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It's less about what your company wants you to do, and more about what you need to do to develop your career. If you want to stay on top and keep being employab
by Wilya 14y ago
It's less about what your company wants you to do, and more about what you need to do to develop your career. If you want to stay on top and keep being employable, you'll have to invest in skills, and I see no reason why your employer would provide that for free, especially if those skills aren't directly useful to them.
Company's job isn't to help you find a work-life balance. Its goal is to find the long term plan that extracts the most work out of you. It can involve giving you some cool perks to keep you healthy on the long run, or it can involve churning through new hires all the time and overworking them while they last. Depends on their strategy.
- lelandbatey 14y agoYes, I think this is the spot on point. You don't need a home lab to do your current job, but you are going to need a home lab to prepare for your next job. Because your employer certainly won't be shelling out so that you can leave (well, probably won't anyway).
- rayiner 14y agoThis mentality towards training people is common, but is a textbook case of stupid management. Companies under-invest in training, then pay enormous recruiting costs in getting people with the "right skills" as well as paying opportunity costs when projects can't go forward because they can't find the "right people." It's a bit of brain-dead management that's common in some other fields, but acutely common in software/IT.
- Too 14y agoI found a good quote about that in the article about leaving managers here on HN yesterday: http://www.alaisterlow.com/employees-leave-managers-not-companies/ http://www.alaisterlow.com/employees-leave-managers-not-comp... > there is only one thing worse than training (or growing) > your staff and having them leave, and that is not training > or developing them and having them stay.