I know who is sleeping with who, I know know who is on drugs and where they keep thier stash, I know where they keep the files on everything thats not supposed to be going on and I know all the mistakes and how much they cost.

So when they find you dead in your cublcle with a staple in you brain the whole office is suspects ?

[FeatsofClay]

I represent 32 artists, 6 with exclusive contracts. And all in a town with less than 11,000 people.

I am the only person uner 50 to have my glaze research presented at a glaze conference that has been meeting since 1894. My first international solo show was in Israel at age 22.

I am doing it the hardest way possible and winning. Check in for my charred corpse anytime you wish. :D

[Limper]

So when they find you dead in your cublcle with a staple in you brain the whole office is suspects ?

Yep its like having insuarance.

[doc]

I represent 32 artists, 6 with exclusive contracts. And all in a town with less than 11,000 people.

I am the only person uner 50 to have my glaze research presented at a glaze conference that has been meeting since 1894. My first international solo show was in Israel at age 22.

I am doing it the hardest way possible and winning. Check in for my charred corpse anytime you wish. :D I'm glazeing over at your accomplishments ! Man thats great, and we knew you when too ! So do you still fire pots (wish I could have been there that weekend) ?

Yep its like having insuarance. Hope you have it all down on a diskette some where, you never know.

[TiQuinn]

I think I'm good at my job. As a developer, I'm probably only average. I'm not at all interested in pouring over code books all day, finding design patterns, making my code more elegant, or being one of those trolls who likes to post on Java forums all day telling others to RTFM. However, I get my work done on time, I get great feedback, and I share what I know with others in my company. As an architect, I'm still learning the ropes. I think what gives me an edge over others is what PWD mentioned: I can talk about the technology I work with with normal humans, either in a pre-sales role, or as an analyst, and give non-techies a very clear picture of the work being done, as well as come away with clear requirements for others.

[Limper]

Hope you have it all down on a diskette some where, you never know.

I have the files on the Clarion Unit... they are set to distribute to the entire company if I don't reset the timer once in a while.

Anything bad happens to me and ALL the sins will be known.

:D

[FeatsofClay]

So do you still fire pots (wish I could have been there that weekend) ?




Yeah, but not nearly as frequently. Working the gallery and the restaurant doesn't leave me a lot of time to throw. I recently doubled my proces (again) and I still can't keep more than a pot or two in the shop. It is odd.

[doc]

I have the files on the Clarion Unit... they are set to distribute to the entire company if I don't reset the timer once in a while.

Anything bad happens to me and ALL the sins will be known.

:D

Potent in the Monkey force you are.

Maybe after you get everything settled down at the Cafe etc. you can fire up a few more pots.......

[Limper]

Potent in the Monkey force you are.

Maybe after you get everything settled down at the Cafe etc. you can fire up a few more pots.......

Clay I think this was for you.

I hate our mail man he is always getting shit messed up.

[FeatsofClay]

Potent in the Monkey force you are.

Maybe after you get everything settled down at the Cafe etc. you can fire up a few more pots.......

Hells yeah. I still owe Quiet Jellyfish a damned tray. Without a deadline I can be damned slow.

Tonight I have to throw 20-30 mugs for a breast cancer fundraiser.

[doc]

What can I say, I just handle the delivery it's up to y'all to figure out what's what :)

[Limper]

Tonight I have to throw 20-30 mugs for a breast cancer fundraiser.

Will they be shaped like lumpy boobs?

[doc]

Are they the boob shaped mugs ? You know the ones that you can suck the nipple, used to have a pair, nice C cup but they were broken during a fight.

[FeatsofClay]

No, simple warmer mugs with pink ribbons painted on the side. We are having a "Thank you to my donors" party for one of my regulars and she wanted them.

[doc]

Bet some B00bie mugs with Save a B00bie !! on them would sell, gotta have the right market for em. Maybe at the local sports bar during a Mountneers game.

[Priss]

The job I was hired for, I'd say average. The job I actually perform, top notch (I got awards and commendations and they even created a position for this for me.)

[Varaj]

I've got a nice clock from a national award I've been given in my job. (Was for work I did on a standards body)

[Limper]

The job I was hired for, I'd say average. The job I actually perform, top notch (I got awards and commendations and they even created a position for this for me.)

Nurse Ratchet in Training?

[Harry]

I tend to rise to the top. In my current job, and in my last, I've been one of the best, and recognised as such. The jobs I could not excel at, I did not linger around.

[Priss]

Nurse Ratchet in Training?

Hahaha not exactly. Currently I get to do assisting about 2 days a month. The rest of the time I handling all the insurance crap, making sure 4k people are fit for deployment, ordering supplies and picking out everything for our new clinic (and i mean everything from cotton swabs to autoclaves, furniture to instruments) and somewhere along the way I became the commander's secretary as well.

[Sobek]

I'm pretty good.

My current position is the first time I haven't found myself at the technical top of the heap within the first year. Some of the people I work with are almost inhuman, though.

Still, I'm rising and starting to get some recognition as a go-to person for a lot of things. As with PWD, that may be because I can talk with mere mortals and understand basic hygene.

[Janos]

I lack the drive/raw ambition to be the very best in my field (which is extremely competitive and cut-throat), but have the personality and intutive skills to be very good at what I do. Couple it with some top notch training and I do very well for myself.

[GreyOne]

I'm union.

[Northcott]

I regularly get comments from art directors and people who work in/around the field that I'm one of the better/best they've worked with... but yet I remain in the crappy end of the payscale. I need an agent. :P

I had one fellow who was acting as an agent for a group of artists that he noticed something unique about my work: I can actually draw. Apparently that's rare in the illustrators who are flooding the market these days. I'm appalled by that. The current trend is to use shape, texture, and colour to create the impression of intent, and pass it off as a particular personal style -- but apparently very few can actually draw with any skill and fall apart without computer tech to enhance their work.

