This week I have been going back and forth with an RCI member in Canada, helping them to be able to do an exchange online.
I have done that many times over the years, helping people who don't even understand the basics of how to use their RCI membership, people who have been relying on the information Guides give them or those who have been waiting and waiting, relying on what they have been told, but never getting any results.
I do not seek Newbies out, say by trolling the Newbies Board. They find me, normally through my SW FLorida in January thread. I don't seek them because, frankly, each one is very time-consuming. Showing them how to search for themselves, and trying to do it by email, is like trying to teach someone a new language.
But, I don't skrimp with those who find me, and take the time to help them help themselves. As someone once said, you can give a man a fish and feed them for a day or you teach them to fish and they can feed themselves forever.
It is humbling, and reminds me that I was once there myself.
In many of our discussions we are in the stratosphere of timesharing, with topics way above the Newbies.
I have done that many times over the years, helping people who don't even understand the basics of how to use their RCI membership, people who have been relying on the information Guides give them or those who have been waiting and waiting, relying on what they have been told, but never getting any results.
I do not seek Newbies out, say by trolling the Newbies Board. They find me, normally through my SW FLorida in January thread. I don't seek them because, frankly, each one is very time-consuming. Showing them how to search for themselves, and trying to do it by email, is like trying to teach someone a new language.
But, I don't skrimp with those who find me, and take the time to help them help themselves. As someone once said, you can give a man a fish and feed them for a day or you teach them to fish and they can feed themselves forever.
It is humbling, and reminds me that I was once there myself.
In many of our discussions we are in the stratosphere of timesharing, with topics way above the Newbies.
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