Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job
by jcadam on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:07AM
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LOL, once spent a few days on SWE salary (along with a few other guys) physically moving server racks from one facility to another. Yes, small company. As a one-off that sort of stuff is fine.
Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job
by vidarh on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:49PM
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I was the technical director at a place where I was on one hand responsible for the dev team, and second highest paid person after the managing director. On the other hand I was also the person who'd lug new servers into our racks when needed. Part of the fun is being able to be all over the place and have a hand in every pie. Downside is the times when you don't have a choice because there's nobody else with the right skills.
Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job
by doubled112 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:24PM
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The "promotion" to MAC (moves additions changes) technician was my first raise.
Please go to this client, take these monitors upstairs, and deploy them. We expect this to be your next few months.
For $4 an hour more than I was making as MSP sysadmin? Sounds awesome!
I was disappointed when that contract ran out.
If you started at a small company, you'll be used to doing all sorts of things "outside of your job description" (usually below) like restocking toilet paper, etc, simply because there is nobody else to do it.
If you started at a large company, you'll likely be used to "you cannot whatsoever move your computer to the other side of your cubicle without contacting building management" and other such things - stepping outside your job description could get you yelled at or even officially reprimanded.