[Coco] [Color Computer] Has anyone seen Roger Taylor?

[Jim Cox]

Roger:

Glad to see you are back.  My post was only stating that 
you  may be too busy with work to handle the problem, and 
was not meant to be any sort of critique about working for 
UPS.

BTW, right now I am at work, testing a new ASIC design for 
engineering.  I can relate to your schedule.  Counting 4 
days off for Thanksgiving, I have only had 8 days off 
since Sept 10.

This work load and what you said below have got me 
thinking.

Cheers!

-Jim

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:41:57 -0600
  Roger Taylor <webmaster at coco3.com> wrote:
> At 09:33 AM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
>>I know Roger recently took a new job with UPS, and given
>>the season, he may be completely swamped.  I hope that is
>>the only reason he has been silent.
>>
>>-Jim
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> True, I've been with UPS since 2005, but I've always 
>worked full-time 
> jobs during all of my CoCo years.  It's also true that 
>if you fit 
> UPSes criteria for skills and intelligence (mind you) 
>that they could 
> very well "buy" your life during the peak shipping 
>season by paying 
> you insanely rates for a month or two thus making you 
>laugh on the 
> way to the bank and "forgetting" about your other life. 
> However, I'm 
> a tad smarter than that, and I maintain my online duties 
> daily/semi-daily no matter what, except for the few 
>times work has 
> sent me to the Dallas hub for school.
> 
> I can't been bought but in my plans to retire from the 
>company in the 
> far future, I have to take promotions and go with the 
>flow.  If they 
> send me to school for a week or two and I refuse, I'm 
>sure they would 
> drop me back to square one and write me off, or never 
>give me a 
> chance again since 5 other willing people would jump 
>ahead of me in 
> seniority line.
> 
> My long-term idea is to help design more software for 
>UPS to help in 
> the daily grind.  The stuff we use is very impressive 
>and obviously 
> written by some of the smartest teams around and I would 
>like to get 
> a piece of that action one day, but it will take years 
>of research 
> and field knowledge to learn how to solve certain 
>problems.  In other 
> words, I have to experience those problems to know how 
>to help fix 
> them using software for future systems.  Even if I end 
>up offering 
> them a schema for a solution to certain problems I would 
>be happy 
> with that, too.
> 
> I could talk all day about this, but I'd rather get busy 
>getting my 
> forums restored and getting the issue #1 of the CoCo TV 
>DVD released 
> by next week.  So with that being said, and my comments 
>now and in 
> the past about never giving up on my programming, 
>development, and 
> CoCo hobby, I'm not going anywhere, but rather I'll do 
>what I've 
> always done and keep building in all of my interests the 
>same.
> 
> More soon
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roger Taylor
> 
> 
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