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Re: Do you voluntarily develop long-term projects on the job?
Subject:Re: Do you voluntarily develop long-term projects on the job? From:David Tremblay <techwrit -at- mediom -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:28:04 -0400
Hello all,
It's my first intervention on list, please be tolerant with my flaky
english...
It's a must to have long term project on the job, and TW should have
such because we always need to prove we worth the money they are
investing. Also, it's a business good practice to let the employees
train themselves. It's also a good practice to have R&D being part of
the organizational culture.
Management may not be willing to let you invest time to do those
"experiments" so in order to "please" them you must do it without they
aknowledgement. That's the "taking risk" skill one should developp and
drives the whole capitalistic economy.
Finaly, doing side projects may become a way to expand our expertise
beyond writing, and when times come to lay off you might save your a**
because you're not only a cost overhead on the product, you prove your
part of developments teams.
My 2 cents and have a nice day all...
David Tremblay
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