>edw519's questions provoke conversation, where yours provoke sales talk. This... is actually kindof interesting. See, I would see it the other way around. W

>edw519's questions provoke conversation, where yours provoke sales talk. This... is actually kindof interesting. See, I would see it the other way around. Working conditions are real things that effect me day-to-day. My experience? usually when you go work somewhere, your /actual/ job has absolutely nothing to do with what you got interviewed for. All this talk about 'the problem the company is trying to solve' is, well, marketing bullshit. Hell, if you are hired on early, the people running the company don't (actually) know the answer to that question beyond "make enough money to cover payroll." If you are hired on late, usually, your job is to do what your managers want, not to try to do what the company needs. Usually, if you do the latter, you will spend all your time in conflict with existing management structures. I mean, part of that is that people are stupid, sure, and everyone wants to protect and grow their little kingdoms. But part of that is that even if you really are as good as you think you are at your role (and most people aren't) you don't know everything. I know that as a young sysadmin I got into a bunch of fights with my boss about how to do things. Now that I have my own company? my employees sometimes get into fights with me over the exact same things. I mean, now that I've gotta look at it from the business perspective as well as the technical perspective, I can see where my boss was coming from way back when.