i try to never let it slip at work that i went to college for graphic design, can shoot great photography, am very proficient in photoshop, do UI/UX design and edit video as well... the things i really dislike doing on a professional level but love to do in my spare time, i don't let on about at work, don't want to muddy the waters. the places where i did let it slip, ended up wanting me to do all that kind of stuff so they didn't have to outsource it or go to another team.
i left my last job due to lack of any tansparency from upper management, bad management in general, bad culture and knowing that in the sector i was working in(non-profit healthcare), I would always be income capped well below the going rate for my skillset. and honestly it just wasnt very interesting to work in a place that was allergic to anything even remotely cutting edge and decisions were usually made by people that had no idea what the outcome would be, and based the decisions on how much they liked the sales people. ugg.
i felt like it was a bad fit after only two weeks, stayed for 18 months because my mom worked there.
you can in fact pay agencies to deal with ALL of that, they just take it out of your cut. have you owned real estate or a business? I have both and i can attest they can be fully managed by others, without headache to the owner, its very simple. industrial RE investors do this all the time.
what if someone is not a customer or forgot their login? 9-5pst isnt much better then 9-5est, it still means i have to take time out of my normal work day to deal with you on your time. its your business, so run it as your wish of course, but as a customer, these are the things i look at, and scant phone/support availability is a red flag to me.
interesting how many 'mainstream' companies are acting like the online porn companies did in the late 90s... easy to keep rebilling the customer if you don't provide a way to cancel.
i always look for this before signing up to a financial service. if you aren't easy to reach from every page on your site(or only allow phone calls from 9-3 EST, kind of crap)... i don't trust you with my money, period. I know really good customer service reps are spendy, but hiding from the customer is unacceptable.
this didnt work for germany, wont work for the UK either. most of the "porn" companies in the UK are only there to make use of tax advantages and billing, they are just shells that allow the parent company to move money through the UK to tax havens and mitigate risks. very very few porn companies are truly based in the UK, which means none will follow the rules.
what is happening is not legal in the US and a large porn website was sued for doing it. they were printing hidden links on the page, then checking the color with JS to see if you had visited the destination url or not. judge didn't think it was a fair business practice. maybe these companies are not fixing this because of this legal precedent and figured no one was doing it?
I agree and disagree, I've been with companies and seen how scope can expand as you grow, building internal apps, monitoring, reporting, all kinds of stuff. On the flip side i know a guy that managed a team of 5, the 6 of them total managed the snippet editor in Visual Studio. Six people to manage a snippet editor? Really?
but the algorithm also changes, so that could have also been part of it(or your competition made changes), if you dont control all the variables its flawed, IMO. Downvote all you want. I've seen 1000%+ increase without changes, so by that math, could I say that not changing anything at all can increase your CTR by that percentile?
Lets take an example like a auto body shop(i knew a guy in Austria that owned one and did training), although they could take the skills he had taught them elsewhere, he could also hire off of his competitors as well. Some could start their own thing, but not everyone is meant or wants to run a business.
I fully agree, and I would bet MS is making very little or nothing off this contract, was more to help grow market share and client list. MS was also probably more willing to make changes and help then AWS was.
I grew up in the US and worked in Austria for a number of years in my twenties, I was always impressed with this part of their education and professional process, always wondered when American companies would get smart and follow suit.
Many jobs don't need a degree, they just need you to know how to do one thing really well. A short well focused training program would do that.
interesting, i live near Quincy and know a number of people that are helping build their new DCs and a couple that work there. seen many pictures of the inside and how the layout works, cool stuff. what amazes me the most if the crap hardware they run on.
learning backwards can be good too.... i know a guy making $200k+ managing some old AS400s, part time, and he is too young to have grown up working on them. old school skills are worth money, and the unwillingness of new entrants to learn them just makes them that much more valuable.
i didn't find perl terribly difficult to learn at all, but then again i learned it 12-15 years ago and maybe it was more on par with other languages at that time. don't think i would want to learn it now though, still have a strong appreciation for it though.