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Working at startups has been my solution to this wide problem. No startup will turn away a domain expert in a field they need help with. A corporation over a ce

by ipnon 5y ago

Working at startups has been my solution to this wide problem. No startup will turn away a domain expert in a field they need help with. A corporation over a certain size seems to glean all they need to know about me as soon as they see my bald head. Any social organization over a certain size seems to be allergic to people with much experience, I think because they cannot mold them into drones.

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
> No startup will turn away a domain expert in a field they need help with. This has not been my experience. Part of it may be that I don't really do the whole "self-promotion" thing so well. I'm pretty good at what I do. I have worked with many, many people that are much better than I am, so I don't let it get to my head. But whenever I mention what I'm good at, it's met with snorts of disbelief. That's crazy. I am not claiming to be Superman. I have a massive portfolio that proves what I claim. It has 30 or more (complete, documented, tested, and supported) repos, with over a decade of checkin history, and full source for a whole boatload of [mostly deprecated] shipping applications. Don't believe me? Clone the repo, and hit "Build." I have dozens of blog entries, articles, teaching series, etc.; all linked from my SO story. I even have the PDF manual for my very first engineering project, in 1987. What I can (and can't) do is not a matter for debate. Like I said, I have worked with many folks that make me look like a piker. Here's an example: About a month and a half ago, I responded to an article, where the author claimed we "never finished" anything. This was what I posted: >> I dare you to list three finished software projects. > I can probably list 30, and point to the repos. It's 100% true. You don't need to take my word for it. Simply look at my SO story. I link to it in my HN handle. Someone that obviously did not bother to do exactly that, posted a challenge, basically calling me a liar. I responded by throwing the seed into the nest, and posting a link to my SO story[0]. They never responded, after that. Like I said, I know that I'm pretty good at what I do, but I spent my entire career around folks that made me look like a beginner. It's really, really sad that people seem to consider that kind of stuff to be a lie. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall
- jason0597 5y ago
  I believe that such a long history of experience is seen with awe and respected much much more and compensate much better in traditional engineering fields (chemical etc.) rather than in tech. I could be wrong though.

by ipnon 5y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago

> No startup will turn away a domain expert in a field they need help with. This has not been my experience. Part of it may be that I don't really do the whole "self-promotion" thing so well. I'm pretty good at what I do. I have worked with many, many people that are much better than I am, so I don't let it get to my head. But whenever I mention what I'm good at, it's met with snorts of disbelief. That's crazy. I am not claiming to be Superman. I have a massive portfolio that proves what I claim. It has 30 or more (complete, documented, tested, and supported) repos, with over a decade of checkin history, and full source for a whole boatload of [mostly deprecated] shipping applications. Don't believe me? Clone the repo, and hit "Build." I have dozens of blog entries, articles, teaching series, etc.; all linked from my SO story. I even have the PDF manual for my very first engineering project, in 1987. What I can (and can't) do is not a matter for debate. Like I said, I have worked with many folks that make me look like a piker. Here's an example: About a month and a half ago, I responded to an article, where the author claimed we "never finished" anything. This was what I posted: >> I dare you to list three finished software projects. > I can probably list 30, and point to the repos. It's 100% true. You don't need to take my word for it. Simply look at my SO story. I link to it in my HN handle. Someone that obviously did not bother to do exactly that, posted a challenge, basically calling me a liar. I responded by throwing the seed into the nest, and posting a link to my SO story[0]. They never responded, after that. Like I said, I know that I'm pretty good at what I do, but I spent my entire career around folks that made me look like a beginner. It's really, really sad that people seem to consider that kind of stuff to be a lie. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall

jason0597 5y ago
I believe that such a long history of experience is seen with awe and respected much much more and compensate much better in traditional engineering fields (chemical etc.) rather than in tech. I could be wrong though.