Nobody is expecting you to only do what you enjoy, but you can work in the field you want if you're truly interested in doing it. Every job has stuff that is lame or outright sucks, but it doesn't have to be the majority of the work.
You have to decide what is important to you and go with that. If money is the most important thing, do what gets you money. If you're willing to live in some cramped little place eating top ramen to do work you enjoy, do that.
No one has to be glad they have a job. It's perfectly ok to try to improve your situation. That involves risks, which some people are willing to take and others are not.
I just figured out how to become fabulously wealthy.
Most of the managers I've worked with are clearly delusional and detached from reality. My plan is to replace middle managers with homeless people at 25% of the cost. I can make myself rich and help the homeless all at once.
Of course, I don't know what we'd do with all the future homeless ex-middle-managers.
There are jobs out there where they do have rules that make it difficult to look for other jobs.
I had one that required being there from 10:00 to 5:30 every day, no phone, not allowed to leave the premises at any time during those hours.
Everyone knows it's easier and more comfortable to look for a job while you have one, but sometimes that's not practical. And if you can afford to take some time off, it's not always a bad choice.
I would suggest increasing the number of products containing peanuts. This would have the side effect of decreasing the percentage of the population with life-threatening peanut allergies. In the end, everyone would be happy and we wouldn't have as many people willing to legislate every little detail of everyone else's life. Oh, except for all the dead people. I guess my plan doesn't work out too well for them.
In the US, companies look for new and innovative ways to double bill their customers. Phone companies and television providers are on the forefront of this new way of doing business. This is to increase profits while mitigating the impact of running out of ideas for good products.
I thought the point of CMM was to chuck cheaper, sacrafice faster, and replace "better" with "reproducible". The part that it does do well is demonstrate that all problems are the customers fault for not providing coherent specifications.
Due to limited availability of this technology, it's not surprising that they have no fraud. Start putting this on something gas pumps where you can buy something most people need on a regular basis and don't have to interact with people, and the fallability of this process will become much more apparent.
Maybe he's just assuming that anyone who wants to have a message etched into their fingers is has enough disrespect for authority to make it a negative message.
How many people are going to have their fingerprints replaced with "Thank you for all your vigilant efforts to keep each and every one of us safe"? Though, I suppose if enough people got a long message like that etched using the same process, font, etc, it would be a good snub at the idea of using fingerprints at all. =)
Thank you for that beautiful demonstration of the tao of technical opinions.
The sig is critical of those whose opinions are based on a limited view of the real world while the post criticizes those who would say the same thing about MySQL and the world of databases.
If you want to be treated like a CEO, get a CEO job. Whose fault is it if you're not willing to do what it takes to get one of those jobs?
Personally, I wouldn't want one of those jobs. Simply doing my job well (sysadmin/programmer/etc) and looking for ways to help the organization make more money or save money they're already spending all contributes to my value to the organization. I'd rather do things related to my chosen profession and make a decent living than have to do what a CEO has to do.
If that's the first question they ask, you're not going to get the job. If it's the last question they ask, like my last interview, the "no" won't outweigh everything else.
Whatever you do, don't avoid the issue. I put that I addended college for 7 years on my resume. I don't say I have a degree, but some people choose to read it that way. If someone asks, tell them the truth.
The wikipedia is a work in progress. If you want solid, factual information, meditate upon what truly constitutes fact or truth. Otherwise, you have to accept that all works, regardless of their source are prone to errors.
Finding and keeping updated a list of known subject matter experts in various fields to act as editors would be a great accomplishment for improving the quality of information within the wikipedia. However, that's a rather substantial demand to make out of an all volunteer effort.
As an educator, shouldn't you be teaching students that they should use many diverse sources in their research, and always question the inconsistencies?
Wikipedia's benefit to me is that I can find a fair amount of information on a topic quickly and it's organized in an intuitive manner. However, if I'm going to actually do something important, it certainly won't be the only source I use.
If you want a great open source operating system, you only need a handful of knowledgeable people.
If you want an operating system written by a million monkeys, you need a large corporate structure that doesn't require return on investment from any of the monkeys. The corporate structure would prevent the operating system from being great or open source. Of course, if you choose this path, you're likely to end up with a hokey operating system that looks good, and due to the creativity that monkeys frequently fail to exhibit, probably named after a trait of buildings that is commonly lacking in their monkey cube farms.
The pop tart correlation makes sense to me. They are small, individually wrapped servings with a high shelf life. Those qualities make them "survival food" for those people who are under the impression that pop tarts are food.
One time, I saw a reference on some tin foil hat wearing survivalist web site to keeping bags of peanut m&m's in the freezer for an emergency. They have sugar and protein, will last forever, and wont melt into a block if they're kept frozen.
