And if everyone else is, the productivity floor is raised but every other competitor has done the same so we don't have 10x the economic output, maybe only a marginal increase. If that is true, then there will be no days off because we have just reset the status quo.

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Slight tinnitus here but had it for as long as I can remember.

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/government_surplus.html

I love talking too, part of why I think pre-sales is a lot of fun. And I actually love my CRM work from a data perspective, but my background is in synthesizing data and optimization. Once I turned my sales process into a network optimizing problem, it became extremely interesting to me and imperative to keep the data current.

If you're working in SaaS or commodity products and have to run POCs a lot, you're totally correct.

Honestly I had a negative connotation about sales for most of my career, but turns out I really love it. The exposure to different problems every day is awesome and more like a puzzle than work to me. I feel a bit of reverse imposter syndrome though, like I should feel bad that I didn't "make it" as a real engineer. So that's a weird feeling.

One thing I try to do in my company is pull engineers into sales calls and proofs-of-concepts if I can. I think that exposure to both real users and unique environments is important for their growth and novelty in the job.

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It's funny, I still think about that feeling weekly. My memory of it happening while working out a homework problem is actually sort of like in the first Harry Potter movie when Harry gets his wand: warm, bright lighting, widening eyes, and a feeling like my head was a helium balloon.

Much like many others in this administration. People worth their merit to lead these organizations say no, so we're left with egotistical personnel who were destined to top out at middle management.

This is the most hilarious thing I've read on this site. Your cousin might get some weird looks waving to random people, but why would they feel unsafe? I have never known more of my neighbors than in Boston, and I've lived all over the U.S.

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/31/2002242359/-1/-1/1/DOD...

Now the one API wrapper projects that I love are my meeting transcription and summarization apps. You can tear those from my cold, dead hands.

https://www.gpsworld.com/one-gps-mystery-solved-another-rema...

A good manager will find ways to communicate with each individual, usually in an individualized fashion (I say this as an ex-military, but nerdy city slicker guy). Sometimes it takes me a few tries to figure it out for everyone, but it's been helpful to connect with everyone on my team and even outside collaborators.