Would you consider yourself an expert in your chosen field?

[mr. tegu]

I think I am pretty knowledgable about my field as a whole and would consider myself an expert with lots of room to learn. I really want to be an all out expert in a specialized area of my field which I am probably about 3/4 of the way to that.

[El Jefe]

No, I am good at what I do, and I take pride in it, but our field changes daily, and im not an expert on the past knowledge yet. My dad would definitely be considered an expert in our field, he is extremely respected in our area. I am good at what I do, but I have years worth of knowledge to learn at this point.

I'm good at the key elements of my trade. I'd love to make enough to hire an bookkeeper to push papers and bill my clients because I loathe that part of it. It's an ever changing industry with regard to new technologies, materials, building codes, and style choices. That's what keeps my attention. I love that aspect of it the job.

I'd rather write and interact with my community on a full-time basis but that doesn't pay the bills right now so it remains a hobby.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Phobia

I'd rather write and interact with my community on a full-time basis but that doesn't pay the bills right now so it remains a hobby.

Run for Mayor and then take bribes to make a living?

[jsmax]

Part of being an expert is understanding how much you have yet to learn to perfect your given craft, thus creating the situation where you think you are not an expert based on the things left to learn. Which is constantly changing with the technological advances in todays society.

[crossbow]

Nobody is as good as they think they are and as bad as other people tell them they are. In my 35 years of computer support, I have repaired over 40,000 computers and 10,000 printers of all kinds - ranging from desktops to mainframes. I had to work with:

1. DOS
2. Unix
3. OS/2
4. Novel
5. Microsoft
6. Java
7. Appletalk

And just about every email system devised by mankind.

At one point I was considered an expert but now I don't give a crap. Its called input overload. I have one standing professional rule...Never argue with an idiot.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by crossbow

Nobody is as good as they think they are and as bad as other people tell them they are. In my 35 years of computer support, I have repaired over 40,000 computers and 10,000 printers of all kinds - ranging from desktops to mainframes. I had to work with:

1. DOS
2. Unix
3. OS/2
4. Novel
5. Microsoft
6. Java
7. Appletalk

And just about every email system devised by mankind.

At one point I was considered an expert but now I don't give a crap. Its called input overload. I have one standing professional rule...Never argue with an idiot.

Don't know if you have any ideas but on my new i-phone 5 I can receive e-mail but not reply nor create and send,I've even spent over 2 hours on phone support with Apple and they are at a loss.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Don't know if you have any ideas but on my new i-phone 5 I can receive e-mail but not reply nor create and send,I've even spent over 2 hours on phone support with Apple and they are at a loss.

If it's an ISP's email, it's pretty much always because the outbound smtp settings aren't correct, so Googling 'iphone send email [your isp]' is a good place to start. Most ISPs should have a page like this that makes it easy. Of course, this would be step one for any competent help desk, but there's a reason I never talk to them...

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Don't know if you have any ideas but on my new i-phone 5 I can receive e-mail but not reply nor create and send,I've even spent over 2 hours on phone support with Apple and they are at a loss.

That's dependent on your mail server. Apple technicians wouldn't be able to help. Who is your e-mail provider?

Usually in situations where you can receive but not send, you're using a POP3 type e-mail account. Which has separate servers for receiving mail(POP3) and sending mail(SMTP). Things are working with the server that receives mail, but not with the server that sends mail.

Check with your e-mail provider to see what settings you need for the SMTP server. Including SSL authentication if needed, and port number. When you have that, get on your phone and go to Settings\Mail, Contacts, Calendars\AccountName\Account\Outgoing Mail Server. There you will enter the correct SMTP server, and any settings necessary to make it work. Usually you need SSL enabled, and not having that enabled will prevent it from working.

Hope that helps.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by Fish

That's dependent on your mail server. Apple technicians wouldn't be able to help. Who is your e-mail provider?

Usually in situations where you can receive but not send, you're using a POP3 type e-mail account. Which has separate servers for receiving mail(POP3) and sending mail(SMTP). Things are working with the server that receives mail, but not with the server that sends mail.

Check with your e-mail provider to see what settings you need for the SMTP server. Including SSL authentication if needed, and port number. When you have that, get on your phone and go to Settings\Mail, Contacts, Calendars\AccountName\Account\Outgoing Mail Server. There you will enter the correct SMTP server, and any settings necessary to make it work. Usually you need SSL enabled, and not having that enabled will prevent it from working.

Hope that helps.

Correct it is a pop3 account and I have contacted my e-mail server,my web page designer,Apple and even had a close friend who is good with these things and still no luck.I have the phone set up like my laptop which works fine and my previous phone,an android was set up the same and worked fine.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Correct it is a pop3 account and I have contacted my e-mail server,my web page designer,Apple and even had a close friend who is good with these things and still no luck.I have the phone set up like my laptop which works fine and my previous phone,an android was set up the same and worked fine.

Well the problem must be with the SMTP configuration portion. Something in that portion is not correct. That's the only logical possibility. I'd go back to the SMTP server settings, and when you get to the Primary Server field, click again on the server listing to bring up the details of the SMTP server. Ensure that host name is correct. Ensure that the user name is correct. I'd try both youremail@yourserver.com and simply "youremail" without the @yourserver.com. Enter your password again there as well. If you need SSL, be sure that it's turned on there. Be sure the port number is correct.

Be sure that you're using the e-mail address from the server you're sending from too. Meaning if you have 2 e-mail addresses, like joeblow@yahoo.com and joeblow@gmail.com, and you're trying to send mail using gmail's SMTP server, you have to provide the joeblow@gmail.com name and password for authentication to your SMTP server. I've seen people in that situation use another e-mail address, but SMTP servers will deny it unless it's an address from their service.

This type of issue is generally always a mixup of SMTP info details. There's very little else that would cause it to fail.

If none of that works, I'd delete the account from the phone, and add it again. You won't lose any e-mail or anything.

[Graystoke]

Just about any monkey could do my job.
But I am a dam good monkey

[cyborgtable]

I'm going to school for what I want to do so definitely not yet but I plan to be

[Bearcat]

If the magic 10,000 hour rule is true, then yes, at least a couple times over... but, there's so much to learn, I don't really feel like one. I had an interesting conversation with someone about whether you can be an expert in IT without having extremely deep knowledge in one area... I've never stuck with one thing long enough to know it inside and out, but have been troubleshooting problems with everything from Cobol to networking to Windows, Unix, scripting, Java, etc; for several years.

Sometimes I feel like I should specialize and become a subject matter expert in something (especially if it means never working with Windows again), but I like the variety and know quite a bit in several areas, even if it's only at an intermediate-advanced level.

[gblowfish]

I've done the same job for 26 years, so yeah, I pretty much got it down.