Tag Archives: career

Networking and Connections

Posted on May 11, 2011 by way0utwest

This quote says it all: It’s from an article on the 9/11 memorial and how an algorithm was used to inscribe the names in particular places. That could easily be applied to your career as well. The connections you have, … Continue reading →

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The Poor Soul

Posted on May 11, 2011 by way0utwest

I recently had someone post this after I made a comment about someone taking responsibility for their database server. “So Steve, what would you recommend then for those poor souls?  As being one of them it drives me nuts to … Continue reading →

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What’s Mentoring?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by way0utwest

We have just kicked off The Mentoring Experiment after talking about it for months. There has been a lot of interest and quite a few applications submitted. We’ve even had a lot of people ask if we needed help mentoring … Continue reading →

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Less Pay, More Convenience

Posted on April 26, 2011 by way0utwest

Would you take a pay cut to be able to telecommute? I would, and I have in the past. I took a pretty substantial pay cut to work full time for SQLServerCentral almost a decade ago. It was an impact … Continue reading →

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