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Agreed, though I'd modify "software company as opposed to working in an IT department" to "work on something profitable". :-) I don't work at a software compa
by unit91 9y ago
Agreed, though I'd modify "software company as opposed to working in an IT department" to "work on something profitable". :-)
I don't work at a software company, or even a traditional "tech" company, but I write the software that powers our most profitable product. Since I'm the odd-man-out, and the higher-ups love org charts, they stuck me in the IT department. Net effect: IT just became a profit center and everybody in the company knows it.
- kzisme 9y ago> something profitable Would that be the primary product of your company, or something that empowers other employees to work faster, and push _their_ products more easily?
- unit91 9y agoPersonal preference. In my situation, it's a retail product at a company that has a lot of other retail products. The one I work on just happens to be very profitable, so it gets a lot of attention. But I'd be very happy working on the empowering problem you mentioned too. I've been blessed by having experience in several, very different kinds of applications (web apps to avionics). Over time, I've realized the specifics of the problem at hand are more-or-less irrelevant to my happiness. I'm looking for something that's sufficiently technically challenging, where I can be surrounded by honest, friendly people, and make decent money.
- kzisme 9y ago> I'm looking for something that's sufficiently technically challenging, where I can be surrounded by honest, friendly people, and make decent money. This is very close to my real goal as well - but CRUD apps seem like the norm lately :(
- jimmywanger 9y agoWithout internal billing, only the first thing (profits from products) is measurable, and the second thing is mostly invisible.