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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:08:40 EDT
Reply-To:     "Nick Gavrielatos" <ucnick@SOCRATES.UMD.EDU>
From:         "Nick Gavrielatos" <ucnick@SOCRATES.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      Only in America....
Comments: To: hellas@brownvm.brown.edu

Opws isws kserete poly douleuw san VM systems programmer se
megalh software development etaireia sto Washington DC
metropolitan area.

Thn Paraskeuh pou mas perase, kai exontas alla sxedia sto
myalo mou(thelw 6 wres gia to gd master mou, to thesis to
exw grapsei 2 xronia twra), edwsa ston dieuthynth mou thn
paraithsh mou, logw kai tou oti ta pragmata den pane kai
toso kala teleutaia kai h etaireia afhnei na fygei arketo
apo to empsyxo dynamiko ths(afhnei na fygei einai mia
koubenta, osoi douleute exete mia idea tou ti ennow).

Tou thn edwsa grapth, ypogegrammenh, me ola ta typika,
kai me ola ta preponta. Th dexthke.

Xthes Trith to apogeuma mou estelne mynhmata kai mou
elege pws einai poly important na mou milhsei amesws.
Egw eixa katebei sto data center na kanw mount mia
tainia, kai otan gyrisa sto grafeio mou kai ekatsa
sto terminal mou ta eida ola mazemena...

Den prolaba na apanthsw, kai me brhkane o director
olou tou tmhmatos mas(110-120atoma) kai o proedros
ths etaireias(auton pragmatika ton ektimw), kai mou thn
pesane legontas mou pws den me afhnoun na fygw, pws
h paraithsh mou is rejected, kai pws "your services
are too valuable to the company"... "amerikanikes
ahdies", skefthka mesa mou, kai nasou erxetai kai o
amesos dieuthynths mou mesa, kai ton piasane auton
kai ton arxisane na ton rwtane, kai na tou lene ma pws
eipes esy entaksei, kai pws kai apo pou kai ws pou
kai etsi....

Sixamenos opws eimai, kai mias kai to xeirotero pou
tha mporousan na mou kanoun htan na me ... diwksoun
(etsi ki alloiws eixa dwsei thn paraithsh mou pou
shmainei pws hthela na fygw apo monos mou), tous ta epsalla
ena xeraki legontas tous pws bazontas katw o enas ton allo
den me kanei na aisthanomai kallitera, kai epeita
einai toulaxiston antiepaggelmatiko na meiwnontai metaksy
tous, mprosta sta matia mou...

Tote to riksane sto ethnikistiko filotimo... (megales
koufales)... "den mporei" mou eipan "na afhsoume na
fygoun oi apogonoi tou Eukleidh" .... ase pou to eipan
Giouklidis, kai mou anakatepsan ta antera, toso me thn
ypokrisia oso kai me thn pseutokolakeia pou deixnei
kai exei h parapanw grammh...

Telika kai meta apo arketes apsimaxies mexri tis 7 h wra
xthes to brady(didaska ena mathima xthes kai afhsa olh
thn taksh na perimenei mia wra) allaksa thn apofash mou
alla h alhtheia einai pws isxyei kai edw h gnwsth laikh
Ellhnikh paroimia: ama ragisei to gyali...

Pantws re paidia, na theleis na paraiththeis kai na
mh se afhnoune... mono sthn amerikh symbainei auto...
kserw, tha peite shkwnesai kai feugeis kai tous grafeis,
ti tha sou kanoun, den mporoun na se krathsoun me to zori...

E, nai de lew, alla ama ftaseis na zeis apo to epaggelma sou
kai mono, to skeftesai... thelw na fygw me tous idious
kalous oiwnous me tous opoious iltha, den thelw "hard or
hurt feelings", kai thelw aurio methaurio na exw ena dyo
references kai apo edw... na exw orismenes kales anamnhseis...

Kai twra ti ginetai??? Pou paei h balitsa?

Pantws osoi apo sas kanete tis spoudes sas kai exete san
skopo na gyrisete se kapoia mellontikh fash monima sthn
Ellada, phgainete kana kalokairi na doulepsete se idiwtikh
etaireia, na deite to entatika sklhro kai panw ap ola
yperagxwdh tropo pou prepei na ergasteis gia na petyxeis...
Edw den einai oute goverment job na kyttas to ntabani,
oute ellhniko dhmosio na exoun 10 atoma na kanoun douleia
gia enan... edw ginetai to antitheto. Prepei o kathenas
na kanei douleia gia 10, kai alloimono se opoion den ta
katafernei. Phgainete gia ligo na parete mesa sas auto to
mhxaniko styl pou prepei na afomoiwseis, an kai den
xreiazetai na to uiothethsete nomizw oti tha einai
megalh empeiria. Osoi apo sas douleuete se idiwtikes
etaireies(kai h Hellas einai gemath apo ergazomena
paidia se full time) katalabainete ti ennow. Isws kai
na taxete perasei kai na sas fernw sto myalo asxhmes
katastaseis, alla opws leei kai ena moto katw sto
isogeio "life is tough all over!"

Nikos Gavrielatos
To Sixameno Plasma
ucnick@socrates.umd.edu
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