@rumtscho Hobbies, lol, no, I wish. Work yes, but not in the usual sense. I finally made some headway on a consulting contract and have an FTE offer worth looking into.
This is important to me because as I've alluded to in the recent past, I'm not thrilled with regular work lately.
In a manner of speaking. I've got those skills but mainly I've tried to make my mark in being a business professional, understanding how businesses actually operate and what they need, not just writing code according to someone's spec.
It's not as easy as it sounds because most businesses have no clue how they should be operating.
In my experience on both the employee and employer side, competent developers who also have good communication/business skills are incredibly difficult to find. It's nice to know that the educational institutions in some countries are recognizing that niche.
It's kind of lumped into "software engineering" here but they stop short of really getting into business knowledge, it's all just about how to model this or that.
Hmm, that actually sounds kind of similar to some of the business courses here... like my FT manager has that sort of background, mostly business and a tiny bit of programming/DB.
Actually, I have heard about more than the normal ratio, because I was an intern at a company which does quality consulting, and still have contacts to an old colleague from there
@rumtscho I guess most companies are WTF in their own way. But if I had to choose, I'd rather be with a shoot-from-the-hip startup that occasionally makes stupid mistakes than an overweight risk-averse company where I can't get anything useful done.
@rumtscho That is almost my job... and 2-3 years ago I thought I was done putting out fires because I'd spent so much effort improving our processes and our overall product quality. But now I have to put out other people's fires. It sucks.
@rumtscho Unfortunately, companies who do not understand technology almost always end up making the same stupid assumption that they need better processes as opposed to more/better people.
(and of course there's always an implicit assumption that executives and senior managers shouldn't have to follow the process... and they're the ones usually creating the fires that other people have to put out... sigh)
@Aaronut I think there is a casual link between @sobachatina's statement that their CEO has a cubicle exactly like everybody else and that his company is on the Fortune 500 list of best employers.
Consulting for smaller companies is really great in that respect because you don't have to convince them of this. Going from 0 to 10 kph is way more noticeable than going from 90 to 100.
@rumtscho lol, I don't know where he works but I wonder about that kind of thing. Often you hear of CEOs "working in" cubicles but either they're hardly ever in the office or they spend all day in a conference room.
I don't think that CEOs should work in cubicles. I'm not impressed by that. I want to see the opposite, offices for everyone who needs privacy.
@Aaronut I don't think that his location matters as much. It is more the fact that he considers himself to be one of his people, not somebody for whom the rules don't apply.
Executive micromanagement is actually more common in smaller companies. In larger companies, the more pernicious problem is executives making decisions in a vacuum, decisions that negatively affect their workers without knowing or understanding all the facts.
Working in a cubicle isn't really going to change that, IMO.
It's a nice gesture and I certainly won't fault CEOs or other execs who do that in order to make a statement... but what really matters is how they operate from day to day, not what they do for show.
I know I sound cynical, but I've personally witnessed a few different execs who try to make these kinds of statements but still end up showing little regard for their staff.
Because let's face it, it is freaking hard running a company of more than 10 people and having any clue what's going on beneath you. That's why they hire HR and middle managers.
I think I got off track there. Anyway, I looked at the tags and there seem to have been hardly any contest questions in the past week. You can look at the mod analytics and see for yourself what the net effect is...
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For example, will adding water or cow's milk to coconut cream make a usable coconut milk?
Or by reducing coconut milk, can I get coconut cream?
