jerryskids

Nope, not in what I did, depending on how good a year I had. Two serious questions: 1. Regarding the bolded, do you hate plurals in your work communications? 2. What does your company do? If not plastic spoons, I don't want to be unfair. I was in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.

One more thing on this and then I'll stop. I played baseball and golf in HS, and one year of each in college. Baseball was freshman second semester through sophomore first semester. The summer between those two I had a job that got out at 2:30 every day and I went to the Y to work out every day. Did I realize the importance of flexibility and core rotation? No!!! I pushed a lot of weight up and down like the meatheads in the gym, and reported to fall practice with the best looking body of my life... but not really helpful for baseball. I thought of this as I watched Corbin Carroll hit a homer just now. He's not big. But he has that rotational torque. I wish I could go back and tell younger "suns out guns out" Jerry to mix in some yoga and flexibility.

Those are mine. Quit stalking me!

Didn't have to, chose to. I was an engineer at first, and have 5 patents. Then moved into sales because I had the rare ability to walk both lines. Later went back to engineering because it was an interesting opportunity. Then back to sales/account management. I would say again that your ilk had zero power in high tech, but you are incapable of comprehending it. Also, I just saw this commercial watching the DBacks/Reds game. Do you wear many hats, Spoonman?

I've said this when we had this discussion before. If he were in the finance industry, then yeah, he'd be a possible BMOC. But he's in corporate finance, which is basically saying that he couldn't hang with the big dogs, so he didn't even try to get on the porch. It seems important to him to think that he is important though, so maybe I'll take it easy on him.

Spoonman, I've got an EE degree (table stakes to be successful at what I did) as well as an MBA, so I understand all of your "complex" finance like cost accounting and resolving balance sheets, income statements, and cash flows. I guarantee I could do your job a hella lot easier than you could have done mine. Which is why I was paid so handsomely. I tried to explain why my job was way more involved than talking and golf, but you are too dense to get it. Go work on your plurals and come back after your break.

I've got a Mavrik which is default 9 but programmable to 10, which I generally play (I put it back to 9 for Bandon Dunes last year which is hella windy). Even with the 10 I hit it pretty low, which works well in (generally) hard AZ fairways but on a lush course, not so much. I should probably hit more of an 11 or even 12 like you. But @WhiteWonderjust gave me the secret to monster drives so I'm going to try that out first. Seriously.

I sent Ed $100 for this week and the PGA.

Bump to get Spoonman's response.

You've been calling me a cog and you don't even know what I primarily did? Nice attention to detail, ERP guy. I didn't sell plastic spoons, boyo. I sold SW and HW which cost an obscene amount of money each. It required a unique combination of (very specific) technical knowledge, the ability to communicate that info to engineers and engineering management/leadership, the ability to prospect and find new opportunities, and the ability to manage this all through fortune 500 accounts. Alot more than "talking." Although based on your posts, I could see why you would value people with basic grammar skills. I would concede that maybe the CFO at times made more than me, but not always, and nobody else in finance did. Sorry but it just wasn't valued in high tech. I think I'll call you "Spoonman" from now on. It's a term of endearment as I really like that song. Much like "boyo".

Yes. Also, based on his poor command of the English language, he apparently works for a company that refuses to put an "s" at the end of plural words. Example: BeachGuy: "Hey CEO, we should lay off 5 marketer and 3 spoon maker. No reason, I just had a good lift today and I'm flexing my greased, pumped muscle!"

What I did was highly specialized, and indeed only a handful of people in the world could sell what I primarily sold. Also I was a revenue generator, not a cost reducer like you. I assure you that no spreadsheet jockey up to and including the CFO would ever presume to name me specifically to be laid off. Best case, they could provide input regarding the profitability of certain product lines, which would be taken as input along with strategic importance, expected growth (that is, things that take technical knowledge beyond writing Excel macros). Keep those plastic spoons moving down the line, boyo!

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Thanks, I'll mess around with some of that. The ball is more or less off of my left heel, although I have moved it ever so slightly forward or back depending if I want more of a fade or draw respectively. Mostly I've been working on having quiet wrists that don't twist too much through the ball and cause Mr. Snappy (my biggest problem when I try to overhit it).

Any speed I generate is due to a pretty good understanding of physiology and how to maximize what I can out of my stiff body. I also did taekwondo when I was young, mostly because my family did it (it is about the worst martial art for an inflexible person, maybe ax capoeira (brazilian art) is worse. My main golfing partner never works out and has the worst diet I've ever seen in an adult (pure refined sugar), but he's got that core flexibility plus a few inches taller. The ball just jumps off his club.