[Linux-Anyway] Re: Bash stuff
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:58:45 -0700 (PDT)
> >> Being able to translate or interpret requires being able to
> >> switch rapidly from thinking in one language to thinking in
> >> another, and that is something I can't do easily.
> Simultaneous translation is something I find hard to believe
> it's possible, but it works. Compared to that, translating
> texts is easy so I think I'll offer the members translation
> services if needed.
I'll keep that in mind;-).
> And we'd need someone to translate Meph to english ;-)
Heh. Is my Irish/American unintelligle?
> > I'll go along with that. I remember having got to the point
> > I understood the spoken Polish, but trying to explain what
> > the hell they'd said to another in English was a drag. I'd
> > usually just say that they were looking for something & try
> > -- in broken Polish & English -- to communicate.
> Though you understood it, I'll bet anything you couldn't
> pronounce it properly. Polish is among the languages most
> difficult to pronounce, and you probably have to be born polish
> to ever speak it right.
Forget about it. Even if an outsider ~does~ pronounce it
properly, a Pole will demand it's wrong. Of all the cultures
I've interacted with -- even beyond the Japanese -- Poles are the
most eletist of them all. I like them, but they're very
frustrating.
Even a Polish friend had sided with a Pole with whom I'd had a
dispute in spite of the fact he'd got her drunk & raped her. I
just looked at her & shook my head.
> > I do like the fact that if I should ever be so lucky to move
> > to any European country, I should be able to pick up most any
> > language pretty quickly. I've always had a knack for that
> > when round people speaking another language frequently in my
> > presence.
> > But I'm not holdig my breath that any company would be
> > willing to hire & transport me over based on ~my~ skills;-).
> I think that if you'd transport yourself over, you'd find
> someone willing to hire you. With a UNIX cert of sorts and some
> experience in SQL, it seems it's not that difficult to get a
> job.
Ah, well. I have neither.
> Just yesterday I read that the Brits found there's no IT
> personnel shortage any more and they stopped their program to
> hire foreigners - you missed that one.
Oh, but I'd been sending resumes (& referring to my
experimental CV -- they're not something we're used to over here)
to European companies, as well as those Brits;-), for anything
I'm remotely qualified for & they were offering relocation
assistance for about a year. Just as with most jobs here, I'd
received no responces.
> Germans still want to attract foreign IT workers, but the terms
> are quite restrictive so they can't get much of them. Austria
> is even more restrictive.
I know. But I've all but given up on working in tech again.
Foreign companies aren't interested, & with all the desperate
computer science engeneers here looking for work, even the most
tedious & low-level positions often require rediculous experience
& degrees. It's so silly. They have to know that an engeneer
isn't going to take end-user calls for long for only a litt more
pay than they'd pay me. Amazing that businesses are willing to
deal with the turn-over that they complain about so much just to
get more for less -- for a little while.
Oh well. Maybe I'll get work as an airport security screener
-- if they ever call to tell me when to come in (registered last
week). Maybe then, if hired, I can say goodbye to the inanity of
working in tech.
Meph
--
Piece of cake!
-GS Koblas
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