Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.
I wished to sit in an open plan office where everyone could see me scratch my ass while all conversation and meetings were done via Slack and Zoom, even if we were next to each other.
I essentially quit the programming profession because of fucking open office plans. Just an absolute nightmare as far as actual productive coding environments are concerned.
i always wanted to go the extra mile, synergize, get the ball rolling, move the needle, think outside the box, and get out of my comfort zone. permanently
I just need to touch base so we can circle back.
You forget to mention that you wanted to do all this going forward.
Moving the needle is so satisfying
I’m glad I got the opportunity to leverage my skills and knowledge in order to drive customer engagement and deliver wins as a team.
Exactly! Nowadays hardly anyone thinks about the shareholders!! Think about the shareholders!!!
Don’t forget to over deliver and under promise. You’ll get paid the same, but it will make somebody else boatloads more money.
I prefer to talk out my ass and then get started and realize that what I promised is way harder than I thought and then have no life while I manic-panic my way to delivering, somehow.
I knew what synergy was and I wanted it.
Ever since I was a
sophomore in college(?)
I knew I wanted to
work cross functionally across teams
Otherwise I might be in yesterday’s Excel meme 😳 only a lil Excel/GSheets pls
Ooo! Are we playing Corporate Lingo Bingo?
It’s the hyperspecialization that is the problem. To ease the training of the labor force, they wanted to specialize everyone. However, generalists have their value too, as they act as the glue. But, management have forgotten that. All they care about employees that fit their small niche, which makes it hard for them to get employees and for others to get a job. I have given many interviews, where I was not as good with the manager’s niche and that sucked ass because whatever knowledge I am missing, I could easily learn it while working because I focussed to learning how to learn too. But, that was not good enough.
I used to be a programmer and probably my best strength was my ability to talk to clients, understand their needs, and design software that satisfied those needs. There are absolutely no certifications or formal qualifications of any kind for this in the programming world and employers do not look for it or give it any weight at all when filling positions, despite its obvious importance to the success of projects.
It’s so funny how colleagues and employees act as though their job is so niche no one could do it. Bro, YOU did it and you’re just some andy (respectfully). Anyone can do it.
I’ve seen some meme’s about imposter syndrome along the lines of “If it was really important, wouldn’t they get someone better to take care of it?” and they’ve actually helped me relax quite a bit about my work responsibilities.
Also, I want others to be able to do my job. Being the only person where I work familiar with my shit is such a pain in the ass! I want to work on new stuff, not be cursed to answer the same damn questions every day because no one can be bothered to read the documentation I wrote.
Yeah, I feel like any job should be doable by a wide range of people. I mean, the advantages are fairly obvious. I don’t know why would anyone want their jobs to be niche. If there is any work that is only doable by a handful of people, either change the way you do things or train more people to do it. At least that is what I believe.
Feel you! I am literally in the same situation right now.
Everyone wants to touch my base and I haven’t even started building one yet
Is this Patrick Bateman? Cause I’m reading this in his voice.
It sure is. Seems like something he might say unironically.
Bateman and all the other VPs did a lot of things but it didn’t seem like they ever did anything that could be considered work.
No, it’s not Bateman, that’s Batman.
He’s not the Krusty Krab
What are you doing Step Robin?
I think I actually did.
I always got told I could do whatever I wanted and didn’t know what I wanted to do. But I figured I didn’t want to do anything manual into old age so ruled that out. I knew I wanted to do a lot of different things and work with different people. But talking can be difficult.
Emails and working together with lots of other people and working on problem is great. Wearing a suit and making big decision seemed really interesting.
Work in general sucks but it beats the alternatives. Everyone on this website comes across as somewhat autistic. Dealing with people isn’t the end of the world.
My childhood dream job was not working in office.
