Oct 30
Career Advice: Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer
I love frank posts like this written by veteran techies:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
As someone who has usually worked at Cost Centers, this patagraph is especially interesting:
You really want to be attached to Profit Centers because it will bring you higher wages, more respect, and greater opportunities for everything of value to you. It isn’t hard: a bright high schooler, given a paragraph-long description of a business, can usually identify where the Profit Center is. If you want to work there, work for that. If you can’t, either a) work elsewhere or b) engineer your transfer after joining the company.
