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It's especially funny that Marshall said never tell anyone that your are good at writing drivers or sendmail-configuration because that will be your life's dest
by nix23 4y ago
It's especially funny that Marshall said never tell anyone that your are good at writing drivers or sendmail-configuration because that will be your life's destination then ;)
- yamtaddle 4y agoHeh, similar to "never let your coworkers know you are good with Excel". Or, in non-tech offices, never let anyone know you understand technology at all. I wonder if there's a name for that general sentiment, and how far back comments on that sort of thing go.
- a1369209993 4y ago"The reward for a job well done is usually another job to do. Remember that if you're ever tempted to do a good job of something thankless and unpleasant."
- toast0 4y agoI interviewed somewhere without a resume, because of a referral, but the CEO asked me what I did, so I started at the beginning without thinking... 12 years before I started there, I had worked at a rinky-dink ISP, and before that I did IT at a school district as a student worker.... guess who got to configure mail and manage the domains and own the GSuite account. Bah