Not My Job - Hackdot

Re:Not My Job by davedx on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:16AM (#31501168)

Hmm. There's definitely things to be learned picking up things that other people won't touch, but I would also qualify it more:

"Successful people choose their battles"

You can spend your entire career fixing other peoples' crappy bugs because nobody else can be bothered. That's not really going to make you successful, it's just going to make you a good bug fixer.

Choose problems that other people don't want to touch because they're hard or challenging, or because they're a core, valuable part of something.

That's what's brought me succeess ;) (and headaches)

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Re:Not My Job by ankitpati on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:49AM (#31501689)

Core, not chore.

Most pertinent advice I’ve seen in a while.

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Re:Not My Job by copperx on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:21AM (#31505838)

Can you explain a bit?

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Re:Not My Job by cafard on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:26AM (#31503532)

Yossi Kreinen (the C++ Frequently Questioned Answers guy) has a good post or two about choosing battles or projects.

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Re:Not My Job by cafard on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:35PM (#31510178)

http://yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html

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Re:Not My Job by monkeyshelli on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:31AM (#31504278)

Would you please mind sharing the links? My past experience of picking up projects hasn't been stellar so wouldn't mind to learn new viewpoints.

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Re:Not My Job by malfist on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:18AM (#31504102)

Do you mind to share it?

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