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Eto, gungula se oko posta se ipak smirila. 68 komentara, preko tri tisuće posjeta :-), zanimljiva rasprava. Nije doduše bilo ugodno čitati komentare u kojima mi je ukazano da ideja s objavljivanjem tog posta i nije baš pametna, ali kao što sam već zaključio u prethodnom postu, nema potrebe dalje piliti.
Ali, zato se ponovo javila Nella, koja nakon moje reakcije na njen prvi komentar kaže ovako:
Hi Zvone,
Sorry for my late reply, I had better things to do. I hope that you'll understand.
Thank you for giving me better insight of your situation.
You are probably right, you probably have every right to be angry, but the question is would you allow it to control your life ?
Do you think that I live in the Dreamland - where prices are reasonable, politicians are noble, and children respect their elders? Here, my dear, price of gas is three soldiers per gallon, and every night on TV this is what we call the news.
One can just accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will lie and philander. One will get old. You too, will get old and waist your time on anger.
Zvone, I'm sure that you've come a long way since the early '98 days, but obviously not far enough... I'm sure that you've eagerly tried to improve/change the system, I wouldn't expect nothing less from you, and I'm sure you've hit walls - that's the nature of the beast. What I'm criticizing you about, is that instead of learning how to avoid obstacles and play the system into your advantage, you've probably tried to run down a brick wall all by yourself using a brute force. In an addition to that, it looks like you eventually gave up.
Maybe you developed a strategic plan that you're not disclosing with us and your time is yet to come, I don't know. Although, from the info I've learned, it seems to me that's not the case because your focus is elsewhere.
I find it just sad that, after 2 undergrad degrees, masters and Ph.D., you consider it a personal achievement to have skills and knowledge you can sell on the market! To me that is kind of normal, that even after one undergrad degree one could use that knowledge in the industry. You definitely gained a lot with that experience, and for sure it just adds to your ability to teach specialized courses, but here you would be called an instructor. Not to mention that you would be an contract based instructor while you were working in the industry for 6 years.
Regarding your blog, I'm still not convinced that you're doing any good except maybe fuelling your ego by number of visitors and entertaining your web public. Maybe that has some value, I'm not sure... I believe that there is nothing easier to do then what I'm doing right now - criticizing someone/something. It is much more difficult to tangle with the beast, and have positive results. I will not engage in a discussion here, it would be too lengthy, I would prefer to take it offline. For now, we'll just have to agree that here we disagree.
I regret if you find yourself offended you by my 'insightful' ideas, but that is just trajectory that you're projecting on the Internet. I'm sure that you're complex and very unique individual. There is no need to adore me because of it, your wife might get jealous on our adoring baby - dear relationship. The reason I'm not giving out my identity, because I don't believe in disclosing private information on the Internet. One day when weather gets warmer, I might drop by in person. I'm sure you'll remember me...
I'm so sorry to hear about your back problems; try to avoid forward bends, and with correct and persistent practice to stabilize your core, I'm sure it will eventually go away. I have a faith that you'll become healthier and positive individual, because you are the one and only - Dr. Zvone Radikalni !
Bye for now.
Nella
PS. I thought this Google Fight might go well with your title.
Sorry for my late reply, I had better things to do. I hope that you'll understand.
Thank you for giving me better insight of your situation.
You are probably right, you probably have every right to be angry, but the question is would you allow it to control your life ?
Do you think that I live in the Dreamland - where prices are reasonable, politicians are noble, and children respect their elders? Here, my dear, price of gas is three soldiers per gallon, and every night on TV this is what we call the news.
One can just accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will lie and philander. One will get old. You too, will get old and waist your time on anger.
Zvone, I'm sure that you've come a long way since the early '98 days, but obviously not far enough... I'm sure that you've eagerly tried to improve/change the system, I wouldn't expect nothing less from you, and I'm sure you've hit walls - that's the nature of the beast. What I'm criticizing you about, is that instead of learning how to avoid obstacles and play the system into your advantage, you've probably tried to run down a brick wall all by yourself using a brute force. In an addition to that, it looks like you eventually gave up.
Maybe you developed a strategic plan that you're not disclosing with us and your time is yet to come, I don't know. Although, from the info I've learned, it seems to me that's not the case because your focus is elsewhere.
I find it just sad that, after 2 undergrad degrees, masters and Ph.D., you consider it a personal achievement to have skills and knowledge you can sell on the market! To me that is kind of normal, that even after one undergrad degree one could use that knowledge in the industry. You definitely gained a lot with that experience, and for sure it just adds to your ability to teach specialized courses, but here you would be called an instructor. Not to mention that you would be an contract based instructor while you were working in the industry for 6 years.
Regarding your blog, I'm still not convinced that you're doing any good except maybe fuelling your ego by number of visitors and entertaining your web public. Maybe that has some value, I'm not sure... I believe that there is nothing easier to do then what I'm doing right now - criticizing someone/something. It is much more difficult to tangle with the beast, and have positive results. I will not engage in a discussion here, it would be too lengthy, I would prefer to take it offline. For now, we'll just have to agree that here we disagree.
