Dmitry Antonyuk. Personal site.

Some efforts put by the person to make things happen and the following discussion with that parson inspired me to write this post.
The person was applying person’s natural skills to put things in a right order by organizing other people. It was difficult as it is difficult to manage people. Other difficult point was that the person doesn’t have any formal power to manage those people.
I was observing this type of the person’s behavior for a long time. The efforts pay off, but difficult.
But the person definitely has an ability to organize others and really cares about the things person is involved in.
My advices were:

• to keep behaving so despite all difficulties;
• to train these skills to be able to apply them in the future and get additional advantages in comparison with others;
• to find out what type of job fits person’s skills and wishes the best;
• try to apply all above-mentioned points to make a life a bit more colorful.

To all:
do not hesitate to apply and train your natural skills even if they are marginal in the society/people-group around you;
do preferably what is interesting for you;
do not hesitate to ask for advice.

To the person: Keep so!

Dmitry Antonyuk. Zhytomyr.

I’ve just read an article How Millennials Learn from the clomedia.com.
I have a serious doubt.
“We need and want guidance and direction.”…
But the problem of a lot of “Millennials” is the presence of “need” and the absence of “demand”.
Let’s form a demand!

This idea was for a long time walking around my brain:
– Do we understand who we are and where we are?
– Are we going to go somewhere?
– If we are going to go somewhere, do we really thing “where to go” and “how to get there”?
Above-mentioned idea has been inspired by:
– Teaching students at Zhitomir State Technological University (ZSTU) for 6 years.
– Virtual comparison of Zhitomir State Technological University and Dnipropetrovsk University of Economics and Law (DUEP) and the personalities of their rectors (my personal experience of the communications with them).
– Observing people working around me.

Working and communicating with the students I am trying to recall myself being in the same situation. Telling about me, despite uncertainty on the 90-th where I’ve spent most part of my childhood and youth I had some goals. I can honestly say, that I didn’t know the way I had to take, but I was trying and I would be glad to listen to anybody looking capable in giving me any directions to go to reach my goals. There were not too many tellers, I should assume:  mostly people were “from the Soviet Union”, those who succeed to achieve something were either busy of achieving more or were not sure about it was the result of their sequential work of just a big luck. So, I had to study from people myself, deciding what habits, knowledge, behaviors, actions might be useful to me for reaching my goals.
People from whom I have something to study were:

• My father.
• Mehed Vasiliy Fyodorovich – owner of the Samara LLC (internet provider, “000” taxi service and the car-dealer).
• Kondratyuk Dmitry Ivanovich – owner of the ORTA Corporation.
• Podkorytov Victor – CTO of Samara LLC (internet division)
• Holod Boris Ivanovich – rector of the Dnipropetrovsk University of Economics and Law.
• Jan Kees de Jager – former co-owner of ISMeCompany and present Minister of Finance of The Netherlands.

There were a lot to study: positive and negative, useful right that time and now only, big and small. I wanted to adsorb more knowledge. Nobody told me to do that, it was self-driven desire. I could do much more that time, I understand it now.
I am able to share my knowledge, I know quite some people around willing to share their knowledge. Nobody requires.
Tell me why, please. You may do it in the comment to this post.

About my “virtual comparison” of Zhitomir State Technological University and Dnipropetrovsk University of Economics and Law and the personalities of their rectors.
I’ve got my 2 high educations at ZSTU I was teaching at ZSTU for 6 years, I was getting PhD at DUEP.[Unfortunately for me I had not time or, may be, just didn’t put appropriate efforts to finish my PhD thesis in the area I really like and I am interesting in “Economical approach of the Intellectual property relations in Ukraine”, at the institutions which is really developing constantly and what is the most important – with the people who are clever, pleasant in the communications and really passionate about their job.]
Short results of comparison:

• Please look at the sites: ZSTU vs.  DUEP. Do you feel who is the “central” at them? Student/potential student? Rector? Which site gives you a feeling of the “activity”? Where would you like to study? Please ask you more similar questions. It is not only about the sites – those are their “work-stiles”.
• Rector (and the other personnel) of DUEP talk to you as to the partner. Rector (and a part, not everybody, luckily, of the administrative personnel) of  ZSTU talk to you like you have a huge obligations towards them.
• DUEP: established 17 years ago vs. now.  ZSTU: established in 1960 vs. a bit decorated building now.
• Amount of work, improvements, activity done by DUEP impresses (look at the site). ZSTU is close to the state I observed it being a pupil of the First Town Lyceum in 1998.

Have any arguments? Provide it to me please.

Also observing people who were working around me during all past time, with the very bitter feeling I have to conclude that I see a lot of people who just follow the flow.
A lot of them are able to achieve better results, to become a real professional in their area, to become a bright artist or perfect mother/father/partner.
I understand some of them – they are aged, have families, but why younger people accept their present achievements? I don’t tell just about professional areas, there are a lot to improve in their relations with people who are close to them or to make their hobbies to bring them more pleasure.

Unfortunately I can’t show the ideal person. I am too far from there in all areas, unfortunately. But just think, please. Find a person who might be glad to see you enhancements, find an area which might get the next visionary/professional.
Find your way and your approaches.
And let me know please what do you think about this.

Dmitry Antonyuk. Zhytomyr. 29/11/2010

I’ve got some inspiration to write a post about “some differences” between “what I would like to earn” and “what I am going to do for those earnings”. Despite all our wishes “to be like a Europe”, we have to honestly remember that we are around 5 years behind in technological and organizational sens, and about 15 years behind in the sens of economical development. It looks like we have to work like a crazy (or better, like a very inspired by the possible future positive outcome) to develop Ukraine to the European country, and it is very sad to see, that only few of us are ready to do something to make our motherland better.
It is easy:
– Try to think what you are able to do better;
– Try to find how to do it better;
– Do it.
Sometimes you don’t need money to work more efficient, – you just need to optimize you way of doing things, than try to optimize the way people around you are working, show the difference to others.

Dmitry Antonyuk. Zhytomyr.