Comments on: Cattle, the Importance of Maintaining Fences–and Your Career http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:57:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: NO http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-19626 NO Sat, 14 May 2011 19:30:37 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-19626 This is wrong. Employers need to o a better job of valuing their employees and trying to be ethical. This is wrong. Employers need to o a better job of valuing their employees and trying to be ethical.

]]> By: Piper http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-8354 Piper Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:24:14 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-8354 I think you missed some serious aspects of cattle management. True, fencing is critical. But so, too, is deworming and other medical care. The pastures don't take care of themselves. Periodically, they have to be dressed -- fertilizers and such. The cattle should be rotated among various pastures to give an area of grass a chance to recover so it doesn't go barren. And, of course, there's that pesky reproductive physiology business. By the time I got to law school, I could no longer live on the farm. I lived in the city. I had little time for friends or family (ditto for the seventeen years as a litigator with the Justice Department, All too often, travel controlled what I could do. I sold the horses. The cattle became a distant memory. Work controlled my life. And THAT is what made me successful in my job. And I had it better than many who traveled three weeks a month. SO in theory, it's nice to think about doing things right -- and certainly getting along with people in the office environment figures prominently in success. But all too often, this thing called the practice of law is a harsh mistress that robs us of many of the things we should be doing. I think you missed some serious aspects of cattle management. True, fencing is critical. But so, too, is deworming and other medical care. The pastures don’t take care of themselves. Periodically, they have to be dressed — fertilizers and such. The cattle should be rotated among various pastures to give an area of grass a chance to recover so it doesn’t go barren. And, of course, there’s that pesky reproductive physiology business.

By the time I got to law school, I could no longer live on the farm. I lived in the city. I had little time for friends or family (ditto for the seventeen years as a litigator with the Justice Department,

All too often, travel controlled what I could do. I sold the horses. The cattle became a distant memory. Work controlled my life. And THAT is what made me successful in my job. And I had it better than many who traveled three weeks a month.

SO in theory, it’s nice to think about doing things right — and certainly getting along with people in the office environment figures prominently in success. But all too often, this thing called the practice of law is a harsh mistress that robs us of many of the things we should be doing.

]]> By: Hunter http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-8311 Hunter Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:08:45 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-8311 A.H.B. - You sound lie the typical person who constantly misquotes Frost's "Mending Wall" - specifically the line "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors." Maybe you should read the poem again, for the first time, and reconsider your writing. I also now know why nobody ever saw you at UVA. You were out in the country making friends with four hooved creatures instead of getting to now you classmates. That explains a lot. A.H.B. – You sound lie the typical person who constantly misquotes Frost’s “Mending Wall” – specifically the line “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.” Maybe you should read the poem again, for the first time, and reconsider your writing. I also now know why nobody ever saw you at UVA. You were out in the country making friends with four hooved creatures instead of getting to now you classmates. That explains a lot.

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