GISCorps: What to Expect, What not to Expect

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Hard Work
Language Barriers
Cultural mis-understandings
You are 'intruding' in an agency with a long established culture and politics
Your outstanding professional abilities will not be fully understood
You will not be automatically welcomed and trusted by everyone
Your glorious vision will not be grasped right away
Not a very fast and well coordinated pace of work
Perhaps the universal contradiction between power-holders and knowledge developers
Real contact with people doing GIS in other places
Highly skilled and intelligent colleagues
A genuine desire to get to know you and your background
Opportunities to apply what you have learned from your mistakes during your lifetime GIS adventures