tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post9211910911940311040..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Weekend Reading: The Completely Lacking in a Theme EditionCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-62246568930155433892014-04-17T12:01:22.927-07:002014-04-17T12:01:22.927-07:00Hey, there! It's caramama!
I actually started...Hey, there! It's caramama!<br /><br />I actually started a new job last week, and the culture here is very different than my previous company (where I was for 12 years). This company is an employee-owned company, which was a totally novel concept to me. Perhaps the most major thing I've had to get used to is separating work from home--they don't provide laptops and don't usually give out Blackberries! So when I leave work, I really have been leaving work!<br /><br />Of course, it helps that as a new person my workload is pretty light right now. ;-)<br /><br />Hope all is well with you!caramamahttp://caramamamia.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-30307504535937339522014-04-16T10:00:34.173-07:002014-04-16T10:00:34.173-07:00Please do a post on your favorite podcasts! I wou...Please do a post on your favorite podcasts! I would love to see more options for my own Podcast Favorites List.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-46813520580813644482014-04-14T09:03:27.896-07:002014-04-14T09:03:27.896-07:00Only managers get company laptops, and I am a peon...Only managers get company laptops, and I am a peon.I have heard that managers are more likely to take work home.Dr. Confusednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-75539279003295110442014-04-14T08:45:35.788-07:002014-04-14T08:45:35.788-07:00Cloud, thank you for posting the link to that beau...Cloud, thank you for posting the link to that beautiful article by Andie Fox. I'm a frequent reader at Blue Milk, and I've always loved her writing. I found this piece particularly moving, since a colleague of my husband's recently passed away, leaving two children. Since then, my littlest has been asking a lot of questions about death. And I confess, I have such a horror of imagining my children's life without me, it never would have occurred to me to respond the way Andie did to her daughter, but see that is how to respond, and now I have a new script to rehearse in case my children ever express this fear. Pretending like bad things cannot happen does not create confident children.Erinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-48343731863627586452014-04-12T08:15:59.510-07:002014-04-12T08:15:59.510-07:00My IT environment is only slightly less paranoid- ...My IT environment is only slightly less paranoid- we don't have webmail. If I want to check my email, I have to get my work laptop, log into the VPN, and then check. It certainly makes me less likely to do a quick check. I had strong boundaries and personal rules about checking email at home even when I worked at a place with webmail and that allowed VPN from my home computer.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-79076694511745796112014-04-12T08:10:37.646-07:002014-04-12T08:10:37.646-07:00That doesn't surprise me. Most "cool"...That doesn't surprise me. Most "cool" jobs are quite competitive. Frankly, right now, most jobs are pretty competitive. <br /><br />Another type of job to consider would be product management. It is a job where strong analytical skills and the ability to think about a lot of different streams of info and figure out what the team should do is important. You'd have to be OK with a marketing component though.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-44688787495160402292014-04-12T06:57:18.564-07:002014-04-12T06:57:18.564-07:00We have friends in game design... it may be more c...We have friends in game design... it may be more competitive than academia! The one who does tabletop seems to have a more relaxed life than the ones who do video games, but he also has a technical skill that is both necessary and rare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-75911770505299128682014-04-12T03:35:03.751-07:002014-04-12T03:35:03.751-07:00The company I work for is paranoid about IT securi...The company I work for is paranoid about IT security. It is therefore impossible for me to check e-mail if I am not physically on the site. It is mostly impossible for me to do any kind of work from home (exceptions are reading/editing reports, which is a small fraction of my work, and thinking about thorny problems, which I can't avoid doing). There is also generally a culture that you try hard to not call people if they are sick or on vacation, though I have received one call on vacation once. This makes a strict separation between work and home, and it is GREAT.<br /><br />I live in Germany, but my company is international. I don't know if the UK or American divisions have the same sort of culture, but they do have the same paranoid IT system. Dr. Confusednoreply@blogger.com