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Category Archives: Career
Reflections in a stairwell
On the way out today, I walked down the 13 stories of stairs in the Register & Tribune building, marble tread after marble tread worn away, shaped by generations of journalists, editors, photographers, composers, wan platemakers and coarse pressmen, salespeople, … Continue reading
Career choices, episode 3
On Friday I accepted an offer to join Merchants Bonding Company as an application developer, specializing in Ruby on Rails. I gave notice at the Gannett Production Centers yesterday. They’re great people, and I will miss them, but it’s time … Continue reading
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Back in time
Fridays and weekends lately remind of my years at the Des Moines Register putting out fires, trying to impose order on chaos, with little interest from senior management as long as we stayed under budget. Sitting here munching on a … Continue reading
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vendordumping
I’ve been working in information technology for roughly 10 years now, and I’ve installed many small and a few large systems. While some of those systems supplanted a vendor, I had never had the opportunity to actually participate in a … Continue reading
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Career choices, #2 : Back to the newspaper biz
I posted a while ago about a level of dissatisfaction with the line of work I’m in, and some reading I was doing to sort of figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Well, I haven’t … Continue reading
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Career choices, past and present – #1
I’ve been increasingly feeling dissatisfied with the industry I’m in (information technology and software development), for a variety of reasons – frustration with the state of technology, an inability to connect to/with my company’s core business, the large number of … Continue reading