Re: Personality types and motivators in the biz (was RE: STC Philadelphia conference sessions

["John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

We must be reading a different messages from John. To me, only one involves
the "joy of simply meeting people", and that the reason begins with "...And
always, always, always", unless because  he mentions "always" three times,
you are counting it three times.

What reason did you think you saw?


On 5/22/08, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
>
>
>
> John Hedtke's reasons to attend STC conferences over the years "have
> included at various times and in multiple combinations:
> > * to pick up skills I needed
> > * to get STC speaking gigs
> > * to network
> > * to do research for magazine articles and books
> > * to make contact with software developers and service vendors
> > * to present sessions
> > * to find work
> > * to garner contacts and resources for my local chapter
> > * to receive professional awards
> > * to work with the Nominating Committee (which I was a member of for
> > a couple years)
> > * to introduce my fiance to people and to show her the people I work
> > with (oh, she had things to say about tech writers! :)  )
> > * to go to the place the conference was in
> > * to perform the latest silly song at the Jam Session
> >
> > And always, always, always to see old friends and to meet as many new
> > people as I can."
>
> See, that wouldn't be me.
> My list of reasons would include the ones about info and skills, and
> maybe a little bit about meeting some acquaintances in the biz, but
> there would end my social motivation.  Where you repeated, three
> different ways, the joy of simply meeting new people... that would be a
> motivator to me only if all the "old" people I know had died off and I
>
>


-- 
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President

'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
     -- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
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