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ng_moonmothInitial post on what I'm doing here.
16. If you could have any career, what would it be?
I think I may have had it. I spent roughly three decades as a computer software developer and manager, most of it in Silicon Valley, the center of the world for the industry. I got an endless stream of challenging tasks, learned a lot about the interaction between business decisions and development decisions, worked on teams, led teams, got to know a whole lot of interesting people, occasionally crossed paths with some of the best-known names in the industry, had failures and successes, tried most of the things I wanted to try, and finally decided that I no longer was all that interested in finding another job right about the time (and quite possibly also because) the work environment became something I no longer cared to tolerate for the sake of the interesting parts. I still keep my eyes open for something that might get me feeling it would be worth the effort to pursue, but I don't see much of that.
16. If you could have any career, what would it be?
I think I may have had it. I spent roughly three decades as a computer software developer and manager, most of it in Silicon Valley, the center of the world for the industry. I got an endless stream of challenging tasks, learned a lot about the interaction between business decisions and development decisions, worked on teams, led teams, got to know a whole lot of interesting people, occasionally crossed paths with some of the best-known names in the industry, had failures and successes, tried most of the things I wanted to try, and finally decided that I no longer was all that interested in finding another job right about the time (and quite possibly also because) the work environment became something I no longer cared to tolerate for the sake of the interesting parts. I still keep my eyes open for something that might get me feeling it would be worth the effort to pursue, but I don't see much of that.
art about the software-making experience
Date: 2019-02-20 10:28 pm (UTC)Since you're an author and you've had so much experience making technology, I wonder whether http://bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.html or https://us.pycon.org/2019/hatchery/artofpython/ might be of interest to you. I'm running the latter and I'm particularly hoping people will make and share art about experiences in software that don't get told very often.