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My New Job

I haven’t posted in a few weeks, and there’s a reason for that. I recently changed jobs. It was a long journey, and I’ll go in to that here in this post. But the last few weeks were focused on wrapping up my work with my old employer and getting ramped up with my new employer. And with all of the recent layoffs in tech, I thought it might be of some value to others for me to post about my own job search journey. Maybe it will be of some help to you.

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  • new-job
Friday, February 17, 2023 | 17 minutes Read
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My Being Fired/Laid Off Horror Stories

So I saw a tweet in my stream a couple of days ago that got me thinking a bit about my own job history, especially in tech. First “real” job. Mostly research. Acted as office receptionist. I was replaced by a bell. I made the bell business cards on my last day. https://t.co/Jztrw4kEFG — emily freeman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@editingemily) June 15, 2022 For the most part, every job I’ve ever left has been on my own terms. It might be for a better opportunity. It might be because I was fed up with the state of the company I was working at. But almost always I left when I decided it was time to go…. with 4 exceptions.

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Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 9 minutes Read
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Pivoting Your Career

I recently found myself in the uncomfortable position of having to look for a new job. Thanks to the “alleged” poor life decisions of a certain former leadership person, the company I had poured most of the last four years into was closing its doors. We’d limped along best we could for a time after the “event”, but it was not to be. It was time to put it out of its misery. Those of us that had survived that long suddenly found ourselves with a need to go job hunting.

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Saturday, November 17, 2018 | 8 minutes Read
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Hey Devs, You Are Not Expected To Know Everything

There was a tweet that entered my timeline yesterday that really caught my attention: If you’re a new programmer I just want you to know, me and all of my colleagues with years of experience Google the most basic things _daily_ Accounting Shower Curtain and Unusual Bedroom (@oliviacpu) December 13, 2017 It seems one of the most basic concepts. Yet it gets completely hidden by the developer community. It doesn’t matter how many years of experience you have in a particular language. There are still things you will have to look up EVERY SINGLE DAY. I really started to think about it. Why are we ashamed to admit that publicly? A couple of reasons came to me pretty quickly: Ego and envy.

  • career
  • development
  • productivity
Thursday, December 14, 2017 | 5 minutes Read
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