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> My work didn't matter (it took them 4 months to stand up a server for a project I was working on) and my boss didn't understand what I did. Very cush. Could h
by pbronez 6y ago
> My work didn't matter (it took them 4 months to stand up a server for a project I was working on) and my boss didn't understand what I did. Very cush. Could have gotten away with a few hours a week of real work, though I still had to physically be there most of the time. I left for more money, plus ultimately having to surreptitiously waste 35 hours a week turns out to be quite draining.
Yup. I've occasionally landed on projects like this and had the same reaction. Sure, you can coast for NOW... but it always makes me feel like I'm rusting, and that the slow pace is undermining my competitiveness for the next position.
My view is that job security is your ability to get your next position. Any given job can blow up on you for reasons beyond your control. You have to continuously push yourself so you can easily pick up the pieces if/when that happens.
But 2008-11 was a formative experience for me, so maybe I'm just bitter.
- exikyut 6y ago> But 2008-11 was a formative experience for me, so maybe I'm just bitter. Sounds like an interesting and potentially insightful story...
- pbronez 6y agoPerhaps. My email is in my profile - reach out if you want to chat.
- redisman 6y agoPretending to work at an office for 7-8h is soul killing. If it was remote then it might be a different story as you could just work on something else.
- goatinaboat 6y agoMy view is that job security is your ability to get your next position. Any given job can blow up on you for reasons beyond your control. You have to continuously push yourself so you can easily pick up the pieces if/when that happens. But 2008-11 was a formative experience for me, so maybe I'm just bitter. Same with the dotcom crash. Those with sharp technical skills soon found work with old-skool companies when the dotcoms evaporated. The others struggled for a long time after.