Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Good offer? It's the best. Distance is the only preventative issue, although perhaps on a quiet weekend we could wangle something...if LIR were ever that desperate.

I wouldn't need to be desperate to go out with a friend.

I'm feeling that desperate this weekends: going to something as a gooseberry with two people too old to be interesting to sss555s this weekend because the NP rightly told me to stick by arrangements and the arrangement was dh and I would go with them (they are lovely so I'm not bothered) and you missed a room FULL of totty at that thing I didn't go to last week.



There is a spare room here (upstairs where the dogs can't get to) but not much totty for you locally, I will make a plan if you are up for it though.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

He's counsel then?

nope.........

lemonjelly

How far is too far with these cuts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15179431

lemonjelly

GDB2222 wrote: »

I was also thinking that chew's doubts and wish to be trained were very good omens.

I closed down my firm and sold the business, principally because I was totally fed up with managing the people. And I was aware that I was [STRIKE]not very good[/STRIKE] pretty awful at it.

It takes a big man to be honest & say something like this GDB...

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I was also thinking that chew's doubts and wish to be trained were very good omens.

I closed down my firm and sold the business, principally because I was totally fed up with managing the people. And I was aware that I was [STRIKE]not very good[/STRIKE] pretty awful at it.

can you say what you did/were trained in?

as a matter of interest did you have any further training in management at any point when you realised you felt ill suited to it?

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

And also have a few friend sour age .

I love this typo....and that's all it was. Its superb.

PasturesNew

I've never managed people, just projects. IT projects .... with the IT staff being specialists (nerds/recluses), so we all spoke the same language and no social skills needed/encouraged... just get the job done, have a nerdy laugh, no prima donnas etc to deal with.

Nowadays though, so many jobs seem to focus on soft skills/people skills, of which I have zero. I'm a d4mned good project manager, not a people manager... nobody's ever been upset by me, I've worked well with all teams etc. Never had any issues, smoothed over the issues of others ... just by "being me". All projects delivered on time, better than or equal to what they were supposed to do. But recruiters aren't interested in that, I have to answer questions like "what's your management style?" I couldn't even list a management style, have no idea how many styles there are even ... my management style is getting it done without stress

"Give an example of a time when you have ...." - usually I've no idea, or it's never happened. So no examples to give. I don't function in that arty farty world of nonsense speak.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

That's very generous of you... what is the name of the software ( you can PM me if you like)?

To be honest, though, the part I find difficult is the 'getting the image' part. Once you have the image, it isn't that hard to do, but making a image that sells is actually quite difficult...

I've got the whole set of Armand Morin's stuff ... never actually used it. eCover generator.

Kind of got sucked up into buying a big deal of stuff (about £2k's worth) of course, trip to seminar in Vegas, whole raft of software) in 2007, then never got round to using it. Flogged the seminar tickets. But .... we all spend money at some time in our early days on things we never get round to using don't we

I did attend the Gatwick 3-day seminar, flogged the US tickets, listened to the training MP3s, downloaded the 351 instant products (should do something with those really as they're ebooks with full rights) and a load of software that makes ebooks, ebook covers, makes sales letters, make headers, make popovers ... and more and loads of stuff.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never managed people, just projects. IT projects .... with the IT staff being specialists (nerds/recluses), so we all spoke the same language and no social skills needed/encouraged... just get the job done, have a nerdy laugh, no prima donnas etc to deal with.

Nowadays though, so many jobs seem to focus on soft skills/people skills, of which I have zero. I'm a d4mned good project manager, not a people manager... nobody's ever been upset by me, I've worked well with all teams etc. Never had any issues, smoothed over the issues of others ... just by "being me". All projects delivered on time, better than or equal to what they were supposed to do. But recruiters aren't interested in that, I have to answer questions like "what's your management style?" I couldn't even list a management style, have no idea how many styles there are even ... my management style is getting it done without stress

"Give an example of a time when you have ...." - usually I've no idea, or it's never happened. So no examples to give. I don't function in that arty farty world of nonsense speak.

My answers to those questions on your behalf would be:

Management style:
... my management style is getting it done without stress,on time, better than or equal to what they were supposed to do and without upseting people.


when x happened:

That's never happened to me, as a project manager I feel its part of my brief to prepare and avoid such things and to leave room in schedule to deal with the unexpected but surmountable issues that arise.

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

Your obsessed with swan pedalo's :rotfl:

I've actually been in one :cool:

I've kind of got this thing about pedalos ... never even actually seen one in real life.... but I'd like to have a go on one one day.