[wplug] Best mid-life career advice

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:59:42 -0400
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:

> 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.

See, I try to automate everything I can, not only to make my life
easier, but there are so many better uses of my time.  Some day
I'll purchase a nice technical library and do nothing but sit and
read all day.  :P

-- 
Tom Rhodes