You Need To Quit Your Job

You Need to Quit Your Jobkpd

A Little About Me

• I was a scientist

• I was a coder

• I was an architect

• …

This is Not About Technology

• It is about technologists

• It’s about happiness, and balance

• When you find balance, you find peace

A Little About You

• Today I’m focused on two types of people

A Little About You

• Today I’m focused on two types of people

A Little About You

• Today I’m focused on two types of people

8 hours for working… minimum

Half hour for lunch

An hour to commute

… it adds up

http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssleep/“Insufficient Sleep is a Public Health

Epidemic”

We have the best jobs

• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs

When You First Get Hired

• Enthusiasm is high

• Got that “new project” smell

• Team may be new or developing

• Your ideas are needed and fresh

And You Did That

Honeymoon Over

• Now you’re the maintenance team

• Or some of the team moves to other departments or leaves entirely.

• Knowledge departs

• And now you may be “stuck” holding the bag

• And you may even start resenting it.

• Your skills may start to atrophy.

• But you’re comfortable, and change is hard.

http://blog.timesunion.com/careers/the-6-stages-of-the-job-life-cycle/1458/

Symptoms

“I’ve got twenty-five years experience writing code, and

I don’t need anyone else’s input.”

Signs

Are you not entertained?

Don’t believe in the management’s vision

“The key is not to prioritize your

schedule, but to schedule your

priorities”

{ Stephen Covey }

Perfect is the enemy of

good

Perfect is the enemy of

done

Well, if the product is

“walking”…

… master of none

The Parable of the Stonecutters

"Consider what you are doing and ponder whether it is worthy that you devote your life to it." --Rabbi Nachma

Remote Work

• Telecommuting up nearly 79% from 2005 and now makes up 2.6% of the work force -http://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics

• Working at home increases productivity (+13%) and reduces turnover (-50%) - https://web.stanford.edu/~nbloom/WFH.pdf

You Need to Quit Your Jobkpd

Thanks to Some Inspirational Folks!

• Cori Drew - Because PEOPLE. Because PASSION. http://truncatedcodr.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/because-people-because-passion/

• Sharon Cichelli – “Crafting Your Career”, That Conference 2012

• Elizabeth Naramore – Stop Drinking Spoiled Milk http://vimeo.com/71732283

• Amir Rajan – Rebooting Life -http://amirrajan.net/meta/2013/07/14/rebooting-life/

• Scott Hanselman - It's not what you read, it's what you ignore -http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsNotWhatYouReadItsWhatYouIgnoreVideoOfScottHanselmansPersonalProductivityTips.aspx

That Conference 2015: August 10-12

• We want you to come

• We want you to learn

• We want you to participate

• We want you to teach

• We want you to

• We want you

Find Me. Talk to Me.

• http://www.kevinpdavis.com

• @kevinpdavis

• kevin@kevinpdavis.com

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/daviskevinp/

• http://about.me/kevin_davis

• http://softwarearchaeology.blogspot.com

You Need to Quit Your Jobkpd