Take Me Out to the Ballgame
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I'm a father of 2 wonderfull little girls and I must say that a cell phone is wired enough for me. I say as 'Adam' stated in a previous posted, I want the wired option to be available, but that does not mean I'm going to be as wired as the WiFi, WiMax, or GSM connection I found on the street are.
This could depend on the life's stage you're living as a person. For instance, the middle age ITPro who has a family, knows that besides anything else outside, the #1 thing that matters in your life is your family. For me, it has been a little while since someone told me an Tech-WhatsNew-Info that amazed me so much. Because I'm aware that we're in the middle of a transition that has never happened in the human history, and that's why I just loose that Tech-Savvy-junky approach.
What I'm trying to say is that the Tech world moves so fast that in the time that you have just start to be shocking about a new technology, there just come another one even more amazing. That's why I still have some things about the old-job approach, such as: I have a time to work and a time offline, so that's why I don't really need -at this time- a Blackberry devices that tells me I'm receiving an email to my job's account, just because the Support Engineer that is processing our incident, is locating in India and it is Monday, 9:30am there; but in my country it is Sunday, 3:30pm.
OK. If I can email it back and tell him any information he might need I'll do it, but I won't start a ping-pong emailing process if I'm with my family in a park or something like that.
We have all hear stories about colleges that have put their jobs over the family. I definitely think it's not worthy. I just think each one deserves its time apart.
Wellington Aquino, MCDBA
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I love having permanent access to the 'net for my own personal interests, but I also make a point of leaving my work behind me when I'm not at the office. That's partly a function of my current job, though - if I switched to a (higher-paying!) gig where being constantly available was a requirement, that wouldn't bother me as long as it was in issue which the company was upfront about.
My brother, on the other hand, has a CrackBerry and is totally addicted to it - his hands start twitching if he's not holding the thing for too long, and he can't help checking and answering mail continually. Again, that's a function of his work - he took the job realising that it would demand his complete committment, and he made the decision to do that for 4-5 years for the financial benefits. But the point remains - he knew going into the job that it would require 24x7 availability, and he accepted that.
As far as wiring baseball stadiums goes, though... I don't see why not. I mean, they have WiFi access in many international airports, and a baseball game is about as exciting as sitting in an airport transit lounge, so sure, give them WiFi access and let them alleviate the boredom with online diversions!
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