Politics: Most folks who have worked in industry a while and moved to University don't grok the culture shift, esp. the academic side of the house. Personal relationships and consensus building is critical for success. "Top down" management style is met with fierce resistance. Everyone *thinks* he/she is your boss.
Money: If you are doing this for the money you need to seek psychiatric assistance. Guarantee: You will be grossly underpaid for your work. Unless you are a consultant in which case you can charge $250/hr and deliver a half baked system 2yrs late and still get paid.
Expectations: You will find two classes of employees: Intractable, lazy, incompetent and bright, enthusastic, and capable. Over time it will become hard to distinguish one group from the other.
So why bother? You will learn a lot on your own and be given lots of autonomy to deliver systems the way you want. If you are self motivated, have lots a ideas and can deal with the quirky personalities you will fit right in.
Best fo luck!
I thought the whole point of the RH suit was to squelch SCO from damaging RH business. Waiting for IBM to win doesn't help. I think the judge just screwed RH.
Well put. Pretty much sums up my wife and I's experience. Glimpsed just a few episodes of original season 1 switching the channel furiously as I couldn't get past the Muppet effect. However, season 2 had much better screenplay writing. Characters assume the "natural" feel as you put it. I really appreciate the way the writers developed the characters emotionally-- something that is summarily overlooked in pop scifi.
You can get free arial photos, demographics, census, etc for most US counties, cities, zipcodes heck your neighbors info at: terrafly.com.
Can't wait till they put online the 1 centimeter data. hehe...
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Politics: Most folks who have worked in industry a while and moved to University don't grok the culture shift, esp. the academic side of the house. Personal relationships and consensus building is critical for success. "Top down" management style is met with fierce resistance. Everyone *thinks* he/she is your boss. Money: If you are doing this for the money you need to seek psychiatric assistance. Guarantee: You will be grossly underpaid for your work. Unless you are a consultant in which case you can charge $250/hr and deliver a half baked system 2yrs late and still get paid. Expectations: You will find two classes of employees: Intractable, lazy, incompetent and bright, enthusastic, and capable. Over time it will become hard to distinguish one group from the other. So why bother? You will learn a lot on your own and be given lots of autonomy to deliver systems the way you want. If you are self motivated, have lots a ideas and can deal with the quirky personalities you will fit right in. Best fo luck!
I thought the whole point of the RH suit was to squelch SCO from damaging RH business. Waiting for IBM to win doesn't help. I think the judge just screwed RH.
Well put. Pretty much sums up my wife and I's experience. Glimpsed just a few episodes of original season 1 switching the channel furiously as I couldn't get past the Muppet effect. However, season 2 had much better screenplay writing. Characters assume the "natural" feel as you put it. I really appreciate the way the writers developed the characters emotionally-- something that is summarily overlooked in pop scifi.
You can get free arial photos, demographics, census, etc for most US counties, cities, zipcodes heck your neighbors info at: terrafly.com. Can't wait till they put online the 1 centimeter data. hehe...