So now it's just a job - it pays the bills, and you get fulfillment elsewhere. You're not alone at all. It's a quirk that we look to our jobs to be fulfilling. (A noble one, I'll note.)
Or you can go hunting for a more fulfilling job, like this guy.
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Or you can go hunting for a more fulfilling job, like this guy.
I'd agree that managers with soft skills perform better, but even the old-school ass-kicking types can still eek out a performance. And even be rewarded by the higher-ups for that attitude.
In the hyperbolic hypothetical in the article, "But it isn't responsive!" would be a pretty silly criticism, I think.
This tells me that the system has no real architect. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Migrating old data? The people in charge don't know how to do it, and don't much care.
There's a lot of opportunity to fix this service.
That kind of environment can spin out cases like hikikomori. You can see similar trends in the U.S. with respect to startups and overworking, to a smaller scale, usually in the form of "going off the grid."
Communicate. Your everyday boss - who probably senses something is wrong - will be able to find a solution for you. That's part of her job. It might mean trying to keep you on and rearranging things for you. It might mean you give a two-week notice, or shorter. Maybe you get fired on the spot - not very likely, but you're ready to quit anyway, and it would be a mercy. You won't know until you talk about it.
Also - since you're young and not terribly experienced - don't worry so much about what your employer deserves out of you. They will take everything you give them - all of you, if you let them - unless you set boundaries. This is the nature of many relationships, business ones included.
And yes, I've quit jobs with short notice before. In those cases, I wanted to stay longer and see the business to success, but it had to be done. Everyone was better off, every time.
In the start-up period, though, aptitude is a better strategic choice in that you need people who can grow as quickly as the venture.
Later, you need the people with experience, even if they're a bit slow. They're the ones that have been bitten by the edge cases, the deadlocks, the XSS openings - and know to avoid them.
That's not to say that body fat is strictly dependent on caloric intake, but to certain extremes, there's no way around that fact.
What a sucker I was! Good thing PHP came along and taught us all what true webmastery is.
I couldn't care less about who is getting into whatever field, though, so long as they are passionate about it - not just the paycheck.
When any guy off the street can pay $0.005 or whatever to stream your content, your bargaining position is already compromised, because the guy has an alternative to negotiating with you at all.
With a direct deal, you could employ all kinds of strategies. Charge different rates for different songs. Give discounts to some players. Keep the contract short-lived to keep them coming back. I think a lot of that goes out of the window with compulsory licensing.
Full disclosure: I work for Pandora, but am speaking more from my days as a "promoter".
This explains why some people type with only two fingers: no blood in the other eight.
Of course, whenever I have that thought, part of me fears that I'll ironically be vaporized by an errant nuclear weapon, moments later. I reassure myself that, at least, it will be a quick end.
Besides, even a child can point out when an emperor has no clothes.
In my case, it was on a Mac on a PowerPC CPU. It's a far cry from the limited resources of early personal computers, but this was at a time when 3D was hitting big time - the Playstation had just come out - and I was trying to get performance and effects like a GPU could provide. A hobbyist could get decent rasterization effects from a home-grown 3D engine, but I was working as far forward as I could. All that unrolled code, careful memory access, fixed-point math... I spent a lot of time hand-tuning stuff. It wasn't until I dug into a book on PowerPC architecture that I found some instructions that could perform an approximation of the math quickly, and suddenly I was seeing these beautiful, real-time, true-color, texture-mapped, shaded, transparent triangles floating across the screen at 30fps.
It was about that time that the first 3DFX boards started coming out for Macs, though, and that was the end of that era.
From what I can tell, there's only one or two guys at WotC that come close to understanding the data. With the rest of the organization in mind, I highly doubt WotC will open up their data - the business guys wouldn't understand it. It's a closed-source kind of company.