GON
$150 Site Donor 2025
Yes satire- but still captures the craziness of wealth building in California-- that @JeffKeryk often raves about:
Satire- but supports Jeff Keryk's theory of wealth building via California high tech
- Thread starter GON
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Hmmm, seems like the way things are going today.
On a serious note, there exists an entire group of people who feel that nearly all future wealth will be through litigation.
On a serious note, there exists an entire group of people who feel that nearly all future wealth will be through litigation.
I drank away so many years; got sober at 33. Got my 1st degree at 40 from San Jose State. Majored in Management of High Tech Business (Finance and Electrical Engineering) Minored in Econ and Computer Science. 90% paid for by the wonderful companies I worked for. Off to work in the AM and then to school until 10:00 PM 3 or 4 nights a week. Novellus, now Lam Research, offered to send me to Santa Clara or Stanford for post grad work. Let's just say I needed to be done...
The opportunity here has proved to be unbounded, in my experience. Let's just say I will die with money. Today I get to work with others on their journeys. Incredible. Pick up the tools and run. You just might be surprised where you might end up.
I tell people, "If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere."
The opportunity here has proved to be unbounded, in my experience. Let's just say I will die with money. Today I get to work with others on their journeys. Incredible. Pick up the tools and run. You just might be surprised where you might end up.
I tell people, "If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere."
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Well Jeff, that's all well and good for now.
But just make sure that the Google Bus is doing under 10 MPH before you jump in front of it!
But just make sure that the Google Bus is doing under 10 MPH before you jump in front of it!
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
It sure feels like that is the path we are on. Every time one turns on a news station there has to be at least one mention of a big lawsuit folks are following. "Can't we all just get along!?"
Hey. That is a California quote too!
GON
$150 Site Donor 2025
I might revise your response to state:
On a serious note, there exists an entire group of people who assessed that nearly all tech wealth was made through litigation, lobbyist, and selling out of American principals, not through ingenuity.
I can’t think of a single tech invention over the past three decades that really made a monster impact in my life or have to have. The one exception might be a consumer GPS.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Great Big congrats on all of it!
I started out very similar. Only thru faith in myself and the faiths and beliefs my parents/grandparents instilled in me as a kid, I managed to get out of my bad habits in one piece too , around age 30. We had two sons and I told myself "they will never see their dad do the wrong things." I know you have to be very proud of all you accomplished (education + the work) and did on your own. There is something really uplifting about being able to do a good job for one's employer. Especially if one is lucky enough to work for good places/people.
*** Pick up the tools! I love it. Great advice to some starting out in the workplaces.
Let's just say I am one of the lucky ones. Many have tried far harder to stay sober without success.Great Big congrats on all of it!
I started out very similar. Only thru faith in myself and the faiths and beliefs my parents/grandparents instilled in me as a kid, I managed to get out of my bad habits in one piece too , around age 30. We had two sons and I told myself "they will never see their dad do the wrong things." I know you have to be very proud of all you accomplished (education + the work) and did on your own. There is something really uplifting about being able to do a good job for one's employer. Especially if one is lucky enough to work for good places/people.
*** Pick up the tools! I love it. Great advice to some starting out in the workplaces.
I used to say most of my friends were dead or in prison. Now they are just dead. I am one of the lucky ones and I know it.
Congrats on your life and beautiful family. Well done!
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Thanks.
I too realize exactly how lucky (you know the effort required) that I was as well with kicking the vices part. That was the key that allowed a lot into my life as well as so many other good things that happened for me on and off the jobs I had. I am truly thankful for that.