[Equest-users] eQUEST Help Desk Funding

[Wayne Seward]

While this software may be free, it wasn't free to make.  I have personally
written software of this nature in the past and let me tell it's not easy.
It takes a lot of skill, experience, and effort and often sleepless nights.
Likewise, to provide one-on-one level support for this or any software of
this nature takes a lot of skill, experience, and effort. If anyone has the
skills and experience to offer this level of one-on-one support and another
person is willing to pay them for their time and expertise, well I just
don't understand the problem.  It takes just about as much knowledge,
experience and effort to support this kind of software at that level as it
does to build the software in the first place.

 

One last question, would it be better to see Carol or anyone with her level
of experience go away because we think it is wrong to want to be compensated
for her experience. Or would it be better to support her in her choices and
maybe she will continue to stay around and help to those of use that
appreciate her help and support? 

 

I don't know about the rest of the folks in this group but I work hard every
day to earn a living, and lately it's getting harder to do that.  I don't
have the time to provide hours of free support, but I do appreciate and
support anyone that can.

 

Thank you for your time and your ear, and I hope you can find a way to
support free enterprise.

 

Wayne Seward, CEA, LEED AP BD&C

Bear Technologys

7774 Calle Mejor, Carlsbad, CA 92009

Office: 760.635.2327 Fax: 760.683.6889

www.beartechnologys.com

wayne at beartechnologys.com

 

a Service-Connected Disabled-Veteran Owned Business

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Wayne
Seward
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:26 AM
To: 'eQUEST Users List'
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] eQUEST Help Desk Funding

 

Hi Carol,

 

for what it is worth, you provide a great service and it is your right to
give it away or charge for it, only you can decide. If I may make a
suggestion, provide the service that you can, some are happy to pay you but
there will always be those that won't want to pay. Don't listen to the
nay-sayers. 

 

It sounds like some folks would be happy to pay you for your services and
could benefit from your hard earned experience.

 

One of my favorite Buddhist says roughly translates to "all things are for a
positive reason".

 

Good luck  

 

Wayne Seward, CEA, LEED AP BD&C

Bear Technologys

7774 Calle Mejor, Carlsbad, CA 92009

Office: 760.635.2327 Fax: 760.683.6889

www.beartechnologys.com

wayne at beartechnologys.com

 

a Service-Connected Disabled-Veteran Owned Business

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Carol
Gardner
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 4:25 PM


To: nelymartinez at bellsouth.net
Cc: eQUEST Users List

Subject: Re: [Equest-users] eQUEST Help Desk Funding

 

See earlier email about training. 

Thank you Nely.

Dear All,

The problem that people seem to be having is that they think it's either one
thing or the other thing. It is never that. As Thich Nhat Hanh says about
non-duality: positive and negative exist together and are organic; you can't
make compost without garbage;you can't grow flowers as well without compost.
Don't turn yourself into a battlefield of right/wrong, should/shouldn't,
free/not free. Another Buddhist concept is desirous attachment. Do you need
to be paid and not pay others for advice? Do you need to be employed and not
allow self employed people to make money? Do you want more, more and more
while others have less, less, and less? Do you want BP to continue to spill
oil and to not take yourselves out of the your comfort zone to help? Today I
asked myself, where can I do the most good? Here or LA or Fla or where? I
heard that I would do the most good here doing what I do best. Doing what I
have done for over 25 years. But I hear you, Nick and the gentleman from
SMUD say no, I want to do it for free. You has to be one or the other. 

I guess you must feel that you don't have enough. I am so sorry for you if
that is true! Only you know what is in your heart. Take a minute to notice
and to count your abundant blessings: employment, steady pay check, health
insurance, family, friends, health, wealth. Treat others who have a lack of
any of that with kindness.

In heart and with truth,

Carol Gardner PE

The key to restoring balance is to acknowledge the discomfort, pay attention
to it, and allow it to be released the way it wants to go. Deepak Chopra

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Carol Gardner <cmg750 at gmail.com> wrote:

 

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nely Martinez <nelymartinez at bellsouth.net>
wrote:

Carol it seems to me that you are a wealth of information. Maybe you should
start doing advanced Equest training classes. I have traveled to New York
and Cleveland for seminars that have helped very little. I live in Miami,
Florida and would travel to learn what you know.
Nely
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Gardner <cmg750 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:04:44
To: Nick Caton<ncaton at smithboucher.com>
Cc: eQUEST Users List<equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] eQUEST Help Desk Funding

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