Re: Technical vs. management track

you are right man
but world does not think in your way
anup
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From: Sharaf F. Al-Sharif <alsharif@bushnak.com> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com <PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: [PipingDesign] Technical vs. management track

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>> Don't patronize until you know what you're talking about.
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>Sorry. Only part of the picture was visble to me from here. I had no way of
>knowing that:
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>> Engineering did work like that in the US, but mentoring went out when the
>MBA's walked
>> in.
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>> Most engineers simply don't practice actively past age 40 because
>> 'success' means 'taking the management track,' unlike the situation with
>> the law and medical practice. Lawyers can practice actively well into
>> their 70's, as can physicians and in doing so they act as teachers.
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>Why is that so? I think this is very unfortunate. How can this be changed?
I
>for one studied engineering because I am thrilled by the technical
>challenges, figurng out how to put science to work. I would like my success
>to be measured in terms of how good I am at that, not by the number of
>people who report to me. What do you think?
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>Sharaf
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Received on Tue May 16 13:01:00 2000