Comments on: Naysayers… http://www.notsonerdy.com/2006/01/20/naysayers/ A not so nerdy developers look at programming and life. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:48:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matthew Williams http://www.notsonerdy.com/2006/01/20/naysayers/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Matthew Williams Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:07:27 +0000 http://www.notsonerdy.com/2006/01/20/naysayers/#comment-15 I can't believe I missed the comment here Remetep... As I have said before I need to keep this going or I need to pull down the site. I totally get your point and I of course know what you are talking about. It has been 10 months since I have written this article and I have seen monumental changes here and mostly for the good. To your last point... I can resonate. Keep in mind I when I wrote this I was on my way to being the only developer here... with no manager. I was sick of hearing the stories day in and day out about how unhappy people were and yet they were telling me. Nothing could be done with that and the ones that needed to know where only being informed by a handful. Some just didn't know how to listen. I must say that has changed quite a bit now. Those who weren't listening to the team where being shunned by it and it made a difference... a very large one. I think you saw that in your last days here too. The only true happiness is when those unforseens you speak of are caused by yourself. That is the true happiness of being self employed! =þ I can’t believe I missed the comment here Remetep… As I have said before I need to keep this going or I need to pull down the site.

I totally get your point and I of course know what you are talking about. It has been 10 months since I have written this article and I have seen monumental changes here and mostly for the good.

To your last point… I can resonate. Keep in mind I when I wrote this I was on my way to being the only developer here… with no manager. I was sick of hearing the stories day in and day out about how unhappy people were and yet they were telling me. Nothing could be done with that and the ones that needed to know where only being informed by a handful. Some just didn’t know how to listen. I must say that has changed quite a bit now. Those who weren’t listening to the team where being shunned by it and it made a difference… a very large one. I think you saw that in your last days here too.

The only true happiness is when those unforseens you speak of are caused by yourself. That is the true happiness of being self employed! =þ

]]> By: Remetep http://www.notsonerdy.com/2006/01/20/naysayers/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Remetep Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:28:57 +0000 http://www.notsonerdy.com/2006/01/20/naysayers/#comment-13 As you say, the key to making a difference is all in your attitude. I survived at "your company" for a long time because I recognize that chaos is an opportunity. It is an opportunity to improve things, and an opportunity to be instrumental in the improvement process. On the other hand, I think it is important to understand the limitations of the culture and the roadblocks that exist. You can't go around an obstacle that you can't see. The concept of "shifting" is a good one, mainly because it reduces exhaustion. It is exhausting to keep crashing into the same barriers. It also becomes a drag to have to keep doding the same barriers, but that takes longer to get to you. I managed to last a little over three years. No job is perfect anyway, so it is cool if you can make the best of the one you have. If you reach a time when all this "energy" is used up, you can always make the big "shift" and try again. As you say, the key to making a difference is all in your attitude. I survived at “your company” for a long time because I recognize that chaos is an opportunity. It is an opportunity to improve things, and an opportunity to be instrumental in the improvement process. On the other hand, I think it is important to understand the limitations of the culture and the roadblocks that exist. You can’t go around an obstacle that you can’t see.

The concept of “shifting” is a good one, mainly because it reduces exhaustion. It is exhausting to keep crashing into the same barriers. It also becomes a drag to have to keep doding the same barriers, but that takes longer to get to you. I managed to last a little over three years.

No job is perfect anyway, so it is cool if you can make the best of the one you have. If you reach a time when all this “energy” is used up, you can always make the big “shift” and try again.

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