When dealing with natural disasters, people do funny things. The scary part is that sometimes, they actually make sense.
I remember typing that program in from one of the Antic magazines. Those were the good ol days. Between 1-2 days to generate each picture. Now we can do it in a matter of seconds on the average PC. Takes all the pride of accomplishment out of it when it's that simple.
Decent and respectful working practices aren't rights. If you want those things, you have to earn them. You have to be valuable enough that you can get a job with a company that provides those privileges because they appreciate your contribution.
Unpaid overtime is a savings to the company in terms of real dollars. Money is everything to management. If you can't quantify a problem in terms of actual budget dollars, your concerns are not the company's concerns.
One way to get their attention is if the most knowledgeable and valuable people in the company either leave or refuse to accept these working conditions. People talk about being required to work until 10pm everyday, but that's a bluff that no one calls. If you want the situation to improve, don't stay late unless you believe that staying late today is going to make you feel better about finishing something.
Dissatisfied employees are less productive, which means the company is getting less for the money they're paying. Also, when people leave, there are real dollar costs with hiring and training replacements. Employee retention is something that some companies focus on, not because they're altruistic, but because losing important people with knowledge about your company and its products has a real cost in dollars.
Perpetual crunch time for a year and a half here, but I'm hourly. Companies pull this kind of scam on their employees, I work as a contractor.
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I think it's easier to just lump people into the pro-reality and anti-reality camps. It makes it much easier to understand where they are coming from.
As geeks, we get the same oversimplified view of the world that makes good and bad easier to see. A program either works or it doesn't. If I write a program and it doesn't execute, it's obviously not working. If it does execute, but doesn't provide the right result, it's not working. There are no limits to the reasons why programs don't work or don't work correctly. There are no limits to how many ways there are to make it work correctly. But in the end, it either works or it doesn't, and that's all that matters to us.
The rest of the world is rarely so straightforward. It could have something to do with the reality that we're all anti-reality at some time on some topics, and we're all anti-reality when it comes to knowing when the world would be better off if we just shut up.
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I see no conflict here. Ashlee Simpson could be that kid with a kazoo.
Nobody is expecting you to only do what you enjoy, but you can work in the field you want if you're truly interested in doing it. Every job has stuff that is lame or outright sucks, but it doesn't have to be the majority of the work.
You have to decide what is important to you and go with that. If money is the most important thing, do what gets you money. If you're willing to live in some cramped little place eating top ramen to do work you enjoy, do that.
No one has to be glad they have a job. It's perfectly ok to try to improve your situation. That involves risks, which some people are willing to take and others are not.
I just figured out how to become fabulously wealthy.
Most of the managers I've worked with are clearly delusional and detached from reality. My plan is to replace middle managers with homeless people at 25% of the cost. I can make myself rich and help the homeless all at once.
Of course, I don't know what we'd do with all the future homeless ex-middle-managers.
There are jobs out there where they do have rules that make it difficult to look for other jobs.
I had one that required being there from 10:00 to 5:30 every day, no phone, not allowed to leave the premises at any time during those hours.
Everyone knows it's easier and more comfortable to look for a job while you have one, but sometimes that's not practical. And if you can afford to take some time off, it's not always a bad choice.
Almost as funny as managers believing that authority == ability.
I would suggest increasing the number of products containing peanuts. This would have the side effect of decreasing the percentage of the population with life-threatening peanut allergies. In the end, everyone would be happy and we wouldn't have as many people willing to legislate every little detail of everyone else's life. Oh, except for all the dead people. I guess my plan doesn't work out too well for them.
In the US, companies look for new and innovative ways to double bill their customers. Phone companies and television providers are on the forefront of this new way of doing business. This is to increase profits while mitigating the impact of running out of ideas for good products.
I thought the point of CMM was to chuck cheaper, sacrafice faster, and replace "better" with "reproducible". The part that it does do well is demonstrate that all problems are the customers fault for not providing coherent specifications.
That's not as funny as it seems. Companies who have information as "assets" have sold those as part of settling their debts.
Mooby would be a great logo. There are enough weak minded cult followers out there. They could probably be convinced to convert by a golden calf.
And if this has already happened? Does sneezing again cause the demon to leave through your nose as well?
This could explain why I use FreeBSD - it's the demon. I'm sure I caught it from other BSD using demons.
Due to limited availability of this technology, it's not surprising that they have no fraud. Start putting this on something gas pumps where you can buy something most people need on a regular basis and don't have to interact with people, and the fallability of this process will become much more apparent.
Maybe he's just assuming that anyone who wants to have a message etched into their fingers is has enough disrespect for authority to make it a negative message.