[Snatch]

I'll sound cocky...but I am one of the best people in the country for what I do and know my field extremely well.

[Freedom Canadian]

I could be extremely good, but I can't be assed to care, so I said about average. I spend a lot of time doing anything but working, honestly.

This will probably change now that I have a good boss, though. :)

[Sobek]

Apparently that's rare in the illustrators who are flooding the market these days. I'm appalled by that. The current trend is to use shape, texture, and colour to create the impression of intent, and pass it off as a particular personal style -- but apparently very few can actually draw with any skill and fall apart without computer tech to enhance their work.

I find that both appalling and unsurprising.

[Pigs in Space]

I think I'm good at my job. As a developer, I'm probably only average. I'm not at all interested in pouring over code books all day, finding design patterns, making my code more elegant, or being one of those trolls who likes to post on Java forums all day telling others to RTFM. However, I get my work done on time, I get great feedback, and I share what I know with others in my company. As an architect, I'm still learning the ropes. I think what gives me an edge over others is what PWD mentioned: I can talk about the technology I work with with normal humans, either in a pre-sales role, or as an analyst, and give non-techies a very clear picture of the work being done, as well as come away with clear requirements for others.

I'd go as far as suggesting that your skills are more important than those of the tech-freaks that hide out there in the IT world. People with no clue about how to converse and interact accordingly seem to be falling by the wayside in IT, at least from what I have experienced.

The true tech-freaks that can't be remotely social are actually fairly ineffective workers, even if they do know code real well.

[Cat of Ulthar]

... I am the only person uner 50 to have my glaze research presented at a glaze conference that has been meeting since 1894...

There are glaze conferences.:grey:

I reckon I am quite good at what I do. I have had no training in teaching at all, and am just following my gut feeling, but my students say I do great, and I think I do as well. I just love teaching languages, and love to see the click when someone understands something, love to hear people talk Arabic who a few years ago could not distinguish their 'ayns from their baa's, love to get inquisitive questions that I don't know the answer to because they wonder about something I had never thought of, etc.. In my experience the teachers who love their subject and who were yet also able to relate to people who were weak at their subject, make the best teachers. So I think I am. I hope.

[FeatsofClay]

There are glaze conferences.:grey:



Yeppers. Everything from false teeth to toilet bowls to spark plugs to spaceship parts to false hips is included with decorative crap. Mostly a bunch of ceramic engineers.

Yes, it is as boring as you sense.

[Pigs in Space]

btw, I wanted to add that I think anyone who gives themselves absolute top of their field votes, yet is finding time to post on here while at work is kidding themselves.

[Harry]

btw, I wanted to add that I think anyone who gives themselves absolute top of their field votes, yet is finding time to post on here while at work is kidding themselves.

I don't. Feats doesn't. Bones hardly posts at all, and Priss, well, I don't know her well enough to say.

So? It's not like this place is filled with chief executives, presidents, or Congreffmen. We all do what we all do, and I suspect some folks here are selling themselves short.

hth

[Xavier Lang]

I like to think I"m good at what I do. While I wouldn't mind being one of the best in my field, I've met enough people that are better than me I have no illusions about being one of them.

[FeatsofClay]

btw, I wanted to add that I think anyone who gives themselves absolute top of their field votes, yet is finding time to post on here while at work is kidding themselves.

I can see where this feeling arises. However, I think my list of accomplishments speaks for itself (know anyone else with work in the White House and the Knesset, first international solo show offered before they could buy booze?) and I feel I have more of a lifestyle than a job.

Edit: P.S. I still think you are sexy.

[Sobek]

btw, I wanted to add that I think anyone who gives themselves absolute top of their field votes, yet is finding time to post on here while at work is kidding themselves.

It depends on how people are reading the question. There's a huge difference between being most skilled and being most productive. In high school, I almost always had the highest test score, but rarely turned in my homework, for example.

Also, I haven't posted to NTL from work in 2+ years.

[Ergeheilalt]

I'm in school for my BS:ME degree right now and I'm hot shit if I do say so myself - but of course, that's without actual field experience. I'm pretty damn terrific at all the practical applications of math and science; although the theoretical parts of multivariate differential equations gives me a headache still. My designs have all been rated very highly by my professors and I've won three or four classroom design competitions in the past couple of years. I'm really excited to get out into the real stuff here soon.

[Brynja]

depends on the day some days i am outstanding others i am just good.

[Pigs in Space]

So? It's not like this place is filled with chief executives, presidents, or Congreffmen. We all do what we all do, and I suspect some folks here are selling themselves short.

I can see where this feeling arises. However, I think my list of accomplishments speaks for itself (know anyone else with work in the White House and the Knesset, first international solo show offered before they could buy booze?) and I feel I have more of a lifestyle than a job.

Also, I haven't posted to NTL from work in 2+ years.

I think you all get it, if you're a productive little beaver at work, and if you're surfing the net in your own time, I can see how you would self-qualify in position 1.

But me, I know I waste too much time at work. But fuck working like that man. I'd go insane.

[FeatsofClay]

But me, I know I waste too much time at work. But fuck working like that man. I'd go insane.


Oh, hell yeah. I waste tons fo time. But I am usually at work 7 am to 9 pm. Leaves some extra time to blow away. Want some of mine?
:tongue:

[Pigs in Space]

Oh, hell yeah. I waste tons fo time. But I am usually at work 7 am to 9 pm. Leaves some extra time to blow away. Want some of mine?
:tongue:

Yes. Please. I need more time to post, and surf for pictures of anime cat-girls.

[Limper]

depends on the day some days i am outstanding others i am just good.


Such modesty.