Which would you prefer?

Started by deanwebb, June 14, 2016, 03:44:47 PM

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deanwebb

June 14, 2016, 03:44:47 PM
To have full budget for a system implementation, to be able to get it going 100%, only to have it deactivated and you get laid off because your company chose to not continue with it...

OR...

To keep your job as long as you want it, because you're the only one that knows everything about a poorly-funded, barely-implemented system?

:think:

Not a situation I face... but I think I'd rather have the first than the second.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
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Otanx

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June 14, 2016, 05:48:57 PM
I could take either one, but I would lean towards option two. The full deployment of a system will look pretty awesome on my resume while I look for a new job, but the job security on option two is important to me. However, the "as long as you want it" wouldn't be very long. I would spend my time making it the best documented poorly-funded, barely-implemented system in existence so that I could move on to something else with a clear conscience. If I could beg, borrow, or re-purpose (I don't steal) any equipment to make it better I would be doing that till it was a awesomely documented, poorly-funded, well-implemented system.

Option two tends to describe my job history. Work somewhere till the network is humming, and fully functional then get bored and move on. My current job has kept me interested by growing so fast I can't get to the fully functional part.

-Otanx

deanwebb

#2
June 14, 2016, 07:59:55 PM
Yeah, option two often happens without any alternative... I like your take on it. :)
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Reggle

#3
June 15, 2016, 08:44:16 PM
Tough choice. I've had both and I'm not sure. I guess the real point is being able to live with both situations.

Nerm

#4
June 20, 2016, 10:45:50 AM
Before kids option 1, after kids option 2 lol.

NetworkGroover

#5
June 20, 2016, 11:01:48 AM Last Edit: June 20, 2016, 11:24:46 AM by AspiringNetworker
Quote from: Nerm on June 20, 2016, 10:45:50 AM
Before kids option 1, after kids option 2 lol.

Truth ..... it's funny how devastating having two young children can be to your drive/studies.  I know there are exceptions out there that do it anyway because they have super-supportive and impossibly-patient wives... or are fanatically dedicated, but for the rest of us... lol
Engineer by day, DJ by night, family first always

deanwebb

#6
June 20, 2016, 02:50:29 PM
It's tons easier to study when the kids are in the other room, logging hours on Skyrim or Fallout. They only holler when I reboot the firewall that I'm labbing on... :matrix:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

NetworkGroover

#7
June 21, 2016, 11:19:05 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on June 20, 2016, 02:50:29 PM
It's tons easier to study when the kids are in the other room, logging hours on Skyrim or Fallout. They only holler when I reboot the firewall that I'm labbing on... :matrix:

Hehe that's pretty funny...

Yeah... wish I could get that much time without 'someone' needing 'something' - especially with a 4 and 6 year old... someone takes someone's toy.. someone wants a drink.. someone wants me to get off my arse and clean house/laundry/whatever.  For someone like me with ADD (not joking), I get eternally frustrated when I'm trying to concentrate on what I'm working on (because I have to concentrate 2x as hard as the average person), and I get bothered every 5-10 minutes.

Maybe when they get older... if I'm not a Manager by then...
Engineer by day, DJ by night, family first always

deanwebb

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June 21, 2016, 11:43:43 AM
Block off the hours and head to the library. They tend to be quiet places, suitable for study.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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