[nflug] NFS noac option

[ptgoodman]

Hi Cyber Source,

It was a question, and as I was originally writing it, I saw it as an 
analogy between NFS ( said to be old and obsolete ) and older workers. 
Too subtle for you?  No, you weren't trying to inspire me. YOU WERE NOT 
EVEN _TRYING_ TO HELP. Yes, I'm shouting. If you were trying to help or 
inspire me, you might have pointed out some real examples of older 
people who _are_ creative. You couldn't do that, even though I have no 
doubt that there are _some_ such people out there. You might have shown 
that at least one of the three examples you cited were creative and did 
_some_ of their best work when they were somewhat older. But you 
couldn't do that either. Or even offer some viable options for me in 
finding work---that would truly have been inspiring. You couldn't do 
that either. These were your failures, not mine. Since you failed to 
make any point and ran out of options, you insult me. You have the 
option of taking this out of the list yourself, so when you respond, and 
I know you will, please do so offline as I requested in my last post.

To help you out, it's:      ptgrunner at earthlink.net

I must have hit a raw nerve about your age. I'm sorry for that. Ageism 
and the perception that older people can no longer perform work as they 
once could is all too real. It's that perception that is wrong. No one 
wants to retrain an older worker. I've got a few good years left in me. 
I live on the southern tier. I've checked with counselors at Jamestown 
Community College, an independent contractor, and the owner of a company 
that does some type of computer work. All gave me the same answer: there 
is no curriculum or group of computer-related courses I could take at 
JCC that would virtually assure me of a job in that field.

So before you judge me and insult, I'd ask you to give your comments 
some thought. Shooting from the hip usually doesn't work. My other 
request is that if you really want to insult me again, please do so 
face-to-face. Don't worry, I have no interest in harming you.

Yes. Regardless of how you respond, I'm done with this thread.

k.


Cyber Source wrote:

> I was helping YOU out as you were whining about age and loss of 
> creativity and the loss or your job. I was trying to give you some 
> inspiration and you keep turning it around, if you want to dig in the 
> dirt, do it on your own and leave the list out of it. I'm fully aware 
> of how the thread got started.
> <--snip Do we really lose creativity and fail to adapt as we get 
> older? --snip>
> In YOUR case, yes!
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