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What type of work do your nomad friends do? Freelance design? Copywriting? Programming?

by da02 8y ago

d357r0y3r 8y ago
Mostly marketing/copywriting types and designers. Some programmers, although that seems to be rarer - could have something to do with what personalities are drawn to these professions.
- mmirate 8y ago
  > marketing Ah, yes, that would indeed explain. And it certainly agrees with the accounts I've heard about my employer's Marketing department's abject stupidity.
  - da02 8y ago
    Are you saying the stupidity comes from using remote workers? What are some anecdotes you've heard recently?
    - mmirate 8y ago
      Aside from the usual "we promised the customer we can do X; whaddaya mean you need 8 months to make it happen!?" ... here's one of the anecdotes: * * * The company makes numerous products. Some people in one of our other locations made a new product, and it was being demonstrated at some kind of trade show. So Marketing has T-shirts made for the show, with designs that look like a Beetles album cover, and words to the effect of "Meet the Developers of new product". Except, of the four or five faces on the shirt's design, only two belong to people who actually worked on that product. Another one or two are developers from a different team; and another one is one of the QAs on my team. This particular QA, I might add, has a ... let's say it's an unprofessional-looking face and leave it at that. * * * Conclusion: our Marketing department is stupid, therefore I'm not surprised that other Marketing people are stupid enough to buy into the glamour of digital nomadry.
      - da02 8y ago
        Any more anecdotes? "In Search of Stupidity" by Rick Chapman covers stupidity before digital nomads (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-Disasters/dp/1590597214 https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-Dis...). But, it sounds like digital nomadry is a tool being misused like other tools in this Dilbert-esque environment you work in. How do I get a job in this marketing dept.? I have NO experience in marketing, but my common sense is good half the time. I'm sure I can make fewer blunders than the current team.

What type of work do your nomad friends do? Freelance design? Copywriting? Programming?

by da02 8y ago

What type of work do your nomad friends do? Freelance design? Copywriting? Programming?

Mostly marketing/copywriting types and designers. Some programmers, although that seems to be rarer - could have something to do with what personalities are drawn to these professions.

mmirate 8y ago
> marketing Ah, yes, that would indeed explain. And it certainly agrees with the accounts I've heard about my employer's Marketing department's abject stupidity.
- da02 8y ago
  Are you saying the stupidity comes from using remote workers? What are some anecdotes you've heard recently?
  - mmirate 8y ago
    Aside from the usual "we promised the customer we can do X; whaddaya mean you need 8 months to make it happen!?" ... here's one of the anecdotes: * * * The company makes numerous products. Some people in one of our other locations made a new product, and it was being demonstrated at some kind of trade show. So Marketing has T-shirts made for the show, with designs that look like a Beetles album cover, and words to the effect of "Meet the Developers of new product". Except, of the four or five faces on the shirt's design, only two belong to people who actually worked on that product. Another one or two are developers from a different team; and another one is one of the QAs on my team. This particular QA, I might add, has a ... let's say it's an unprofessional-looking face and leave it at that. * * * Conclusion: our Marketing department is stupid, therefore I'm not surprised that other Marketing people are stupid enough to buy into the glamour of digital nomadry.
    - da02 8y ago
      Any more anecdotes? "In Search of Stupidity" by Rick Chapman covers stupidity before digital nomads (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-Disasters/dp/1590597214 https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-Dis...). But, it sounds like digital nomadry is a tool being misused like other tools in this Dilbert-esque environment you work in. How do I get a job in this marketing dept.? I have NO experience in marketing, but my common sense is good half the time. I'm sure I can make fewer blunders than the current team.