Real work got in the way.
Do what you love
IT is boring
How do we keep America Competitive
John McCain and Barack Obama have LinkedIn pages…
The digital age of politics is now upon us.
Disclaimer: I am a registered Democrat. I have been apathetic to politics for the last 12 years.
In keeping with our new format: Monday will be days that we take the time to answer specific people’s questions about careers in the Valley.
(Name withheld) writes in:
1. Do you know what’s the expected salary for a person with 10 years of SW experience? Companies want to negotiate with me from what I currently make.
qubelife.com […]
After fumbling through the normal Lifehacker and Digg favorites, I stumbled across JobBored.com with this interesting post about how to organize your job search. I would say that it’s interesting to note that how you divide and pursue various jobs you find is nearly as important as understanding what kind of job you want to […]
Via Digg.
Here’s a quick hit of 15 in demand careers. The titles are horribly generic. Almost all of these really require a form of specialization at some point. Again, it’s worth pointing out that just getting the degree doesn’t guarantee you results…
As opposed to the bad habits that we always seem to concentrate on:
7 Habits of Highly Innovative People
other links from thinksimplenow.com
How to Capture Creativity
9 Ways of Cultivating Creativity
Probably the most interesting thing to an engineer would be the fact that the guidelines in these articles pretty much directly apply to engineering work.
SURPRISE!!!! Engineering is a […]
I read a fortune cookie once that said “Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.”
In case you were ever curious about a short version of “the right thing”. I found a good list here via Digg.
A quick Google query of “managers vs. leaders” will give you a lot of people with various takes. […]
There was an usual number of posts on EETimes.com over the past couple of days. Most of them center around a number of debates regarding the US education system and engineering with some surprising discussion.
Engineering education study draws industry fire
According to the report (from the Urban Institute), “available data indicate increases in the absolute numbers […]
After poking around Computerworld.com from the previous post, there was a thought provoking post about Top 10 Dying Computer Skills.
I disagree with C. As C is still heavily used for embedded work, and there is a lack of competent, hardware-savvy C programmers. Linux is also heavily C for lower level work.
Overall, the article is interesting […]
Via Slashdot.
An editorial about how gaming is changing the psychology of the workplace.
They found that 80 percent of managers in the US under the age of 35 had significant video game experience and that gamers had a more positive outlook on life than non-gamers. Gamers tended to prefer multitasking to individual assignments, to stave off […]
A nice way to start your thinking about your job and education on a whole for the week.
From EETimes.com:
State of the Engineer - Nice high-level review of EE employment
Salary Survey responses - Responses to the above article
My personal favorite response in whole is here:
The government doesn’t operate under the same “business model” as industry, and […]