[wplug] Best mid-life career advice

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Wed Sep 5 12:59:42 EDT 2007


Bryan J Smith wrote:
> I.e., the number of IT personnel I've met that lack basic scripting know-
> how is not only staggering, but they will gleefully do manual tasks
> repeatedly, justifying not only their jobs, but turning around and
> complaining they are "over-worked."

On the other hand, I've personally programmed/scripted/automated myself 
out of a job, or at least, made it so boring that I ended up finding 
another job.

I know people who get to that point, and enjoy sitting and watching 
nagios and email all day, but I've got a short attention span.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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