I just like to complain . I could ride out the next 20, 30 years with this company easy like so many seem to do, I just know I'd be going nowhere interesting with my career. I don't need to be more busy , I just need to be more effectively utilized.
I don't like my manager's style of management, but I sincerely feel she's interested in me doing well professionally and willing to invest in my overall development, so I need to change some of the ways I behave toward her.
Like with any relationship, her and I still need to build trust and find an effective communication style. I believe she's starting to see some of the complaints I was making, although looking back it did came off negative and overall unproductive. But with an example yesterday, I think she saw why I had the level of concern I did.
I kind of want to go back to contracting. Just to do my job and get paid, but I need some stability in my work situation. I do plan on tackling my own business again, but I'm making sure I have some "oh shyt" money established first.
After working at Google, I messed up. I jumped into a role that sucked and let my coding skills decline. That company shut down (but I got a bonus) and then I got this job.
I forgot just how much it sucks being the only IT person. Absolutely no say in anything. My tickets range from password resets to "Internet doesn't work" to employee onboarding to DNS records to small website updates to minor AWS things to implementing Google Analytics*
*They brought this back up today (months later) because apparently I didn't use Google Tag Manager to do it. Why doesn't somebody who's job is analytics do this? I asked the web dev contractor about it and he didn't have any experience with it. He isn't volunteering for more work, so it's on me.
A friend wanted to get her coding skills back too, so she said we should study together. Then the next week she told me she was about to start at a coding bootcamp. She said we should study for the AWS SA cert on the weekends, while she in the bootcamp. I was like, "Are you sure?"
When I hit her up to plan when we'd start, she ghosted me. She hit me back when the bootcamp was done. And we're going to go for the cert.
I've already started studying AWS on my own... because she does the disappearing thing a lot. And somehow instead of setting a study time, the next time I see her has become lunch with some guys that we went to a coding bootcamp with years ago. They're good dudes, but I'm not feeling very social. I just want to go into heads down mode until Thanksgiving\Christmas do AWS, Python, and Bash. Go for a new job after Christmas.
Edit: Found out today that my next project is switching from Azure AD to Google for our SSO. I don't see the migration going very well. We have a stupid amount of SaaS apps for such a small company. Maybe I'll learn something though.
Does anyone have experience with getting their wife on board with long term investing. My girlfriend (we plan on marriage) and i each make decent money. She recently bought a house and i rent.
But right now she doesnt know about 401ks, Roth IRAs, early retirement strategies etc, so once a week we go over the basics of investing. But i feel like im not doing the best job of explaining the "why" behind why people do it at all. Better yet i dont want to keep her in the dark, then in 5 years when im not working anymore, she's gonna be looking at me sideways like "why didnt you teach of show me this stuff?"
Does anyone have any experience with that?
I could be on some Joe Jackson shyt lol but i want her to really understand why its important for both of us to invest every month for our future.
Does anyone have experience with getting their wife on board with long term investing. My girlfriend (we plan on marriage) and i each make decent money. She recently bought a house and i rent.
But right now she doesnt know about 401ks, Roth IRAs, early retirement strategies etc, so once a week we go over the basics of investing. But i feel like im not doing the best job of explaining the "why" behind why people do it at all. Better yet i dont want to keep her in the dark, then in 5 years when im not working anymore, she's gonna be looking at me sideways like "why didnt you teach of show me this stuff?"
Does anyone have any experience with that?
I could be on some Joe Jackson shyt lol but i want her to really understand why its important for both of us to invest every month for our future.
What happens when you’re totally motivated to become financially independent, but your spouse isn’t? They don’t get this whole FIRE thing. It doesn’t interest them. They don’t see the point of retiring early, or would much rather “live for today” and focus on spending and enjoying a steady...
Whether you’re deciding what to eat for dinner or choosing where you’ll spend your retirement years, you know how important it is to be on the same page
This is something I’ve noticed as well. I left a pricing function that was heavy on SQL and Excel. I don’t want those skills to atrophy in my new role that’s more Biz Dev focused.
Hard skills are always necessary and I feel I’m too young in my career to let those skills decline…but I guess it’s like riding a bike. Once you have the fundamentals you can pick it back up later on since its muscle memory.
