Comments on: Cattle, the Importance of Maintaining Fences–and Your Career http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/ Mon, 21 May 2012 19:27:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Margartet http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-77196 Margartet Thu, 03 May 2012 13:34:50 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-77196 Great article. Good advice Great article. Good advice

]]> By: Betty Jewell-Campbell http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-77058 Betty Jewell-Campbell Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:35 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-77058 Very interesting and reflective. Very interesting and reflective.

]]> By: Biswanath Dey http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-77018 Biswanath Dey Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:18:30 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-77018 More valuable instructions are invited through such type stories. More valuable instructions are invited through such type stories.

]]> By: Bob http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-76959 Bob Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:50:12 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-76959 The story of America. Being "fenced in" by your employer. The story of corporate America, rather. I would expect more from a UVA grad.... Oh wait....nevermind. The story of America. Being “fenced in” by your employer. The story of corporate America, rather.

I would expect more from a UVA grad….
Oh wait….nevermind.

]]> By: Khalid http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-76934 Khalid Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:29:11 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-76934 Wish I had read this before my marraige broke up... But its never to late to start :) Thanks Khalid Syed Wish I had read this before my marraige broke up…
But its never to late to start :)
Thanks
Khalid Syed

]]> By: Michael Tine http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-76856 Michael Tine Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:41:25 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-76856 Hello Sir Barnes, Having read your text, I'm so glad to receive the great meaning and to get the sense of it. It's so wonderful to learn your philosophy of life, to help me understand how people behave everywhere. I can add that "life is a school". Everyone must learn something new each day in if they want to have success in their life. That's the lesson I get from your message. Thank you for everything! I notice that sometimes we run into difficulties with the network, that's why I'm late to respond you correctly! Forgive me for this! Next week I will see your other messages and can reply to them in order to follow the good way you show me. Friendly yours, Michael TINE Hello Sir Barnes,

Having read your text, I’m so glad to receive the great meaning and to get the sense of it. It’s so wonderful to learn your philosophy of life, to help me understand how people behave everywhere. I can add that “life is a school”. Everyone must learn something new each day in if they want to have success in their life. That’s the lesson I get from your message.

Thank you for everything! I notice that sometimes we run into difficulties with the network, that’s why I’m late to respond you correctly! Forgive me for this! Next week I will see your other messages and can reply to them in order to follow the good way you show me.

Friendly yours,

Michael TINE

]]> By: Mery Onate http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/cattle-the-importance-of-maintaining-fences-and-your-career/#comment-76855 Mery Onate Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:03:06 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=7011#comment-76855 It was a nice lesson, thanks! Mery It was a nice lesson, thanks!
Mery

]]> 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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