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by johnward 11y ago
Is it common for managers to actually get involved in projects in other organizations?
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by johnward 11y ago
I have first hand experience that says it still happens.
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As someone on the implementation side I have a sour taste for Sales and Sales Engineers. Always selling features we do not have or things we cannot do. Then they mock it up and leave and I have to break the news to the customer.
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by johnward 11y ago
My problem is that glassdoor has information for my specific position, in my city, in my company but it's double what I currently make. I don't think I'm that underpaid but the taboo of employees not discussing salary leave
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Are Products the Road to Prosperity?(johnathanward.com)
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I've ran campaigns that targeted likes and I feel like many of them are phony but I've also ran target campaigns to lead pages as an affiliate and had success in the past.
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by johnward 11y ago
I think their is a group of people like my parents. They never really used computers and don't "get" them. Now that they have smartphones they are all over the web. My dad refuses to touch a computer but shops on his phone or
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by johnward 11y ago
The fact that these boxes keep turning into successful small businesses is amazing to me. Especially when this box already has a competitor that I thought of as soon as I figured out what it is. The article wasn't as insightful as I ho
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by johnward 11y ago
I've often thought about trying to negotiate a 4 day work week in the US but it wouldn't be worth it. Since my 40 hours turn into 50 or 60 I could see 32 hours turning into 45 easily.
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by johnward 11y ago
That's the weird thing about depression. At the moment it seems totally rational. Then you look back and think WTF? Like today. I look at the comment I originally made and there is no way I would even share that in the mood (positive)
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by johnward 11y ago
> (one reason why guns are a worse threat than other forms of suicide) I come from a family of avid hunters and gun owners. I don't personally own a gun. Not because of any political reason but because I don't want the ability
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by johnward 11y ago
I'd be more interested in knowing if it's possible to have a life before retirement?
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by johnward 11y ago
The problem here is you spend a majority of your waking hours working. How can it not affect your quality of life? I get up at 6. Eat and then go to the gym until about 9. Work from 9:30 to about anywhere from 6:30-10. Go to bed. Rinse. Re
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by johnward 11y ago
Out of 46 comments the word "remote" was mentioned 17 times. That is interesting to me. Especially when a majority of positions are obviously not offering a remote option.
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by johnward 11y ago
I just get up at six eat breakfast and hit the gym. So much better than sitting in traffic for 2 hours.
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by johnward 11y ago
On that same note you should always take "personal days", "flex days", "personal choice holidays" before ever taking a vacation day. Most companies will not pay you for those days if you leave so use them befor
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by johnward 11y ago
When I say much less than 100% I mean 100% of the amount that the bonus is stated to be. For example if my bonus was 8% of my salary then the most I've ever actually seen paid out was 2-4% based on the company not performing as well as
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by johnward 11y ago
It's totally possible that there are companies out there with "unlimited" vacation that would be OK with you taking a month off. However, in my experience, even when you have an assigned number of vacation days there is still
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by johnward 11y ago
Yeah I was going to say that I'm not certain it's taxed more but it just seems like it is because I always end up with something like 50% of what the actual bonus was. Also healthcare and things are still deducted from the bonuses
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by johnward 11y ago
Yeah but they get taxed so much. I think I'd rather have it in my base salary. I'm might be kind of jaded too. In my past jobs were sold to me as if the bonus was a guaranteed part of the salary. Then you would rarely get anything
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by johnward 11y ago
Important to me: - Full Remote or at least 3 days per week remote (my commute sucks) - Flexibility (Basically, I just want to be able to make it to doctor appointments without having to waste vacation days. I also like flexible start times
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by johnward 11y ago
I'm a software consultant. I travel or work from my house depending on the project. I think I like doing front-end dev type work as far as technical work goes. At least I seem to enjoy it a little bit when I actually get to do it on my
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by johnward 11y ago
I've been to a counsellor but no psychologist is taking new patients in my area (that I've been able to find). I get up everyday at 6 and hit the gym before work. Usually 30-60 minutes of walking on an incline followed by an hour
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by johnward 11y ago
" On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work." How do you fix this? For the last 10 years of my lif
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by johnward 11y ago
I'm curious as to what makes Vagrant more light weight as it still needs some type of VM software.
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by johnward 12y ago
I live in an area of the country that gets some of the lowest amount of direct sunlight. I asked my doc about Vitamin D deficiency and he said it's not worth testing. I got tested anyway and it was low even with me taking 2000iu a day.
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by johnward 12y ago
I'm 29 but already seeing some negative effects from sitting in an office for the last 10 years. I was recently asked to switch to being a remote employee since we are running out of office space and I have a killer commute (4-5 hours
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by johnward 12y ago
I'm not actually in CA I was just curious about CA laws because they seem to lean the most on the side of the employees compared to other states.
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by johnward 12y ago
I'm EST. When I work with CA companies I tend to end up just taking meetings at 8-9pm. When working with people halfway across the world there have been a few midnight and 1am calls.
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by johnward 12y ago
Exactly. There is literally no market I could enter that IBM doesn't have some presence in.

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