[amsat-bb] Re: Getting a job in AMSAT

[Larry Kayser <kayser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike:
>For the record I do not know Don.  I am just speculating based on my 
>experience.

no problem with that at all.

>But when someone is new to doing something (for Amsat), he does not know 
>where to start, or what to do.

That is a good state to be in really.  During my working life I rarely had 
any idea how to get done what the organization wanted - I had to figure it 
out myself.

>I am off and running.  Probably have more to do than I need right 
>now.  And more areas that I could be of assistance in as well.  But it 
>took more than just offering my help.  It took an individual that was 
>already "in" to get me started.  And it took meeting people in person as well.

OK, Mike that is certainly one way, I hope we can agree there are other 
ways as well.

>  So, in my opinion, just telling someone to find a need and then solve it 
> does not work.  It is very difficult, if not impossible, to identify the 
> need if your not already in the there working on things.  What would 
> help, I think, would be getting the "new" person involved with another 
> individual who is already in the mix and allow them to work together.

Certainly a nice way to do things and it makes it easier in some ways to 
get off the ground.  It is of course not the only way and that is 
important.  There are those of us who will work for others and with others 
throughout our lives.  There are those who dance to a different drummer and 
they make things happen and find things to do.

>Just my opinion.

Mike it is a good opinion for some.  Mentors are not always available or 
even exist.  So some need them and others don't, we still soldier onwards.

Good luck with your work, I hope we can meet on the air one of these days.

73

Larry
VA3LK


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