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When I was younger and naïve(r) in my career as a web developer, I had a boss who called me into his office and handed me a fistful of memory cards. He said "I don't know how to burn these photos from my camera onto CDs."Permalink On twitter.com
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I spent the next day taking a break from my actual work of doing web development to do this errand of copying .JPG files off of SD cards and running them through the CD burning software. I was hired to be a PHP developer, back then, and doing development was what I wanted to do.Permalink On twitter.com
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I didn't want to be a "technical assistant". I didn't want to "fix this printer" because I "know about computers". I wanted to do the job I was hired to do. I offered my services doing one thing and was told I had do do another thing that barely overlapped.On twitter.com
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So, imagine you're an engineer whose career was focused on green energy; making the world a better place for future generations. Working on technology to harness the power of electricity in a world where fossil fuels dominated and were actively destroying the planet…Permalink On twitter.com
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…and your less-and-less-stable-by-the-day-it-seems boss calls you up and tells you to show up at the Twitter office tomorrow because he has a coding job for you. 🙄Permalink On twitter.com
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