Why you need a home lab to keep your job
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Why you need a home lab to keep your job
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#2The main problem with my rack is the noise - I live in a flat and there's nowhere but the living room to put it. I've seen a few noise cancelling designs around, but they're all too expensive.
I wonder if I could build a simple noise cancellation system with an FX-LMS algorithm?
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#3Unless I've misunderstood this article, I think this is a bad idea. When working for a company your work should ideally stay at work. Come 5pm, if you're privliged enough to work a 9-5, your day should be done.
This growing push for work to be extended into the family home really erodes the necessary work life distinction that allows for a happy life. Thats not to say you shouldn't have a lab at home to train yourself on things that interest you in your own free time, but if staying at a job means investing unpaid hours at home then one should probably consider whether the job is worth it.
After all, if a company expects you to do unpaid training in your own personal time then what will it expect from you in the future?
Furthermore, these articles constantly push the message that more work is better for your career than less. My father always told me its not the quantity of time you spend at a task but the quality.
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#4Yep, having your own personal lab allows you to do what you want and can actually be a sort of pretest bed for applications and/or hardware you want to recommend for your employer.
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#5Companies that won't invest in training or research are not worth working for. If they want you (as an employee) to pay for that out of your own pocket and you do, then you're a sucker, unless you've negotiated a fat salary and a 4 day week.
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#6Unless I've misunderstood this article, I think this is a bad idea. When working for a company your work should ideally stay at work. Come 5pm, if you're privliged enough to work a 9-5, your day should be done. This growing push for work to be extended into the family home really erodes the necessary work life distinction that allows for a happy life. Thats not to say you shouldn't have a lab at home to train yoursel…
It's less about what your company wants you to do, and more about what you need to do to develop your career. If you want to stay on top and keep being employable, you'll have to invest in skills, and I see no reason why your employer would provide that for free, especially if those skills aren't directly useful to them.
Company's job isn't to help you find a work-life balance. Its goal is to find the long term plan that extracts the most work out of you. It can involve giving you some cool perks to keep you healthy on the long run, or it can involve churning through new hires all the time and overworking them while they last. Depends on their strategy.
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#7Unless I've misunderstood this article, I think this is a bad idea. When working for a company your work should ideally stay at work. Come 5pm, if you're privliged enough to work a 9-5, your day should be done. This growing push for work to be extended into the family home really erodes the necessary work life distinction that allows for a happy life. Thats not to say you shouldn't have a lab at home to train yoursel…
DAMMIT, I accidentally downvoted you from my phone when I meant to upvote you!!
I totally agree.
You should have all the things you need and love for both your job and your passions, but keep a line between home-time life and work life.
Anyone who says otherwise is likely It is wise to do this even when you have roommates and are not living with an SO / our own family.
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#8Unless I've misunderstood this article, I think this is a bad idea. When working for a company your work should ideally stay at work. Come 5pm, if you're privliged enough to work a 9-5, your day should be done. This growing push for work to be extended into the family home really erodes the necessary work life distinction that allows for a happy life. Thats not to say you shouldn't have a lab at home to train yoursel…
For my personal situation, this is a good idea.
My current job involves me writing code for robots. This sounded interesting to me, until I realized that I am working with some ancient software here - I'm talking .Net 1.1 on Windows 2000! Not to mention that writing software for robots isn't really all that challenging.
If it weren't for my after-hours exploration of open-source technologies, my skill-set would be severely outdated, and my career would effectively be dead here.
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#9The main problem with my rack is the noise - I live in a flat and there's nowhere but the living room to put it. I've seen a few noise cancelling designs around, but they're all too expensive. I wonder if I could build a simple noise cancellation system with an FX-LMS algorithm?
If you can replace the dinky fans servers usually use with 120mm units, you can all but solve the noise problem. It would be totally custom, yes, but probably easier than sophisticated noise cancellation.
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#10Unless I've misunderstood this article, I think this is a bad idea. When working for a company your work should ideally stay at work. Come 5pm, if you're privliged enough to work a 9-5, your day should be done. This growing push for work to be extended into the family home really erodes the necessary work life distinction that allows for a happy life. Thats not to say you shouldn't have a lab at home to train yoursel…
For my personal situation, this is a good idea. My current job involves me writing code for robots. This sounded interesting to me, until I realized that I am working with some ancient software here - I'm talking .Net 1.1 on Windows 2000! Not to mention that writing software for robots isn't really all that challenging. If it weren't for my after-hours exploration of open-source technologies, my skill-set would be se…
Ill be a bit more clear about my agreement withy the GP that I posted:
You expressed perfectly what I was referring to: make sure you have the tools you need to explore and expand your job and your passions.
I.e. when I go home, work turns off, but if the need arises I have everything I need to perform my work- even for extended periods of time.
I also have all that I need to follow my passions and hobbies. This is a tool set I M building on constantly.
But you really need to have an "offline" mode where no matter what you are completely in a Be Here Now mindset that is 100% devoid of any work-thought