Hmm I think you could be wrong to a certain extent. Doctors give free service to each other all the time. ie they have their forums just like we do. Lawyers too. So do architects. I have personally sat around doctors discussing difficult cases offering advise even training each other almost the same way we do to each other at Afnog. For technical people, we have more avenues for sharing, and the scale is larger. There are more people in need of IT an related support than medical advice, Lawyers come close. But who here has never asked a lawyer buddy with help interpreting something? or just making sense of some legal issue?. There are more of us because its a bigger market. The point Im making is it happens in other professions, just at a smaller scale. If you are ever in a situation like building a house without an architects input but needed one to look over YOUR plans, I bet you'll get one to help out, but they are few, which makes them busier, thats the reality. In IT we tend to help up to a certain point. It also depends heavilly on who you know. On a bad day I have logged on to some people's routers on this list to help out, I don't think I took someone elses job/more away, he knew me, I could help, so I did, If he didn't then maybe they'd have paid someone, or got fired who knows:-) . So I say share more, not less - when you can. JGitau On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Frank <fraogongi@gmail.com> wrote:
Another factor we may be overlooking here, is the fact that, unlike other professions like law and medicine, most techies are in their respective field because they truly LOVE what they are doing, and would even do it for free. They love the challenge. I'm not saying lawyers and doctors do not love what they do, but answer me this: How many corporate lawyers would do their current work if they had to do it for free, in their spare time, and take day jobs as waiters to support themselves? And how many would burn the midnight oil to offer better services to their clientèle? Look throughout most organisations: The first people to get to office, or the last ones to leave the office are mostly the techies. Is it because they have loads of work than the rest? NO. It's because of their own wanting. Sometimes we love what we do too much to a fault. My 2 cents. Kind Regards, F.O.O.
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