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[HgTX]

I gots stuff on my mind (corporate, not safety). Never navigated these shoals before. And pretty much all of my rather generous supply of mentors are in a position to use the info to financial advantage if I talk to them about it. Would they? Some might. I need to grow up and realize that they're businessmen first and my informal career advisors about 53rd.

So I need serious career advice and everyone who knows my career well enough to talk to me about it meaningfully is also too connected to my tightly knit industry for me to talk to them about the situation.

Whine. Sniffle.

Hg


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[msquared48]

And "the situation" is?

Sounds like you are hesitant about sharing it even here...

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Motivation: Don't ask

 

[SomptingGuy]

... and Hg is by no means anonymous!

- Steve

 

[HgTX]

If I can't tell my mentors, I can't tell a public forum.

Like I said, just whining.

Hg

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[msquared48]

Whatever it is, I trust you will find your solution. Good luck.

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MMC Engineering
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Motivation: Don't ask

 

[TheTick]

It's a big world, but it moves in small circles. "Lonely at the bottom" time.

 

[Latexman]

Sounds like it's weighing heavy on your mind. Maybe you could talk to your priest/preacher?

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[zdas04]

Create a new identity, change all the names, locations, and industries, and post an innocuous question that gets to part of the answer you are looking for. Then have HgTX give the new identity stars. It could work.

David

 

[patprimmer]

Or the new throw away identity give HG lots of stars ;-)

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[patprimmer]

HG

You could use some FAQs in one fora to get around the problem.

You might even manage to get to sit around a table to discuss it.

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[debodine]

I DON'T know you...but here is a kleenex. I hope it helps, as that is all I am qualified to do for you.

 

[SNORGY]

HgTX:

I'd be glad to help.

So...what was the question again?

Seriously, from the OP, it "sounds like" you have an idea that might be worth money, but you think that sharing that idea might result in others taking your idea and profiting while you get nothing. It might be either a business opportunity or a patent-able idea.

I am in a situation somewhat like that. I deal with it this way: I have lots of ideas, and some of them come to me at work. I don't necessarily share all of my ideas with my employer - the ones I choose not to share, I don't "work on" at work. If it's important enough to me, I take those ideas off line for further "investigation".

Regards,

SNORGY.

 

[TheTick]

Use a handle with the word "cutie" in it and see how many responses you get.

My brother used to tell me that if I wanted to find sympathy, it was in the dictionary between shingles and syphilis.

 

[ewh]

... and don't forget to somehow infer that you have cleavage if the responses slow down.

"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - [small]Robert Hunter[/small]

 

[SNORGY]

I tried "SnorgyCutie" and "CutieSnorgy".

Neither worked especially well for me.

Perhaps, in retrospect, I might have uploaded a JPG image.

Regards,

SNORGY.

 

[casseopeia]

If I gain any more weight I'm changing my handle to Deadly Double D's. Just kidding. Suffice it to say that unemployment is NOT good for the diet plan.

Hg, I can't guess what the problem is, but for what it's worth, there is no one out there who will protect you better than yourself. And most will gladly step on your neck to get a leg up before they stick their own neck out to help. Trust no one and act sooner rather than later.

OK, that should be enough of a day brightener. Stay away from sharp objects and high places.

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

 

[TheTick]

If you can't keep your head above water, at least figure out who's going down with you.

 

[patprimmer]

TheTick

I know it was trivial, but the laugh you gave me with the cutie quip earned a star.

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[HgTX]

Heh.

Thanks for the various forms of support from various quarters. I've decided to let the situation marinate a while longer.

Hg

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[SomptingGuy]

In the words of a former boss (before he got canned): "A problem postponed is a problem half solved."

- Steve