An old time office remedy
Old time office healing
Holistic medicine has been getting much more attention in the last 5 years. These remedies for the most part have been around for many generations. I would like to bring back another practice from those days of old “apprenticeship.” For those of you not aware of this concept it would go like this.
Step 1, go to school. There is no other option,
Step 2, after graduation get associated to someone in the profession.
Step 3, learn the tricks of the trade from that person, but more importantly get graded as though you are good enough to be called a professional in whatever trade you have chosen.
Step 4, Once you are good enough to be called a professional, start your own business or work with someone else’s for at least 5 years.
Step 5, Once you have made a name for yourself and probably made most of the possible mistakes and had to correct them (or get sued). You get to be a team lead or supervisor.
Step 6, After 10 years in the industry if you want a change of pace, then you can teach or apprentice the next generation of professionals.
Step 7, Retirement
If at any point you decide to change professions (from programmer to plumber for example) you start from scratch. you might move through the apprentice period in a shorter time because you already have the professionalism and would only need to hone your technique.
When I went back to college for a refresher several years ago it absolutely sickened me that one of the instructors was a graduate of the program the previous semester and before taking this job he was in high school. I gave him an absolute hard time, with questions like “so how does this work in the real world” and “what happens when your customer wants…” I did it at the time to be a prick but really as I am working with the newest generation of programmer’s class of 2000 on up, no one had taught them some very basic computer professional skills. I had an Cobol programmer teach me the basics of software development and I am damm glad I did as I have been able to trouble shoot in languages I know nothing about because, of the basics Paul taught me.
Holistic medicine has been getting much more attention in the last 5 years. These remedies for the most part have been around for many generations. I would like to bring back another practice from those days of old “apprenticeship.” For those of you not aware of this concept it would go like this.
Step 1, go to school. There is no other option,
Step 2, after graduation get associated to someone in the profession.
Step 3, learn the tricks of the trade from that person, but more importantly get graded as though you are good enough to be called a professional in whatever trade you have chosen.
Step 4, Once you are good enough to be called a professional, start your own business or work with someone else’s for at least 5 years.
Step 5, Once you have made a name for yourself and probably made most of the possible mistakes and had to correct them (or get sued). You get to be a team lead or supervisor.
Step 6, After 10 years in the industry if you want a change of pace, then you can teach or apprentice the next generation of professionals.
Step 7, Retirement
If at any point you decide to change professions (from programmer to plumber for example) you start from scratch. you might move through the apprentice period in a shorter time because you already have the professionalism and would only need to hone your technique.
When I went back to college for a refresher several years ago it absolutely sickened me that one of the instructors was a graduate of the program the previous semester and before taking this job he was in high school. I gave him an absolute hard time, with questions like “so how does this work in the real world” and “what happens when your customer wants…” I did it at the time to be a prick but really as I am working with the newest generation of programmer’s class of 2000 on up, no one had taught them some very basic computer professional skills. I had an Cobol programmer teach me the basics of software development and I am damm glad I did as I have been able to trouble shoot in languages I know nothing about because, of the basics Paul taught me.
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