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bradmcgehee@hotmail.com
Posted Saturday, July 25, 2009 1:08 PM


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Brad M. McGehee
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Bruce Sullivan
Posted Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:29 PM
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Brad,
What baloney! It must be a slow news day!
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Posted Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:53 PM
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Brad:

That sounds pretty right on, though I didn't take the job for any of those reasons. I think I may exhibit some of those of traits, though. Perhaps the importance the job demands a level of conservatism that others don't. Can a cowboy remain a DBA?

BD
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Posted Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:27 PM
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Brad,

I suspect that you are a conservative, stable, dependable, and reliable, family-oriented, hard-working, community-minded person of faith and see those same characteristics in other whom you respect.

Doug
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Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:25 AM


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I suspect you're going to get a lot of hate mail for this one Brad....

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Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:28 AM


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Generally, I would not care if my neighbor was one of the "people of faith" or not. Nor would I care if my neighbor's political views or non-political ways of life (conservative or liberal) were what I wanted them to be.

Welcome to the USA... the land of the free- which includes, free practice of religion OR NO religion, politics, life!

Baloney! You should have just called this article... Does my maturity (described below) make me a good DBA?



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Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:33 AM
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I would agree with all except the last one. I don't think DBA's are more religious than anyone else. Probably they are more like a typical scientist who is skeptical of religion in general, so I would say they are less religious.

Many people who work in technical jobs have these traits in general. These are not sexy jobs. Most DBA jobs are "feed your family" type of work by people who really enjoy solving difficult problems and don't want to be road warriors. I know I like being with my family every night, although I know management and sales work pays much better, I don't want to do the travel.
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Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:00 AM
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On matters of faith....and the rest

Brad, interesting observations. You pretty well pegged me...

paul
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Hard working and stable are the only two from Brad's list that I see in common with good DBA's.

As long as it's doesn't effect your performance, legal status or health, I don't care what you do in your personal life. I've spent many hundreds of hours covering for people who let their family, beliefs and community activities impact their attendance and performance to a greater degree than it should.
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Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:44 PM


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mosl31 (7/26/2009)
I would agree with all except the last one. I don't think DBA's are more religious than anyone else. Probably they are more like a typical scientist who is skeptical of religion in general, so I would say they are less religious.

Many people who work in technical jobs have these traits in general. These are not sexy jobs. Most DBA jobs are "feed your family" type of work by people who really enjoy solving difficult problems and don't want to be road warriors. I know I like being with my family every night, although I know management and sales work pays much better, I don't want to do the travel.


Please don't confuse Faith with Religion. They ARE NOT the same. Faith is believe in something that can not be seen, measured, or defined as in my faith in God. Religion is a doctrine such as Catholism, or Islam, Buddishism, etc.


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