How many people are going to have their fingerprints replaced with "Thank you for all your vigilant efforts to keep each and every one of us safe"? Though, I suppose if enough people got a long message like that etched using the same process, font, etc, it would be a good snub at the idea of using fingerprints at all. =)
Thank you for that beautiful demonstration of the tao of technical opinions.
The sig is critical of those whose opinions are based on a limited view of the real world while the post criticizes those who would say the same thing about MySQL and the world of databases.
If you want to be treated like a CEO, get a CEO job. Whose fault is it if you're not willing to do what it takes to get one of those jobs?
Personally, I wouldn't want one of those jobs. Simply doing my job well (sysadmin/programmer/etc) and looking for ways to help the organization make more money or save money they're already spending all contributes to my value to the organization. I'd rather do things related to my chosen profession and make a decent living than have to do what a CEO has to do.
If that's the first question they ask, you're not going to get the job. If it's the last question they ask, like my last interview, the "no" won't outweigh everything else.
Whatever you do, don't avoid the issue. I put that I addended college for 7 years on my resume. I don't say I have a degree, but some people choose to read it that way. If someone asks, tell them the truth.
WARNING: Do not taunt happy fun volcano.
This just seems like the kind of good intention that's bound to ironically cause the problem trying to be avoided.
The wikipedia is a work in progress. If you want solid, factual information, meditate upon what truly constitutes fact or truth. Otherwise, you have to accept that all works, regardless of their source are prone to errors.
Finding and keeping updated a list of known subject matter experts in various fields to act as editors would be a great accomplishment for improving the quality of information within the wikipedia. However, that's a rather substantial demand to make out of an all volunteer effort.
As an educator, shouldn't you be teaching students that they should use many diverse sources in their research, and always question the inconsistencies?
Wikipedia's benefit to me is that I can find a fair amount of information on a topic quickly and it's organized in an intuitive manner. However, if I'm going to actually do something important, it certainly won't be the only source I use.
If you want a great open source operating system, you only need a handful of knowledgeable people.
If you want an operating system written by a million monkeys, you need a large corporate structure that doesn't require return on investment from any of the monkeys. The corporate structure would prevent the operating system from being great or open source. Of course, if you choose this path, you're likely to end up with a hokey operating system that looks good, and due to the creativity that monkeys frequently fail to exhibit, probably named after a trait of buildings that is commonly lacking in their monkey cube farms.
The pop tart correlation makes sense to me. They are small, individually wrapped servings with a high shelf life. Those qualities make them "survival food" for those people who are under the impression that pop tarts are food.
One time, I saw a reference on some tin foil hat wearing survivalist web site to keeping bags of peanut m&m's in the freezer for an emergency. They have sugar and protein, will last forever, and wont melt into a block if they're kept frozen.
When dealing with natural disasters, people do funny things. The scary part is that sometimes, they actually make sense.
I remember typing that program in from one of the Antic magazines. Those were the good ol days. Between 1-2 days to generate each picture. Now we can do it in a matter of seconds on the average PC. Takes all the pride of accomplishment out of it when it's that simple.
Decent and respectful working practices aren't rights. If you want those things, you have to earn them. You have to be valuable enough that you can get a job with a company that provides those privileges because they appreciate your contribution.
Unpaid overtime is a savings to the company in terms of real dollars. Money is everything to management. If you can't quantify a problem in terms of actual budget dollars, your concerns are not the company's concerns.
One way to get their attention is if the most knowledgeable and valuable people in the company either leave or refuse to accept these working conditions. People talk about being required to work until 10pm everyday, but that's a bluff that no one calls. If you want the situation to improve, don't stay late unless you believe that staying late today is going to make you feel better about finishing something.
Dissatisfied employees are less productive, which means the company is getting less for the money they're paying. Also, when people leave, there are real dollar costs with hiring and training replacements. Employee retention is something that some companies focus on, not because they're altruistic, but because losing important people with knowledge about your company and its products has a real cost in dollars.
Perpetual crunch time for a year and a half here, but I'm hourly. Companies pull this kind of scam on their employees, I work as a contractor.
I think it's easier to just lump people into the pro-reality and anti-reality camps. It makes it much easier to understand where they are coming from.
As geeks, we get the same oversimplified view of the world that makes good and bad easier to see. A program either works or it doesn't. If I write a program and it doesn't execute, it's obviously not working. If it does execute, but doesn't provide the right result, it's not working. There are no limits to the reasons why programs don't work or don't work correctly. There are no limits to how many ways there are to make it work correctly. But in the end, it either works or it doesn't, and that's all that matters to us.
The rest of the world is rarely so straightforward. It could have something to do with the reality that we're all anti-reality at some time on some topics, and we're all anti-reality when it comes to knowing when the world would be better off if we just shut up.