To have full budget for a system implementation, to be able to get it going 100%, only to have it deactivated and you get laid off because your company chose to not continue with it...
OR...
To keep your job as long as you want it, because you're the only one that knows everything about a poorly-funded, barely-implemented system?
:think:
Not a situation I face... but I think I'd rather have the first than the second.
I could take either one, but I would lean towards option two. The full deployment of a system will look pretty awesome on my resume while I look for a new job, but the job security on option two is important to me. However, the "as long as you want it" wouldn't be very long. I would spend my time making it the best documented poorly-funded, barely-implemented system in existence so that I could move on to something else with a clear conscience. If I could beg, borrow, or re-purpose (I don't steal) any equipment to make it better I would be doing that till it was a awesomely documented, poorly-funded, well-implemented system.
Option two tends to describe my job history. Work somewhere till the network is humming, and fully functional then get bored and move on. My current job has kept me interested by growing so fast I can't get to the fully functional part.
-Otanx
Yeah, option two often happens without any alternative... I like your take on it. :)
Tough choice. I've had both and I'm not sure. I guess the real point is being able to live with both situations.
Before kids option 1, after kids option 2 lol.
Quote from: Nerm on June 20, 2016, 10:45:50 AM
Before kids option 1, after kids option 2 lol.
Truth ..... it's funny how devastating having two young children can be to your drive/studies. I know there are exceptions out there that do it anyway because they have super-supportive and impossibly-patient wives... or are fanatically dedicated, but for the rest of us... lol
It's tons easier to study when the kids are in the other room, logging hours on Skyrim or Fallout. They only holler when I reboot the firewall that I'm labbing on... :matrix:
Quote from: deanwebb on June 20, 2016, 02:50:29 PM
It's tons easier to study when the kids are in the other room, logging hours on Skyrim or Fallout. They only holler when I reboot the firewall that I'm labbing on... :matrix:
Hehe that's pretty funny...
Yeah... wish I could get that much time without 'someone' needing 'something' - especially with a 4 and 6 year old... someone takes someone's toy.. someone wants a drink.. someone wants me to get off my arse and clean house/laundry/whatever. For someone like me with ADD (not joking), I get eternally frustrated when I'm trying to concentrate on what I'm working on (because I have to concentrate 2x as hard as the average person), and I get bothered every 5-10 minutes.
Maybe when they get older... if I'm not a Manager by then...
Block off the hours and head to the library. They tend to be quiet places, suitable for study.