BreakPoint
This is Hooovahh
@Hooovahh wrote:
Chasing Greener Pastures
Yep, never change jobs just for more money. There are plenty of other reasons to leave a job (refuse to promote, horrible working conditions, boss is a @%$#%, etc.). But with that said, the only times I have gotten even a decent raise was by graduating (went from a technician to an engineer) or leaving a company.
There's a time/place/reason for it. Recently did that myself.
My side gigs were going well (snow/avalanche training, radio tech work). Wanted to take my snow training thing to the next level. Burned all my vacation in the winter doing the snow training thing. Couldn't balance 3 jobs. Restructured my businesses (the way I should have done it years ago).
Biggest regret is not doing this years earlier.
Got to the point where I really hated going to the desk job every morning. Corporate buyout/merger, the company wasn't what it was when I started.
Now, some days my office is a snowmobile in the mountains. Other days it's the cab of a snocat. Next week it might be the roof of a highrise building. Quick trip in a truck to the top of a mountain to fix a stack of misbehaving radios, then I spend a few days talking about tower rescues to a group of radio techs.
Know what I don't miss? Sitting at a desk all day long. Sometimes the pay isn't worth the bullsh_t that comes with it. (I don't pay myself jack, but my businesses are doing well 😉.) When running 3 businesses is less stress and more fun than one "real" job, something's wrong.
@Hooovahh wrote:
So they get the new job with the bump in pay and a new list of responsibilities.
Back in the early seventies, my uncle who worked in finance had a nice library. I was a teenager. He offered me free use of his library and I could borrow any book I want.
One of the first books I borrowed was The Peter Principle. Still all true!!
"How is this data going to get from our DAQ system, to the server?" - Hooovahh
"It will just go from here to there." - Clueless Manager
"No, what mechanism is there to transfer the data to the server's database?" - Hooovahh
"Ethernet." - Clueless Manager
"We need to do this, and this, and this." - My Boss
"Okay well first we need to talk it over with management before making a decision." - Bureaucrats
"…I am management, this is my decision" - My Boss
I got a phone call from someone in another department:
We have some questions. Are you in this 200 person group chat for the ongoing program?
No, and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t add me. - Hooovahh
I respect that.
@JÞB wrote:
I'm curious about the ratio of N people required to attend group Chat : N people attending group chat while updating their resume
It was roughly 5 people that get the work done, and understand their rolls very well. About 5 managers that should be kept up to date about the issue and how it is progressing. About 50 people that would interject random comments or questions that would derail the thread, causing no one to know who was talking about what. And another 140 or so people that sat in silence never responding, but likely feel important knowing their name is somehow associated with the discussion, while having no clue what is actually going on.
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
— Heraclitus
