Differences on how men and women act during crises

[Anonymous 11]

I’m independent. I spent a lot of years doing IT in an international corporation and got canned after we got bought out by a larger entity so my services were no longer needed. I networked my way into my present gig.

At lot of times, they’ll have inexperienced junior locals from the local IT companies come in to do something. I just manage them to keep them on track and document what they do. I also make sure they don’t do anything stupid or try to take shortcuts. I am a trusted client advocate in that role.

I also do some consulting gigs for one of our local IT companies on some really tough troubleshooting problems for them. We have a mutual client and their head tech guy and I spent hours working some weird issues so now he calls me at least once a month to help them. It just spiders.

You’ve got to be able to go into an any unknown situation and figure out what’s really happening very, very quickly. I have my “crash bag” loaded with all kinds of tools and software. Ethernet tools and testers, packet sniffers, security stuff and a set of basic hand tools for whatever.

It’s kind of a geek and project manager gig combined. Independent is tough. As long as you can excel word will spread.

One week I’ll be configuring firewalls another I’ll be upgrading accounting systems. I used to write scientific database and data processing programs but have not done that in a while.

There are periods of feast and famine so you have to manage your money wisely. Here is where not having a woman in your life pays off in spades.

I’m just good at smoking out really arcane problems that others can’t seem to find. I’m a trained scientist too so the scientific method is very valuable to me in exploring the unknown. I’m used to it.

You also need to have sales ability too.

[Big BossParticipant 4496]

[narwhalParticipant]

The one thing will always give me credit for is my ability to handle things in a crisis.

There is one example that always comes to mind. When my son was born, he somehow contracted the herpes virus through a small wound on his head. No, it didn’t come from me or my ex, we never found out for sure but I suspect it was from a monitor (or whatever it’s called) they placed on his head.

Anyway, I wouldn’t say my ex panicked, but she absolutely took a backseat and let me take charge of addressing the issue. we had to have him hospitalized as herpes for a 2 week old child is serious. He had to have a series of tests, the worst one being a spinal tap. My ex did not want to be in the room when it happened…and I insisted that I be there for that. I hated every moment watching my son have to go through that and not being able to help him, but if hearing my voice made it any better for him, that’s what I was going to do.

So yes, in general, I’d say when something must be done, men do it. When a woman sees something that needs to be done, they look for a man.

Ok. Then do it.

[Anonymous 42]

Anonymous wrote:

I have to fly into weird places where no airlines service. It’s regional so we’re talking one to 1.5 hour flights at 130 to 210 kts ground speed depending on the aircraft. I do a lot of Cessna 182s and Piper Navajos. The last flight had us landing on a grass field.

@ C-Pig, you sound like a Brazilian cartel member, especially the grass field part.
I suppose you do air drops as well? Especially when the USAF goes stalling by you at sub-subsonic speeds! If you’re gonna evade an f-22 raptor with a limited budget, my bet’s on a biplane! It’s like asking an arrow to catch a butterfly!

[Big BossParticipant 4496]

Anonymous wrote:

ChauvinistPig wrote:

I have to fly into weird places where no airlines service. It’s regional so we’re talking one to 1.5 hour flights at 130 to 210 kts ground speed depending on the aircraft. I do a lot of Cessna 182s and Piper Navajos. The last flight had us landing on a grass field.

@ C-Pig, you sound like a Brazilian cartel member, especially the grass field part.
I suppose you do air drops as well? Especially when the USAF goes stalling by you at sub-subsonic speeds! If you’re gonna evade an f-22 raptor with a limited budget, my bet’s on a biplane! It’s like asking an arrow to catch a butterfly!

Where do I apply? 😀

[Anonymous 42]

Big Boss wrote:

Where do I apply?

You don’t even need a license, just a plane and the willingness to out-fly 20 years to life in prison!
I imagine it produces some serious aerobatic maneuvers with landings in the most impossible places, it’s either that or landing in prison….
As for me; f~~~ it, tear the wings off trying!

[MattNYCParticipant 2329]

Anonymous wrote:

I also do some consulting gigs for one of our local IT companies on some really tough troubleshooting problems for them

I love this s~~~. The simple challenges are, well, simple. I like seeing things that nobody else can solve; built a career on in, in fact.

And it’s really interesting that you mention:

Anonymous wrote:

I’m just good at smoking out really arcane problems that others can’t seem to find. I’m a trained scientist too so the scientific method is very valuable to me in exploring the unknown. I’m used to it.

I have a degree in CS, but majored in physics for 2 years beforehand. The scientific method’s probably the most valuable, helpful, profitable thing i’ve ever learned. Doesn’t get nearly enough credit – i’m glad you called it out.

Do you play on staying in your line of work, or switching to something else/retiring? I considered semi-retiring eventually – i don’t think i could ever give up solving unusual challenges – i get too much of a kick out of it.

[Anonymous 11]

MattNYC wrote:

Doesn’t get nearly enough credit – i’m glad you called it out.

No, it does not. They don’t teach the scientific method in those fire hose cert IT cram schools where you’re supposed to memorize a solution to every possible problem on your cert exam.

I’m a right brained dominant analytic so I can do quantum intuitive troubleshooting leaps and more often than not be right or at least in the ballpark. I can also switch to pure left brain mode which the vast majority of STEM people are when needed though too. I hate whenever I nailed a problem through intuition then have to prove to a strong left brainer step by logical step before they’ll believe me. They are always amazed. “I don’t know how you did that!” They will say.

The right brain processes information differently. Most right brain oriented people are creative types and are not technical.

I majored in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics plus another BS in Management so I’m all over the place. I got my IT experience as a chemist where they eventually gave me a highly privileged account on the HP-AIX system as I was solving many lab related IT issues for the IT department. They loved not dealing with them as the problems are always very challenging.

Being that it pays well, and I like it. I’ll stay in it. I would like to get back more into the database side of things eventually though I also like the troubleshooting opportunities networking provides. I used to love combining IT, science and mathematics to make people’s jobs easier.

I just handled an incident where a woman at one of my client’s was so panicked she could not give me the proper information that I needed to identify and solve the problem. It made my job that much harder and the bill that much higher as I had to play detective. If she would have remained calm and and answered my 5 questions, it would have been way easier.

[Anonymous 42]

Wow C, I didn’t know you took chemistry, M/L ml. gr. mmp’s, covenant bonds, imperial metals, all that s~~~, you’re not only a smart f~~~er, you’re an educated smart f~~~er!

[MattNYCParticipant 2329]

Anonymous wrote:

Being that it pays well, and I like it. I’ll stay in it. I would like to get back more into the database side of things eventually though I also like the troubleshooting opportunities networking provides.

Being paid well, enjoying what you do – do you realize how rare that is? Good on you for building your life the way you wanted!

Hey young MGTOWs, pay attention to Uncle C-Pig here! He parachutes out of private planes to solve interesting problems & gets paid well.

Have you kept up with the db side of things? My first job in my field, during college, was database-related. Developing the code & back-end was cool work, and i got to see it in context within the business that i was building it for. But that was back in 1998 or 1999 i guess – haven’t much kept up with it, but would love to learn again.

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