I spent 42 years with the same manufacturing company. Went from shop-floor maintenance tech to middle management. Participated in 22 new plant constructions & start-ups in a dozen countries, and a half-dozen mergers and acquisitions.
Attended literally hundreds of meetings with senior managers making decisions. Realized the only ones competent to make those decisions came from the manufacturing plants. Not necessarily from the hourly ranks, but from “local” management.
The people who came from outside the company – sales, finance, administration – had skewed perspectives regarding the importance of their specialized fields. Only “plant people” had a well-rounded view of the processes. Their input was consistently more rational.
We lived in the same 2-story home in the Denver area for 30 years. My basement bookshelves contained more than 500 books, from literature to religious to fiction and historical (some of which I think should have been classified as fiction, but I digress). Ninety percent were hardcover.
When we finally retired moved to a warmer climate the local library jumped for joy when they received the donation.
That was nine years ago. Since then I have switched to Nook (partly due to lack of storage space in our new abode). In retirement, I have accumulated 600+ e-books. Easy to read on a large tablet, and convenient when traveling.
I still prefer hardcovers (I retained several of my favorite R.A. Heinlein SF books), the Switch to e-books has not slowed down my reading pace at all.
I spent 42 years with the same manufacturing company. Went from shop-floor maintenance tech to middle management. Participated in 22 new plant constructions & start-ups in a dozen countries, and a half-dozen mergers and acquisitions.
Attended literally hundreds of meetings with senior managers making decisions. Realized the only ones competent to make those decisions came from the manufacturing plants. Not necessarily from the hourly ranks, but from “local” management.
The people who came from outside the company – sales, finance, administration – had skewed perspectives regarding the importance of their specialized fields. Only “plant people” had a well-rounded view of the processes. Their input was consistently more rational.