NauticalGent
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As is normal to human behavior, I tend to classify people by their attributes and pidgin-hole them (it has gotten me into some minor trouble in the past) accordingly.
Since joining this forum about three years ago I have classified other members of this forum into four groups:
The Heavy Weights - those members whose knowledge of Access and VBA are God-like and awe inspiring . They seem to always have the right answer and provide what the poster really needs and not what they ask for.
The Contenders - lots of experience and able to make things work, but often lacking the efficiency and coding prowess that the Heavyweights have.
The Pretenders - Those of us who are trying to be a Contender (but really want to go straight to HeavyWeight) but just aren’t there yet. We often take on the easy questions in hopes we can help, but often the Contenders and Heavyweights have to step in and clean up the mess we made. I’ve had my hand slapped a few times...
The Bums - those who want a quick answer to their immediate problem and nothing else - or spend all their time in the non-Access threads to see how much doo-doo they can stir up. Yeah...I can be a bum at times too.
I chose to use this intro becuase I had some free time and I thought about one HeavyWeight in particular - amazing skills but has the same people skills as Dr. House, or maybe a Pittbull with a sore arsehole...and wondered what their first post in the forum was. So I went creeping...
I was shocked to find that this person was once NOT the Access Demigod they are now. Which prompted me to creep on all the other Heavyweights and for the most part, the story was the same.
It reassured me that no one is imbued with Access-ninja skills, you have to earn them and just like everything else in life, you have to put in the time and earn your stripes. It also gave me hope that I may one day myself, rise from the lowly ranks of Pretender. The Bum traits are in my DNA and nothing short of an exorcism will change that, sorry.
I did all this creeping while binge-watching season three of Vikings and missed just about everything. Thank God for Netflix...
Since joining this forum about three years ago I have classified other members of this forum into four groups:
The Heavy Weights - those members whose knowledge of Access and VBA are God-like and awe inspiring . They seem to always have the right answer and provide what the poster really needs and not what they ask for.
The Contenders - lots of experience and able to make things work, but often lacking the efficiency and coding prowess that the Heavyweights have.
The Pretenders - Those of us who are trying to be a Contender (but really want to go straight to HeavyWeight) but just aren’t there yet. We often take on the easy questions in hopes we can help, but often the Contenders and Heavyweights have to step in and clean up the mess we made. I’ve had my hand slapped a few times...
The Bums - those who want a quick answer to their immediate problem and nothing else - or spend all their time in the non-Access threads to see how much doo-doo they can stir up. Yeah...I can be a bum at times too.
I chose to use this intro becuase I had some free time and I thought about one HeavyWeight in particular - amazing skills but has the same people skills as Dr. House, or maybe a Pittbull with a sore arsehole...and wondered what their first post in the forum was. So I went creeping...
I was shocked to find that this person was once NOT the Access Demigod they are now. Which prompted me to creep on all the other Heavyweights and for the most part, the story was the same.
It reassured me that no one is imbued with Access-ninja skills, you have to earn them and just like everything else in life, you have to put in the time and earn your stripes. It also gave me hope that I may one day myself, rise from the lowly ranks of Pretender. The Bum traits are in my DNA and nothing short of an exorcism will change that, sorry.
I did all this creeping while binge-watching season three of Vikings and missed just about everything. Thank God for Netflix...
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