Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
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#2Weird, link broken
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#3Weird, link broken
works for me
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#4I couldn't understand how the title related to the advice until I finally looked up the definition of "bargain".
"an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other."
I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language the way other people use it.
The author repeated uses the word "traits" in the body of the text instead, and I think changing "Seek Bargains" to "Seek Traits" makes the title way more understandable.
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#5Completely agree with what is stated. Jobs where you can learn something are much more valuable than jobs that pay well from the beginning.
I'd like to add that at least for me it was confusing how many valuable skills I need before I can really sell myself consistently. It's not enough to just develop in a programming language. You need to know how to QA your code, how to project manage, how to deploy your code to users, how to sell, how to survive office politics, and on a higher level how to survive the office politics that happen at your customer/partner companies where you are not on-site on a daily basis.
Not the single skill is the value, but the combination of the right skillset. Think about it from a customer perspective. You don't pay for a car that only screwed together correctly, it also needs to drive, it also needs to be useful quickly to you (intuitive), and needs to get repaired if it breaks down, even if you are the one who used it incorrectly. Only if you have the feeling you get all of that then you will buy the car.
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#6The top comment on that article:
"This site is way better than Perezhilton.com"
Cracked me up.
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#7Wow, having worked as a database guy in a number of academic institutions I find it hard to believe that he is suggesting academia over a high paid stable career in MS.
Maybe CS PhDs are different, but biology ones who I have worked with are low paid, stressful, and highly competitive to get past a couple of postdoc positions.
It might be more interesting work, but is your work the only real interest you have in life? There is so much more to explore than sitting in front of a screen trying to make code work.
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#8I couldn't understand how the title related to the advice until I finally looked up the definition of "bargain". "an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other." I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language th…
I think the author is using the term in the more common sense of "good value" as he includes this:
> choose the available job option that offers the greatest variety of these traits in exchange for career capital
- wherein he defines both value and what you're paying for it.
I assume that by "career capital" he means the opportunity cost of working for one organisation over another.
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#9I couldn't understand how the title related to the advice until I finally looked up the definition of "bargain". "an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other." I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language th…
I was expecting an article on how deal-seeking mommies achieve fulfillment in finding coupons and winning free stuff from online giveaways :(
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#10Wow, having worked as a database guy in a number of academic institutions I find it hard to believe that he is suggesting academia over a high paid stable career in MS. Maybe CS PhDs are different, but biology ones who I have worked with are low paid, stressful, and highly competitive to get past a couple of postdoc positions. It might be more interesting work, but is your work the only real interest you have in life…
The older I get, and as my family grows, I find it harder and harder to invest time in projects outside of work. If I can rig or find a job that fulfills my need for mastery, it ticks one of my most important needs. I can go home and focus on my family instead of having my attention wander to another task.