Why help?

[infoman]

I'm old enough to have spent as many years teaching as some of you hav
worked. And in my work, I charge for what I know and what I can do.

If I can't do something, I refer the customer to someone who can do th
job. I don't try and snag an excel job and then run here for help. Or
bring in help and pay them for their knowledge and work.


Another post calls it capitalism. I don't think so. Capitalism would b
subcontracting to someone who could do the job. I call it using peopl
if someone charges for something they don't do.

Jealousy? No. Frustration with others who can't stand the idea o
admitting their limitations or maybe it's losing the money. I have m
business and it doesn't rely on guts to ask others to do my work. Mayb
you should reexamine your own work ethics if you think it's correct t
use someone else's work. In some areas it's called plagiarism
intellectual dishonesty, intellectual theft, or cheating.

I'm not advocating restricting information. There should be a
equitable exchange. That means not taking advantage of others. Tha
means not giving as much as you get. That means helping as much as yo
get help.

As for anonymous? Sure, because this is the internet and filled wit
lots of creeps whose first response is to try and identify and haras
me. Listen kiddies, I've been on the net when you were learning how t
type. I'm listed in enough FAQ's. We all knew each other then. And w
didn't use each other. The "takers" didn't last long.

 

[GeorgeF]

Hi All,
What a topic! Here we are trying to help each other, since there i
not one textbook encompassing all these questions/answers, and now w
are quibbling because someone is selling the answers. I've been t
Border's Book Store many times but have not found any literature o
Excel as detailed as the questions found on the Forum. As a rathe
limited user but avid reader, I look at the Forum as an ever increasin
book of knowledge without an Index and with catch-all Chapter headings
since so much is cross-threaded. Reading this book is a great pleasur
to see that someone, someplace at some time of day is looking at you
problem, perhaps understanding it, and offerring some thoughts, som
posssible dialog and eventually, a solution. Any one of these ver
specific questions can be nothing more than one small, but important
contribution to an overall Excel application for somebody, somewhere.
The fact that someone is selling a very few of these thoughts als
reflects on the weakness of his/her market because the Forum i
available to everyone. I did offer an answer to someone's question.
Even if they sold it, I don't want 10%. I think that we are all par
of a win-win group. George