So how did you get stuck in your career, anyway?
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The bit of spam earlier got me thinking: what keeps you stuck at your job? Is it a good environment? Interesting work? A golden fish hook (lots of benefits that you can't seem to abandon)? Mortgage and/or alimony? Three children heading to college? How long have you been at your current position, and what would entice you away to a different one?
I've been a programmer for almost 34 years, and worked at my current job for a little over 23. A substantial pay increase, more interesting projects, or better conditions could entice me away. A big pay increase isn't likely, as I'm an old fart and already at the top of local pay scales. I will not take a managerial position just to get an increase. I can 'manage' if necessary, but I'm not tempermentally suited to it for the long term. More interesting projects would mean something that would give me exposure in programming environments other than the Windows desktop. Embedded, Linux, web stuff, data base, mobile, etc. This is probably the easiest of the three considerations. Better conditions would be difficult. My current employer has flex-time and provides a fitness room for employees. This means I can run or work out during my lunch break. We have local running routes ranging from 3 to 8 miles in flat to hilly elevations, plus trails. We're located about 12 miles from where I live, so it's a nice distance when I want to commute to work on my bike. Frankly, this concern outweighs the pay consideration for me. I can get the money anywhere.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
what would entice you away to a different one?
Quality tester at the Playboy club?
You do realize that a QA person finds the "defects" as well right?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
+5 :thumbsup:
Collin Jasnoch wrote:
the "defects"
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The bit of spam earlier got me thinking: what keeps you stuck at your job? Is it a good environment? Interesting work? A golden fish hook (lots of benefits that you can't seem to abandon)? Mortgage and/or alimony? Three children heading to college? How long have you been at your current position, and what would entice you away to a different one?
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The bit of spam earlier got me thinking: what keeps you stuck at your job? Is it a good environment? Interesting work? A golden fish hook (lots of benefits that you can't seem to abandon)? Mortgage and/or alimony? Three children heading to college? How long have you been at your current position, and what would entice you away to a different one?
I'm not stuck at all; are you? I don't have much mobility, of course, since people my age don't get hired. But the job's excellent, the pay far better than most in this area (though only 65% of the average for my position), and the cost of living is relatively low. I plan to stick here until I retire. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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The bit of spam earlier got me thinking: what keeps you stuck at your job? Is it a good environment? Interesting work? A golden fish hook (lots of benefits that you can't seem to abandon)? Mortgage and/or alimony? Three children heading to college? How long have you been at your current position, and what would entice you away to a different one?
I'm not stuck in my job or career. There's nothing else in life I want to do but build software. Been doing it for almost 30 years and can't think of anything else I'd rather do. If I won the $600M+ Powerball, I wouldn't quit my job or stop programming. Would prolly give most of it to charity and maybe buy a wireless mouse. /ravi
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
what would entice you away to a different one?
Quality tester at the Playboy club?
You do realize that a QA person finds the "defects" as well right?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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I'm not stuck in my job or career. There's nothing else in life I want to do but build software. Been doing it for almost 30 years and can't think of anything else I'd rather do. If I won the $600M+ Powerball, I wouldn't quit my job or stop programming. Would prolly give most of it to charity and maybe buy a wireless mouse. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
I've been doing this for almost 30 years as well. All of it with the same company, if you disregard the 2 times my company was bought by competitors in the last 12 years. I still enjoy what I do, more or less. After the last acquisition a couple years ago they closed the office where I worked so now I get to work from home, pretty much doing what I have been doing for almost 30 years. In some ways I am stuck in my career but in reality it is winding down any way. I have golden handcuffs. I can't expect to go somewhere else at my age and enjoy the same pay and benefits I currently have. That being said, if I win the $600M+ Mega Millions tonight I will not quit. I will however become very difficult to manage!
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I've been doing this for almost 30 years as well. All of it with the same company, if you disregard the 2 times my company was bought by competitors in the last 12 years. I still enjoy what I do, more or less. After the last acquisition a couple years ago they closed the office where I worked so now I get to work from home, pretty much doing what I have been doing for almost 30 years. In some ways I am stuck in my career but in reality it is winding down any way. I have golden handcuffs. I can't expect to go somewhere else at my age and enjoy the same pay and benefits I currently have. That being said, if I win the $600M+ Mega Millions tonight I will not quit. I will however become very difficult to manage!
txmrm wrote:
if I win the $600M+ Mega Millions tonight I will not quit. I will however become very difficult to manage!
:thumbsup: /ravi
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The bit of spam earlier got me thinking: what keeps you stuck at your job? Is it a good environment? Interesting work? A golden fish hook (lots of benefits that you can't seem to abandon)? Mortgage and/or alimony? Three children heading to college? How long have you been at your current position, and what would entice you away to a different one?
Well I'm a tart so it would take 2 shit pots of money to get me to move! While the environment I work in is bloody horrible it is a big shit pot!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Hear hear! Why spend 2 hours a day travelling to somewhere you don't want to be, surrounded by people you don't consider real friends, wearing clothes that you don't actually want to? All you get is stressed out, strung out, and frustrated by the other commuters. You get home, and it's too late to do much by the time you have unwound enough to go to bed ready for the next day of the same. And a large chunk of your wages goes in paying for all this! :wtf: Sod that. Life is too important to waste on things you don't want to do every day. OK, what I do has dull patches - coding is like that - but the balance I have is about right, I think.
+5 for the correct use of Hear! Hear! (I loathe seeing it written as here here!"
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