Have your employee do the work for you. It’s the Murrican way.
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Eggsackly. He’s on retainer for problems. This sounds like a problem 
Just pay attention in class, they usually give you the answers to the weekly homework. College classes are virtually built around you being able to cheat your way through.
What class are you signed up for?
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Yep. It’s my going away present to y’all.
(Psych. Just kidding. Like AR said, it’s an automated prompt from the forum system but the feature isn’t actually available.)
Confession: I’m really kinda gonna miss some parts of this gig… but the entire PWI forum, I will not miss. At. All.
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I am about to have my second child - a little boy.
I am terrified of being too hard on him.
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I confess that, out of nutritional laziness today, I’ve just been periodically snacking on grass-fed minute steaks dipped in hot sauce. I’ve consumed a little over a half pound of them at this point.
Suddenly, heavy Joe Rogan breathing noises.
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I was also, and went too far the other direction. I didn’t push him enough to develop into the best “him” he could be. I don’t know where that line is. I kept hoping he’d develop some intrinsic motivation, but it just didn’t happen until way too late.
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First, fuck CATIA. With a rusted spoon. I understand that it’s incredibly powerful but it’s also as user-friendly as a rear-firing pistol.
Second, most engineers in modern companies have access to software that does a majority of the hard work. That doesn’t give us a free pass on knowing how stuff works, though, because automation can break and the results need to be cross-checked by hand. Then, there’s the special cases that don’t fit into the automations where we have to hand-calculate stuff. That’s when things get fun.
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Oh, c’mon. It’s not that bad for a software (admittedly completely rewritten twice so far) that’s as old as myself.
I fucking hate when architects use CATIA though. Sure, it looks nice rendered and the math (partially) checks out, but they simply cannot imagine how that building will look in five years time, the wear-and-tear and the maintenance required for their “innovative” custom made wall rotating panels that “lets in the sunlight”.
Feel that.
-Former Siemens NX sales rep
My father was hard on me, but I am glad. I needed it. We have a great relationship. He was a parent first and not my friend. Now that I am an adult - he can be my friend. I plan to take the same tactic with my children.
I will love them and give them anything (including tough love), but I will also expect a lot from them.
My dad was a coach and probably a bit more than “hard” on me. For instance, in 7th grade, I was in 4 events in track, and you be in 5. So our coach threw me in the high jump at the last meet just to see what happened. I had never high jumped before, and I didn’t clear the opening height. The next morning at sunup my dad drug me up to the track to practice high jumping. When I would miss, he would have me lay on the matt and cover my head while he beat me with the metal bar that I was supposed to clear. I eventually cleared it, but my back was black and blue by then. I wanted to stay as far away from that kind of thing as I could. I’ve never coached one of my kids teams, and I only work with them if they come to me and ask me to. I never force them outside to play catch or take batting practice. I taught my daughter tennis and she won district at 4’10" and 94 lbs. But she loved it and was always asking me to play with her. I know my oldest could have benefitted from me being harder on him, but we have a great relationship and I know he will be a better father than I am.
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Wait… that’s straight up abuse
Also, how is getting beat in any way productive for high jump performance
If anything, I’d imagine a beat up back is counterproductive.
Reminds me of when mum would get mad and hit me with a clothes hanger for making mistakes on the piano. I still get mad thinking about that and it’s a large reason I never want to touch an instrument ever again
Maybe I’m just “soft”
I’d also say that it probably varies very differently based on the individual kid. For me, mum stopped in middle school when she realized that her style was at the root of Behavioural issues that literally got me expelled. My little bro took it better, but it wasn’t effective either
On a side note: I have a pretty high pain tolerance despite never having been part of activities that build pain tolerance. Maybe getting hit so much helped?? Although, mum isn’t too happy about that either
The shit of it is I won district the next year, so he felt justified. That happened a lot.
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This reminds me of those instagram “coaches” who use high level athletes tk “prove” that their training method works.
Clearly those athletes are succeeding in SPITE of bad training
Or would do BETTER with more effective training
The other thing is that after those incidents in MS, she kind of got the sense that I could do some serious damage
No anna you are not soft @doogie didn’t deserve to be hit.
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You ever think there’s a universe out there where humans didn’t make any comments on what you ate.
Nope.
Positive reinforcement has time and time again been proven to be a better motivator and method for ingraining learning than positive punishment (meaning the application of punishment, not that the punishment is “nice”). Positive punishment more often breeds anxiety and fear and actually makes learning worse.
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We should also not yell at people for drinking a lot of milk without trying to communicate first.
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