After 25+ years in this business and comparing notes from others in this and other business, my conclusions are: the worst jobs are in the newspaper, especially if an agency or bodyshop, headhunters have the middle level jobs, the best jobs are at cocktail parties (adjust for your region, my wife tells me it is beer and BBQ here in Texas) or via word of mouth. This last part is called networking by the buzzword-compliant. The best job I have had was gotten by going to a pizza and soda mixer for students and industry at a local university. I made a couple of comments in the question and answer period and one of the presenters tracked me down. The other top job came via rumor/gossiping with a colleague about a company I had traded business and favors with during a earlier period of self-employment. Nothing is more effective than talking to the people who do or supervise the work. Inflation in resumes has become frequent enough that face to face has much more credibility than a resume. Some jobs require you fill out the application on the spot so they know you are literate, can spell, and possibly have legible handwriting.
I have been reading newsgroups about SW Bell and how bad their ISP service is. ATT Worldnet is going thru the floor on customer satisfaction. Are there any good telco ISPs?
At least it tracked just a computer around the Internet. This tracks you! Not an employee who checked out the company laptop after you or your brother who borrowed it. Also, this is like having one user id and password for all your accounts. When someone figures out how to spoof it, look out. Melissa is a warning about monoculture systems. Bio-diversity and techo-diversity make for more robust systems.
Even with an expontential growth curve, big numbers don't happen overnight. Note that they said they are watching. As ERP and other big applications happen, the support will come. My martial arts instructor said to throw a large person, you have to pull very hard and for a long time. Big companies take time to be moved. Just keep pushing and don't let up. It will happen no other way.
This sounds like what happens in waking world real estate. Somes creative types find a place with cheap rent, do some incredibly creative things there, attract the middle-class, monied wannabees, who move in, raise the rents out of the reach of the creative types who move on to some other unwanted fringe. A few artists cash in, often cranking out clones of their original work and get rich or at least comfortable. The real estate agents also cash in. Me, I'm getting tired of moving.
It is a good, long read. Only good managers are going to take the time to read it. It is not all glowing, gushing cheerleading, but then I'm an engineer, not a PR person, so I value truth, facts and informed opinions. I took the time to read it all the way through on a slow link. If I was writing a review of it, I'd give it 3 1/2 stars out of four.
Yes I have. Admittedly they are not common. But then I have been in this field for over 25 years and have seen most everything, even excellent, practical managers.
Linux out performs Win95 on my 486 uni-processor. I have been tweaking MS-DOS/Win3/Win95 for over a decade, over 5 years on this box. I have been tweaking Linux for less than 6 months on the same hardware. Get a clue, Mindcraft.
Come on. How many Linux newbies are going to be running a quad Xenon system with 4GB of memory. Complaining that a newbie can't find the tuning info for it is gratuitous.
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After 25+ years in this business and comparing notes from others in this and other business, my conclusions are: the worst jobs are in the newspaper, especially if an agency or bodyshop, headhunters have the middle level jobs, the best jobs are at cocktail parties (adjust for your region, my wife tells me it is beer and BBQ here in Texas) or via word of mouth. This last part is called networking by the buzzword-compliant.
The best job I have had was gotten by going to a pizza and soda mixer for students and industry at a local university. I made a couple of comments in the question and answer period and one of the presenters tracked me down. The other top job came via rumor/gossiping with a colleague about a company I had traded business and favors with during a earlier period of self-employment.
Nothing is more effective than talking to the people who do or supervise the work. Inflation in resumes has become frequent enough that face to face has much more credibility than a resume. Some jobs require you fill out the application on the spot so they know you are literate, can spell, and possibly have legible handwriting.
I have been reading newsgroups about SW Bell and how bad their ISP service is. ATT Worldnet is going thru the floor on customer satisfaction. Are there any good telco ISPs?
All Anonymous Coward posts start at -1. By the time I saw it, it was moderated up to a 4.
At least it tracked just a computer around the Internet. This tracks you! Not an employee who checked out the company laptop after you or your brother who borrowed it. Also, this is like having one user id and password for all your accounts. When someone figures out how to spoof it, look out. Melissa is a warning about monoculture systems. Bio-diversity and techo-diversity make for more robust systems.
Even with an expontential growth curve, big numbers don't happen overnight. Note that they said they are watching. As ERP and other big applications happen, the support will come.
My martial arts instructor said to throw a large person, you have to pull very hard and for a long time. Big companies take time to be moved. Just keep pushing and don't let up. It will happen no other way.
Paranoia strike deep
into your life it will creep.
It starts when you are afraid
step out of line,
the men come and take you away.
by Buffalo Springfield, circa 1968
If you want fame, destruction is the easiest way to get it.
This sounds like what happens in waking world real estate. Somes creative types find a place with cheap rent, do some incredibly creative things there, attract the middle-class, monied wannabees, who move in, raise the rents out of the reach of the creative types who move on to some other unwanted fringe. A few artists cash in, often cranking out clones of their original work and get rich or at least comfortable. The real estate agents also cash in. Me, I'm getting tired of moving.
It is a good, long read. Only good managers are going to take the time to read it. It is not all glowing, gushing cheerleading, but then I'm an engineer, not a PR person, so I value truth, facts and informed opinions. I took the time to read it all the way through on a slow link. If I was writing a review of it, I'd give it 3 1/2 stars out of four.
Yes I have. Admittedly they are not common. But then I have been in this field for over 25 years and have seen most everything, even excellent, practical managers.
Linux out performs Win95 on my 486 uni-processor.
I have been tweaking MS-DOS/Win3/Win95 for over
a decade, over 5 years on this box. I have been
tweaking Linux for less than 6 months on the same
hardware. Get a clue, Mindcraft.
Come on. How many Linux newbies are going to be
running a quad Xenon system with 4GB of memory. Complaining that a newbie can't find the tuning info for it is gratuitous.