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In article <567bknF26rfrkU1@mid.individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
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>I would be very glad to have you working on a project with me, Doc. (No
>sarcasm, I mean it...)

Haw haw... done fooled another'n!

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>Unfortunately, as I cannot legally work in the USA and you could not leave
>Killer alone in order to work overseas, it is unlikely to happen. :-)

Mr Dashwood, as the Italians used to say, 'Mit Geld und guten Woerte tut
Mann alles'.  Even though an overseas assignment would be a bit
heart-wrenching it could still be managed; any client sufficiently
familiar with such things could see how it would be done:

1) I get paid a Decent Hourly Rate.
2) All expenses associated with living are expensed to the client.
3) Terms of contract include a round-trip business-class flight to (point)
every (n) ws for (y) ws of unpaid 'refreshing time'.

With such terms in place things would be surprisingly simple.

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>Although I let your negativity get to me this time, it doesn't blind me to
>your value:-)

Mr Dashwood, you keep calling my Remembrances of Experiences Past
'negativity'... to say 'It is my experience that the sun rises at about
(time) in this area at this part of the year' is no more 'positive' than
to say the same thing (with different (time)) for sunsets is 'negative';
to expect one without the other - sunrises without sunsets - is to be
guaranteed disappointment.

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>Sometimes, when we are doing the best we can in the face of difficult odds,
>it is aggravating to be rained on by someone who appears to offer nothing
>constructive to the case...

What might be seen as 'constructive', Mr Dashwood, could be a result of
the skills and experiences of the craftsman doing the job.  Using the
above example of sunrises and sunsets:

'We've got to get (complex job) accomplished during today's daylight
hours!'

'All right... it is now (time1); around these parts and at this time of
year the sun usually sets at (time2), that gives us...

'Why are you talking about sunset?  Stop being so negative, put your back
into it and do the job!'

'Ummmmmm... isn't knowing how much time we have kind of important to the
method that we use to break the task into subtasks and dependencies?'

'No, what is important is having a good attitude and doing the job; start
doing the job and stop being negative!'

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>There are some very good Project
>Management jobs going right here in NZ at the moment so I'm hopeful I won't
>need to go back to Europe.  Actually, any of the three options (stay here
>and market the address service, take a PM job in Auckland or Wellington, or
>go back to a PM job in Europe) are OK by me, but I'd prefer to stay here.

Easier and easier... NZ and Europe have (as pointed out in a different
thread recently) loosened the... leash they have on canine importing; as
long as proof of Killer's vaccinated status can be produced - and I just
happen to have it in a nearby desk drawer - then, as Britvolk say, 'Robert
is your mother's brother'.

DD