Will Work for Food and Lodging
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Will Work for Food and Lodging
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#2REALLY interesting idea - tell me you'll be blogging this?
It might be of use for people considering taking you up on this offer (and I'm one of them) to know roughly what your skills are - I know you say you're versatile, but no-one can do everything.
Or is the point that you want to do things outside your current comfort zone?
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#3I love this idea. I live in Germany, and (as pointed out in the text) carpenters can still be seen from time to time during their journeyman years (which is called "Wanderschaft" or "Walz" in German). Slightly OT but here's a picture of what it looks like when they walk across the country [1]
I always found this concept deeply fascinating because these people get a chance to see many things from different perspectives simply because they move out of their local village, which many people never do.
The application of this concept on modern trades like software development is certainly very interesting. I'm tempted to think that the biggest gain it might have is that one (as the journeyman) can get quick insights into the deep differences between workflows and company culture in the various companies one approaches. I mean, we all know how different the current employer compared to the previous employer can be, now imagine having such a switch every 1-2 weeks.
[1] http://www.berufsausbildung-bau.de/images/Wandergesellen.jpg
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#4REALLY interesting idea - tell me you'll be blogging this? It might be of use for people considering taking you up on this offer (and I'm one of them) to know roughly what your skills are - I know you say you're versatile, but no-one can do everything. Or is the point that you want to do things outside your current comfort zone?
>no-one can do everything
Anyone can be taught to do (pretty much) anything if they're willing.
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#5REALLY interesting idea - tell me you'll be blogging this? It might be of use for people considering taking you up on this offer (and I'm one of them) to know roughly what your skills are - I know you say you're versatile, but no-one can do everything. Or is the point that you want to do things outside your current comfort zone?
Not sure if this comment is visible or not because I'm under a partial ban here, but I'll amend the post, thanks for the feedback.
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#6REALLY interesting idea - tell me you'll be blogging this? It might be of use for people considering taking you up on this offer (and I'm one of them) to know roughly what your skills are - I know you say you're versatile, but no-one can do everything. Or is the point that you want to do things outside your current comfort zone?
Not sure if this comment is visible or not because I'm under a partial ban here, but I'll amend the post, thanks for the feedback.
I see it, and I don't have showdead on or any special features.
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#7If someone else is paying for food and travel, why limit yourself to a certain geographic area? If someone wants to pay for you to fly to and from Australia, I say let them do it - it would only add to the adventure.
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#8Richard Sennett's excellent book "The Craftsman" has a lot about the history of guilds and the training they gave, as well as relating it back to software. Well worth a read.
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#9One nitpick, journeyman doesn't mean "on a journey", it's journee man, from the French as in, a person paid a day rate for their trade. The next step up, a master, would be paid for completed items, and could employ others.
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#10If someone else is paying for food and travel, why limit yourself to a certain geographic area? If someone wants to pay for you to fly to and from Australia, I say let them do it - it would only add to the adventure.
I think his bus is an integral part of this, so it might take a long time to get to Australia.