After working at Google, I messed up. I jumped into a role that sucked and let my coding skills decline. That company shut down (but I got a bonus) and then I got this job
I don't like my manager's style of management, but I sincerely feel she's interested in me doing well professionally and willing to invest in my overall development, so I need to change some of the ways I behave toward her.
Like with any relationship, her and I still need to build trust and find an effective communication style. I believe she's starting to see some of the complaints I was making, although looking back it did came off negative and overall unproductive. But with an example yesterday, I think she saw why I had the level of concern I did.
I kind of want to go back to contracting. Just to do my job and get paid, but I need some stability in my work situation. I do plan on tackling my own business again, but I'm making sure I have some "oh shyt" money established first.
How easy was it to land contracting GIG. Also how heavy were they on experience on the contracting GIG? One of my friends did a shyt ton of contracting gig, failed forward along the way a bunch of time and. landed a $200K plus job.
Does anyone have experience with getting their wife on board with long term investing. My girlfriend (we plan on marriage) and i each make decent money. She recently bought a house and i rent.
But right now she doesnt know about 401ks, Roth IRAs, early retirement strategies etc, so once a week we go over the basics of investing. But i feel like im not doing the best job of explaining the "why" behind why people do it at all. Better yet i dont want to keep her in the dark, then in 5 years when im not working anymore, she's gonna be looking at me sideways like "why didnt you teach of show me this stuff?"
Does anyone have any experience with that?
I could be on some Joe Jackson shyt lol but i want her to really understand why its important for both of us to invest every month for our future.
Does anyone have experience with getting their wife on board with long term investing. My girlfriend (we plan on marriage) and i each make decent money. She recently bought a house and i rent.
But right now she doesnt know about 401ks, Roth IRAs, early retirement strategies etc, so once a week we go over the basics of investing. But i feel like im not doing the best job of explaining the "why" behind why people do it at all. Better yet i dont want to keep her in the dark, then in 5 years when im not working anymore, she's gonna be looking at me sideways like "why didnt you teach of show me this stuff?"
Does anyone have any experience with that?
I could be on some Joe Jackson shyt lol but i want her to really understand why its important for both of us to invest every month for our future.
How easy was it to land contracting GIG. Also how heavy were they on experience on the contracting GIG? One of my friends did a shyt ton of contracting gig, failed forward along the way a bunch of time and. landed a $200K plus job.
It was no easier than finding a regular position. However, if you can stay long enough to get a clearance you can move around/up more easily than without one. Experience wise, it's really going to depend on the role they are hiring for. I was in a BI role using SAP Business Objects and Qlik Sense and I had experience with both so I think that helped, any way you can niche your skills and experience is always helpful.
My manager is off today. Won't he do it? She really ticked me off on Friday because sometimes she's like a damn kid that wants answers to shyt I don't have answers to.
Using a heatmap visual for one of these projects based on a rounded average rating from 1-5. The colors of heat map are determined by the rating with the darkest shade meaning the highest rating. In one case a '4' was being displayed, but they were two different shades of blue and she basically demanded I explain to her why.
I explain to her that using an average maybe one 4 is a higher value 4 than the other and that wasn't good enough. I change the format to one decimal point and one value shows 3.5 and another is 4.3. I heard nothing else from her.
My manager is off today. Won't he do it? She really ticked me off on Friday because sometimes she's like a damn kid that wants answers to shyt I don't have answers to.
Using a heatmap visual for one of these projects based on a rounded average rating from 1-5. The colors of heat map are determined by the rating with the darkest shade meaning the highest rating. In one case a '4' was being displayed, but they were two different shades of blue and she basically demanded I explain to her why.
I explain to her that using an average maybe one 4 is a higher value 4 than the other and that wasn't good enough. I change the format to one decimal point and one value shows 3.5 and another is 4.3. I heard nothing else from her.
That's how I felt, but then I try to give the benefit of the doubt. I'm the only one that has worked with Qlik previously, so I feel others "handicap" themselves by saying they don't know the product and don't take any efforts to learn.
But visualizations are pretty much the same from product to product, understanding the data is the most important thing. They don't want to understand the data, just demo pretty visuals for others to explain what's happening. But at least it's pretty.
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. I could ride out the next 20, 30 years with this company easy like so many seem to do, I just know I'd be going nowhere interesting with my career. I don't need to be more busy 
, I just need to be more effectively utilized.
? We gotta get you properly compensated.
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. It's wild how these people go so far in life.