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Top Poster Ron Badour wrote:
I have been retired for 14 years and I do not make a living doing computer work. It was my impression that MVP's were "acredited" with that designation based partly on the fact that they are employed in the IT field. Your impression is wrong--I retired from the Air Force and have never worked in the IT field. It's not that my impression is necessarily wrong. It's just wrong in your case - and your case could be one out of a hundred. |
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It's not that my impression is necessarily wrong. It's just wrong in
your case - and your case could be one out of a hundred. While it is true that many MVPs do have a computer career field background, there are lots of MVPs who do not. Here are a few MVPs I am personally acquainted with and what they do/did for a living: Glen V, automotive service. Rick R, banker. Bert K, firefighter. Noel P, chemist. Brain S, general construction contractor. Ronnie V, crane operator. Tom F, teacher. Detlev D, engineer. RC W, CPA. Richard H, paramedic (after being an MVP for a few years, he went to work in the IT field). I have met a doctor, a surgical nurse and a 14-year old student who were MVPs. These are but a few of the people who do not work as a programmer or have an IT background. I am in a category called Shell User--you can check out people's backgrounds (if they listed them) he https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/co...-+Shell%2fUser Ron Badour |
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It's not that my impression is necessarily wrong. It's just wrong in
your case - and your case could be one out of a hundred. While it is true that many MVPs do have a computer career field background, there are lots of MVPs who do not. Here are a few MVPs I am personally acquainted with and what they do/did for a living: Glen V, automotive service. Rick R, banker. Bert K, firefighter. Noel P, chemist. Brain S, general construction contractor. Ronnie V, crane operator. Tom F, teacher. Detlev D, engineer. RC W, CPA. Richard H, paramedic (after being an MVP for a few years, he went to work in the IT field). I have met a doctor, a surgical nurse and a 14-year old student who were MVPs. These are but a few of the people who do not work as a programmer or have an IT background. I am in a category called Shell User--you can check out people's backgrounds (if they listed them) he https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/co...-+Shell%2fUser Ron Badour |
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Ron Badour wrote:
It's not that my impression is necessarily wrong. It's just wrong in your case - and your case could be one out of a hundred. While it is true that many MVPs do have a computer career field background, there are lots of MVPs who do not. Here are a few MVPs I am personally acquainted with and what they do/did for a living: (list of a dozen people) I have met a doctor, a surgical nurse and a 14-year old student who were MVPs. According to Microsoft, you must be 18 years old to be an MVP. These are but a few of the people who do not work as a programmer or have an IT background. I'm not looking for an argument here, but by Microsoft's own count there are about 3500 MVP's world-wide. I would expect that several hundred of them do not earn their living directly by being programmers, computer tech's, admins, etc. But I bet the overwhelming majority do. I am in a category called Shell User-- http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx Why are there no OS-centric catagories? Such as a "Windows-98 MVP" ??? |
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Ron Badour wrote:
It's not that my impression is necessarily wrong. It's just wrong in your case - and your case could be one out of a hundred. While it is true that many MVPs do have a computer career field background, there are lots of MVPs who do not. Here are a few MVPs I am personally acquainted with and what they do/did for a living: (list of a dozen people) I have met a doctor, a surgical nurse and a 14-year old student who were MVPs. According to Microsoft, you must be 18 years old to be an MVP. These are but a few of the people who do not work as a programmer or have an IT background. I'm not looking for an argument here, but by Microsoft's own count there are about 3500 MVP's world-wide. I would expect that several hundred of them do not earn their living directly by being programmers, computer tech's, admins, etc. But I bet the overwhelming majority do. I am in a category called Shell User-- http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx Why are there no OS-centric catagories? Such as a "Windows-98 MVP" ??? |
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There was never a W95, W98, ME, etc., MVP category. We used to be lumped
under DTS (Desktop Systems) which I seldom used because it was not descriptive enough to suit me. I used "W98 MVP" until a few months ago when I started making the majority of my posts in XP newsgroups. Since I don't like Shell User (used to describe all operating systems), I just use the "number of years" I have been in the program. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 Why are there no OS-centric catagories? Such as a "Windows-98 MVP" ??? |
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There was never a W95, W98, ME, etc., MVP category. We used to be lumped
under DTS (Desktop Systems) which I seldom used because it was not descriptive enough to suit me. I used "W98 MVP" until a few months ago when I started making the majority of my posts in XP newsgroups. Since I don't like Shell User (used to describe all operating systems), I just use the "number of years" I have been in the program. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 Why are there no OS-centric catagories? Such as a "Windows-98 MVP" ??? |
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"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
snip I'm not looking for an argument here, but by Microsoft's own count there are about 3500 MVP's world-wide. I would expect that several hundred of them do not earn their living directly by being programmers, computer tech's, admins, etc. But I bet the overwhelming majority do. That might be true, but that's not the point you were making. You stated that you had the impression that "MVP's were "acredited" [sic] with that designation based partly on the fact that they are employed in the IT field.". Ron's point is that your impression was wrong, and that is evidenced by the fact that there are plenty of MVPs not employed in IT, or in some cases not in the workforce at all. Check out what MS actually says about the process: "MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. " |
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"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
snip I'm not looking for an argument here, but by Microsoft's own count there are about 3500 MVP's world-wide. I would expect that several hundred of them do not earn their living directly by being programmers, computer tech's, admins, etc. But I bet the overwhelming majority do. That might be true, but that's not the point you were making. You stated that you had the impression that "MVP's were "acredited" [sic] with that designation based partly on the fact that they are employed in the IT field.". Ron's point is that your impression was wrong, and that is evidenced by the fact that there are plenty of MVPs not employed in IT, or in some cases not in the workforce at all. Check out what MS actually says about the process: "MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. " |
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