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  #31  
Old August 30th 07, 05:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
98 Guy
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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.
  #32  
Old September 2nd 07, 02:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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


  #33  
Old September 2nd 07, 02:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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


  #34  
Old September 2nd 07, 03:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
98 Guy
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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"
???
  #35  
Old September 2nd 07, 03:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
98 Guy
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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"
???
  #36  
Old September 3rd 07, 01:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Ron Badour
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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"
???



  #37  
Old September 3rd 07, 01:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Ron Badour
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Posts: 957
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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"
???



  #38  
Old September 5th 07, 11:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Jeff Richards
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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. "


  #39  
Old September 5th 07, 11:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Jeff Richards
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Posts: 1,526
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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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