I regret if you find yourself offended you by my 'insightful' ideas, but that is just trajectory that you're projecting on the Internet. I'm sure that you're complex and very unique individual. There is no need to adore me because of it, your wife might get jealous on our adoring baby - dear relationship. The reason I'm not giving out my identity, because I don't believe in disclosing private information on the Internet. One day when weather gets warmer, I might drop by in person. I'm sure you'll remember me...
I'm so sorry to hear about your back problems; try to avoid forward bends, and with correct and persistent practice to stabilize your core, I'm sure it will eventually go away. I have a faith that you'll become healthier and positive individual, because you are the one and only - Dr. Zvone Radikalni !
Bye for now.
Nella
PS. I thought this Google Fight might go well with your title.
Dear Nella,
Looks like we are getting somewhere and I like this comment much more that the first one :-). I still have (some) issues with it, though (otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this).
First, I'd like to clarify a few things regarding my „anger and frustration“. I have a feeling that you somehow misunderstood it because otherwise you wouldn't be writing „you probably have every right to be angry, but the question is would you allow it to control your life ?“.
If you somehow got impression from my blog writings that I'm an angry and frustrated individual and that this somehow “controls my life”, you would be pretty much wrong. On the contrary, I (and most people around me) consider myself rather optimistic and „looking bright to the future“.
I agree with you that my writing on this blog is pretty pessimistic. Hey, that's kind of a country I (we) live in. I see you are also not happy with your country of residence, either. And I perfectly well understand why you feel that way because I agree that USA got a little bit off the track in recent years.
But, I think you whine too much ;-). You in the USA at least got the fundamentals right. For example, I don't think President Bush could so easily shrug of questions how he got property worth 1,5 million US$ during his first term, and without a single receipt to show for it. Now, probably someone in the comments will point out the fact that our Prime Minister Ivo Sanader misteriously got „only“ 1,5 million HRK (which is approx. 300.000 US$) worth oh wrist watches, but you know, to put it in the perspective :-)
You see, I just don't think that would pass in USA. Here in Croatia – no problemo ! And I'm definitively angry because of it !
But hey, quess what - I CAN LIVE WITH IT !
I'm pretty confident in my abilities, and if push comes to shove, I'm damn sure I could pack my bags, head to „the promised land“ (ie. USA ;-) and make out a pretty good living selling my IT knowledge.
I'm also pretty much happy with my (personal) life here in Croatia. I make out a decent living, kids are „the sunshine of my life“ and with third coming soon I don't know if I'll manage to bear all that love
. And I have a supporting wife and nice friends. I certainly had my share of tsunamis in life, and who hasn’t, but on the whole, I don’t think I have a right to complain. Not in this country, where retired workers have to pile through the garbage to make a living.That fact does make me angry ! In fact, that makes me MAD ! But, again, I understand there is nothing much I can do about it.
The best thing I could think of was to start my blog :-))).
And maybe it’s not for much good, “except maybe (for) fuelling your ego by number of visitors and entertaining your web public“.
Maybe you're right. I do have a counter on my blog, and I DO find it a pleasure to look at my visit numbers. My original post fulfilled this „ego-trip“ role perfectly :-).
But I also have some reservations about this. You see, I'm kind of annoyed with blog.hr editors and for a simple reason – I think I had much better posts recently than the one they showed a week ago on the front page.
I understand why they liked that one in particular– whiff of scandal these days is a boone (a must !?), no matter what kind of media we’re talking about, and „fight“ between teacher and a student is ... well, certainly not top of the list, but it has its charms :-).
And with this observation we are getting at the heart of the issue. To state it simply - I DESPISE TRASH-JOURNALISM !!!
If I had written that post differently, from „analyitical“ instead of „avenging“ point of view, you bet it wouldn't get so much attention ! And I intended to do just that with my second post, when your comment put me on another track :-). There's a lot of issues that I opened with my first post – relationship (and respect !) between teacher and student, should their interaction be public, how to respond to untruths about yourself on the internet ...
But that wouldn't get me far in the terms of „impact“...
And you know what's the most funny thing about all this – I MOSTLY WRITE STUFF THAT IS JUST LIKE THAT ON THIS BLOG :-)))). (you see I'm getting my CAPS-LOCK sickness again. Damn style ;-).
So when you say „I believe that there is nothing easier to do then what I'm doing right now - criticizing someone/something. It is much more difficult to tangle with the beast, and have positive results“, I can agree with you on that one :-).
But, do I have „positive results“ ?
I'm satisfied – and that is what counts the most. Even better, path to more of the „positive results“ is clear and well established. But it takes a lot of time and devotion, and I am just fine here where I am right now.
In your comment you also touch on some interesting/important issues regarding my work (and my workplace). Unfortunately, I have a deadline for a paper coming in a few days, and, to be honest, I have to give it some more thought, so it will have to wait.
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Post je objavljen 21.03.2008. u 12:05 sati.