Victor Rozek
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As I See It: What’s Past Is Prologue
December 10, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreJust beyond the holiday season lurks 2008, carrying the prospects of a fresh start and the baggage of past performance. New years are like that; full of hope and promise, but tempered by what went on the year before. For IT professionals, 2008 will be shaped by the confluence of powerful forces themselves molded by the recent past. The most critical of those forces, as always, is the economy, and how it will fare depends on who you believe.
I’ve consulted the psychic hot line, and reshuffled the Tarot cards, but the future is still a bit murky. So to
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As I See It: What’s Past Is Prologue
December 10, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreJust beyond the holiday season lurks 2008, carrying the prospects of a fresh start and the baggage of past performance. New years are like that; full of hope and promise, but tempered by what went on the year before. For IT professionals, 2008 will be shaped by the confluence of powerful forces themselves molded by the recent past. The most critical of those forces, as always, is the economy, and how it will fare depends on who you believe.
I’ve consulted the psychic hot line, and reshuffled the Tarot cards, but the future is still a bit murky. So to
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As I See It: What’s Past Is Prologue
December 10, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreJust beyond the holiday season lurks 2008, carrying the prospects of a fresh start and the baggage of past performance. New years are like that; full of hope and promise, but tempered by what went on the year before. For IT professionals, 2008 will be shaped by the confluence of powerful forces themselves molded by the recent past. The most critical of those forces, as always, is the economy, and how it will fare depends on who you believe.
I’ve consulted the psychic hot line, and reshuffled the Tarot cards, but the future is still a bit murky. So to
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As I See It: The Sick Guys in Your Wallet
November 26, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIf you’ve been employed for the past six years, without being officially notified you have been given a 30 percent pay cut. That’s what happens when the dollar drops by nearly one-third of its value. What also happens is that your $300,000 home loses $90,000 of its value; your savings are worth 30 percent less, and your groceries cost 30 percent more. As any driver knows, the price of a barrel of oil is over five times what it was just six years ago. One sure sign that the guys pictured on our currency are in poor health is how
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As I See It: The Sick Guys in Your Wallet
November 26, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIf you’ve been employed for the past six years, without being officially notified you have been given a 30 percent pay cut. That’s what happens when the dollar drops by nearly one-third of its value. What also happens is that your $300,000 home loses $90,000 of its value; your savings are worth 30 percent less, and your groceries cost 30 percent more. As any driver knows, the price of a barrel of oil is over five times what it was just six years ago. One sure sign that the guys pictured on our currency are in poor health is how
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As I See It: The Sick Guys in Your Wallet
November 26, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIf you’ve been employed for the past six years, without being officially notified you have been given a 30 percent pay cut. That’s what happens when the dollar drops by nearly one-third of its value. What also happens is that your $300,000 home loses $90,000 of its value; your savings are worth 30 percent less, and your groceries cost 30 percent more. As any driver knows, the price of a barrel of oil is over five times what it was just six years ago. One sure sign that the guys pictured on our currency are in poor health is how
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As I See It: The Paradox
November 12, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreSomeone once said that wisdom comes from seeing the paradox–a contradiction that is nonetheless true. Work is a paradox: It can be life’s most pleasurable and fulfilling experience; or it can be filled with boredom and drudgery. For most of us, the truth lies somewhere between, and we navigate our careers longing for more fulfillment while searching for ways to minimize the drudgery–or at the very least, ways to anesthetize ourselves against it.
In our culture, work has long been equated with punishment. Christian mythology describes Adam and Eve leading idyllic lives of leisure until an act of disobedience finds
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As I See It: The Paradox
November 12, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreSomeone once said that wisdom comes from seeing the paradox–a contradiction that is nonetheless true. Work is a paradox: It can be life’s most pleasurable and fulfilling experience; or it can be filled with boredom and drudgery. For most of us, the truth lies somewhere between, and we navigate our careers longing for more fulfillment while searching for ways to minimize the drudgery–or at the very least, ways to anesthetize ourselves against it.
In our culture, work has long been equated with punishment. Christian mythology describes Adam and Eve leading idyllic lives of leisure until an act of disobedience finds
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As I See It: The Paradox
November 12, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreSomeone once said that wisdom comes from seeing the paradox–a contradiction that is nonetheless true. Work is a paradox: It can be life’s most pleasurable and fulfilling experience; or it can be filled with boredom and drudgery. For most of us, the truth lies somewhere between, and we navigate our careers longing for more fulfillment while searching for ways to minimize the drudgery–or at the very least, ways to anesthetize ourselves against it.
In our culture, work has long been equated with punishment. Christian mythology describes Adam and Eve leading idyllic lives of leisure until an act of disobedience finds
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As I See It: Survey Says . . .
October 29, 2007 Victor Rozek
… Read moreOne of the manifestations of human curiosity is our endless need to survey public opinion on every conceivable subject from voter preference to Viagra usage. Periodically, people are asked to identify which professions are most stressful, and I’m always surprised when bomb squad doesn’t top every list. Apparently, whether you’re a member of an exceptionally stressful profession depends entirely on who is asking and answering the questions. Yahoo recently featured links to several survey results listing the most stressful and depressing jobs. According to one survey, the top five stressors in ascending order were: medical intern, air traffic controller, miner,