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Re:Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and al... by radu_floricica on Saturday June 21, 2008 @05:25AM (#223595)
1. So do many other "cv jobs", but they don't take more then a decade to do it. 2. Like in any other job. 3. True. But automatic promotion doesn't make one proud. 4. Here it's the biggest difference. As an entrepreneur you're training in being able to know what needs to be done. This teaches you the opposite: everything is equally important just because you're told so 5. Not really. In any other job you have at least a few hours of independence. Not in this one. 6. True 7. Not really, at least not he open-desk seating part. 8. Ha ha. Creativity... really. 9. All work = useless work. No work is ever used except for evaluation purposes. Ever. Ever. God, i'm depressed already. 10. Could be, haven't been employed in the field for a while. 11. true 12. true 13. Most people have exactly the same in their resume, so its real value is nil.

I'd like to elaborate a bit on the creativity part. Most school is a lot like an assembly line - the cheapest way to teach thousands of children necessary things. This is not bad, time and money constraints are real. But in this framework you can't afford to encourage true creativity, simply because to be creative you need: 1. a "space" in which to be creative and 2. not to be evaluated by classic means. School environment provides neither.

Re:Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and al... by bayareaguy on Sunday June 22, 2008 @04:05AM (#224132)
I'll grant that many schools (and workplaces) are run by people who take that attitude towards creativity and I think the general lack of parental involvement is the biggest cause. I know one teacher who quit the profession when not a single parent cared about attending her second grade class conference.

However there are some good schools out there that do value creativity. It's unfortunate that parents can't or won't insist there be more of them.