RPT, was THE best RPT.....

[Dave Doremus]

On 6/16/06, Tom Sivak quoth:
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>I'll probably take the Technical Exam one day.  As Dave says, why 
>not?  If you join the PTG and accept a lower status, I think that 
>says something about you as a person.  But I will get very little 
>pride out of it.


Tom,  I think you're spinning this the wrong way. I think it is very 
worth while to join the PTG for the chance to associate with others 
in your trade who may know more than you, or may not, then you can 
help them, the regional and national seminars are always a ;earning 
experience no matter how much you know, the journal and this list are 
invaluable resources. Why not take pride in being a contributing part 
of a professional organization? I have never felt that status enters 
into it, or should enter into it. No doubt there are some out there 
who wear RPT like a badge and look down from some self defined lofty 
height on the lower classes but thats a very small minority, maybe Im 
just lucky that I have never met one. Since I joined in 1988 I have 
encountered only friendly, supportive people, some of whom are among 
my close friends to this day. After all, my wife just rolls her eyes 
at me when I start talking temperaments, we need someone to hang out 
with who will understand our obsessions. And by the way, I do have a 
life outside of work, mostly occupied by kids, true but also 
including music and fishing and neighborhood activism, very important 
in New Orleans these days.
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----Dave


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Dave Doremus, RPT
New Orleans
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