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Join Date: May 2006
Location: , , USA
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27-07-06, 06:02 PM
Incognito wrote:
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Shemsi - I've been thinking for years to start a thread titled 'What have you done for Africa today' but I got kind of disheartened by the responses I used to get in the days Iused to send out an email with the same title
Personally my attentions focus on what I can do for charity - as in for real poor peoplebut the money well is running dry - and helpingthe up and coming engineers in my trade learn the trade.I have this vision of a large IT boom in Africa and want as many ready and capable African engineers on the case.
I'm more an undivided attention person. Don't think there's anything worse than making promises you can't keep....known too many good intentioned people fall out for stuff like that. Im kind of on thismission where I gave myself until 40 for the solid graft. In that time I would have had family andcollateral well established laying the foundations to dedicate myself to the cause. Kind of still on it but found some soft sand in the foundations which will take about two years to stabilise so I'm seriously thinking aboutusing it as an excuse to jack in the 9-5 three years early. Ultimately I see myself on a flex similar to FredB, wish I'd met him ten years ago.
But for me,ourbiggest problemis with no collective cohesion, everybody doing their little thing to helpis like pi$$ing in the sea - it's like more of aconscience clearing exercise or just something done out of passion where achieving the end game is a bonus.I believe collective cohesion comes from sharedcore valuesas opposed to a shared dream.
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Powerful sentiments there, Incognito.
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
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