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My father once told me to do what no one else wants to. Good advice.
by mml 11y ago
My father once told me to do what no one else wants to. Good advice.
- dasil003 11y agoIntersect that with what desperately needs doing and I think you're onto something.
- hindsightbias 11y agoAnd surprisingly, it isn't hard to find things people don't want to do or are too intimidated to do. That doesn't mean managers will realize that value. They will, when you're gone.
- phamilton 11y agoOften once you do what nobody wants to do, those who declined the opportunity themselves have incentives to downplay the work you did and/or discredit you. Quite frustrating.
- meric 11y agoWhen the incentives change, do something else.
- digitalzombie 11y agoCobol?
- gaius 11y agoIn the 80s and most of the 90s, that was computing, everyone who did it was scorned as a nerd. But when it became a success - when we made it a success - now everyone wants a slice of the pie.
- collyw 11y agoIt was Steve Jobs who made it a success. No one is writing a book or film about you.
- robinduckett 11y agoHow is this useful discussion?
- collyw 11y ago"when we made it a success" sounds about as ridiculous as every claim that Steve Job invented almost anything tech related.
- gaius 11y agoWe as in everyone who was a geek or a nerd in the 80s or 90s. Before computing was "cool" and "coding" was the latest fashion. Doing the work that no-one wanted to do as per the parent post.
- joeframbach 11y agoSteve Jobs wasn't the TIME magazine 2006 person of the year.