[Equest-users] eQUEST Help Desk Funding

[Kevin Kyte]

Most receive paybacks from corporations (you can do your own research on corporations).  The one who may be self employed may have the freedom.  There is my transcendental thought for this transcendental link.  May the one who chooses to be self-employed do so by choice and desire, not from rejection from corporations.  Anywho, It is nice to sometimes read these unusual posts of (almost) enlightenment verse persons just needing answers to LEED questions.  This whole energy bust thing that we do through the remote viewing of computers is fairly new to us considering timeframes.  And I don't necessary appreciation of the fact that we are trying to reduce, constrain, mimimize, curtail energy.  It is still the same grid.

I do think equest help desk is a good idea and should probably be pursued, just a few years back when I was learning an equest for dummies book probably would have been pretty helpful.  One should be working diligently creating there own websites on equest help desks and tools or just write a book.  Look at what the sketchup school guys are doing, it is pretty good, but at the same sketchup tube vids are all over.  Right now though we are communicators, teachers, code interpreters because many people don't know and want to know or just make sure we give the right answers and as enforcement ramps up.  People need to know what we are talking about.  I am even still in a job right now where OK lets do energy code compliance when bid sets are due in 3 weeks.  Is anyone learning?  Some people need to find out the hard way.  Play ball!

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From: Wayne Seward [mailto:wayne at beartechnologys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:54 AM
To: 'eQUEST Users List'
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] eQUEST Help Desk Funding

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<http://www.beartechnologys.com>
wayne at beartechnologys.com<mailto: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<http://www.beartechnologys.com>
wayne at beartechnologys.com<mailto: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> [mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:cmg750 at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nely Martinez <nelymartinez at bellsouth.net<mailto: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
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Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:04:44
To: Nick Caton<ncaton at smithboucher.com<mailto:ncaton at smithboucher.com>>
Cc: eQUEST Users List<equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>>
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