Herbert Kilian wrote:
Jim Culp wrote in message ...

Consider, how many plumbers and pipefitters and homebuilders
and car mechanics and glider repairmen can you call
to come do their lifework for free?

Why should lawyers
be free
to gliderclubs?

No reason.


The clubs I've been involved with worked BECAUSE of the plumbers,
homebuilders, car and glider repairmen and, yes, lawyers that
unselfishly worked donating their respective talents to the good of
their community. I certainly hope that Jim Culp will find a group of
people that shows him how very wrong his position is.
Herbert, J7
Like most professionals the soaring pilots of the IT industry get asked to do
things for free. When it comes to running the clubs website, creating it, and
donating the server and bandwidth - I'm only too happy to assist. When it comes
to helping one of the folk in the club who are IT challenged, I am a little more
discerning. How likely I am to help a SECOND time depends on the others
attitude. The instructor who bust his backside to be at the club every weekend
to teach my hamfistedness out of me - he can have my time whenever he wants it.
The artizan who has never switched a PC on, can rely on me to print things he
needs - because he arives every weekend with his tools, just in case.

Some of the prima-donnas might wonder how I am always so busy though ;-)