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Path: mindspring!firehose.mindspring.net!130.207.244.101.MISMATCH!GT-News!prism!swamp.oit.gatech.edu!not-for-mail
From: jsc@swamp.oit.gatech.edu (John S. Cronin)
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Subject: Re: FS: FORD ESCORT $400
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Date: 29 Jan 1999 15:54:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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kpayne@ford-trucks.com (kpayne@ford-trucks.com) wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
> >kpayne@ford-trucks.com (kpayne@ford-trucks.com) wrote:
> >-> Hurts when its directed at you, huh?
> >
> >Not really, considering the source.  :)  Or the pay.  
> 
> The pay?  Surely you jest.  Or is that your criteria
> for worth?

It's one.  And actually, I was referring to what graduates from here
are making elsewhere.  I chose to work here because I like the academic
computing environment (but I sure pay for it in lower wages).  So if 
that tells you anything about me, money certainly is nowhere near the
top of my priority list.  But it is nice to know that I am so valued
in the market place that I could easily get a 20% raise in about a
month if I chose to leave here.

However, if you were to invest YOUR hard earned money (and it was MINE,
no my parents, I worked for it, and it did not come from my parents) in
an education, wouldn't you consider a good return on the investment one
indication of the value of the education?  I would.

> How shallow, but I'm sure your neighbors are 
> impressed.

I doubt my neighbors know how much I make.  I live in Home Park, next
to Georgia Tech.  Not exactly the highest status address in Atlanta
(not the worst either).  I drive a 94 Accord four door and a 1981 VW
Westfalia camper, so it ain't like I drive stylin' wheels either.
You don't know anything about me.

> >In
> >fact, it sounds like you are the one who feels hurt somehow.
> >And the fact is, I can hardly imagine why - you seem to be
> >taking all of this quite personally, for some strange reason.
> 
> I made a comment about the Escort.  Then every Tom, Dick
> (especially the Dicks) and Harry has to jump on me because
> they spent to much for a perceived image.  I notice that
> you have participated just as much.  Are you taking it
> personally?

No, just pushing your buttons.  I find you amusing.

-- 
John S. Cronin 				   phone: (404) 894-6164
Office of Information Technology Operations and Engineering 0715
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: john.cronin@oit.gatech.edu

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