If they're trying to modernize the strategy and direction of the organization before bringing in additional SMEs, this makes a lot of sense. Good leadership and a good direction really does matter.

After the overall direction and vision is in place, then they can bring in technical SMEs who are hopefully also direct commissioned in and not just contractors hired for a year or 2.

You should alternate cardio and weight lifting for general health, not just for sleep. The weight training helps with muscle/bone loss as you age

You can practically feel the diabetes when you drink sweet tea in the south.

I don't have to use bleach/vinegar anymore as a result to keep the shirts from stinking.

> To be effective you can't just rely on shedding dead weight like in the civilian sector.

You can though. You shuffle the complete duds/ineffective people off to S&T or an ops shop where they can't get anyone killed. You micromanage the unmotivated and threaten with article 15s. The completely unfit? They're "encouraged" to be failure to adapt or to go AWOL.

I was incredibly unimpressed with military leadership. You can read about my old BC if you're interested: https://journalnow.com/colonels-wife-in-middle-of-military-w...

Anyone can make a team be productive when you can overwork people, if things don't get done you threaten to take their money and threaten a demotion, no one can quit to get away from you, and there is a steady stream of bodies to use.

Civilian leaders have to actually balance keeping people happy and getting things done.

Phillips is doing a replacement and you are supposed to send in your old device for disposal. Not sure what happens if you don't send it in, but they included a box and pre-paid label. No real reason to keep the old cpap since it's being recalled and the risk of being sent a bill from phillips for not returning the old one doesn't make trying to make some money on the side worth it. These things are hundreds of dollars.

For most players, no. It was pve and role playing. Once they split the realms to pvp and non-pvp, the pvp realm had a much lower player base because it was pks, thieves, and old timers who put a house down before the split.

If the game didn't have full looting of dead bodies and stealing there probably could have been much better interactions between the 2 groups of people but getting pk'd and losing all items was so annoying for casual players.

What does this mean? Does this mean you're the same level but have more experience?

If you're all the same level, let the other devs own things. They're the same level and can do as much as you. Let them. You should be doing this anyway so that they can learn how to do this while there's someone with some experience to help guide them.

Are you trying to be hands on and involved in everything to meet your standards? You have to trust the rest of the team and delegate things, and only step in when shit is completely unacceptable or you'll never get any work done. You should definitely talk with your manager about how much time you're spending on this and make sure that they are aligned with you on your priorities.

Lastly... are you still a new hire? Generally it's better to listen and learn as opposed to telling people to do it your way.

Became a software engineer, that was 8 years ago. It's going pretty well now. Highly recommend if you enjoy problem solving and can tolerate writing code.

The most reasonable paths are to go to your state college and get a degree in computer science while trying to get a paid internship every summer then apply for jobs everywhere.

If you don't want to code, get an apprenticeship with a union shop if you want to do the electrician/plumber route although the housing boom is also coming to an end. There's always a market for good electrians/plumbers/contractors.

This would not be a job where it's easy to replace people. It's really, really boring and you can't be check your phone while driving a train.

If you fly a lot, there are also very likely commercial solutions for this.

New services/businesses are how you get promoted. Maintenance or incrementally improve existing functionality and you'll never get promoted.

Amazon isn't really alone in that short sightedness though, it's just extra noticeable when combined with high churn

AWS doesn't grow fast enough so they have revenue

Turning a profit is a failure. The market loves the forever growth strategy.

Is this your personal experience? Where did you get this from? This isn't my experience having done OEF 02/OIF 03 as an 11b in the 82nd, and I was in the follow on forces for both wars so I saw a pretty loose ROE in both countries.

The guys that served after 08 would have no idea what you're even talking about because their ROE was extremely restrictive, essentially they had to be shot at first and use of indirect fire required multiple layers of permission.

Amazon doesn't give free AWS time or free marketing (or really any marketing) to employees. It's not frugal.

Some additional context: this is the newer, better version of the policy where you can work on games. Previously, employees could not work on games at all.

Amazon doesn't really care about people doing stuff on the side, they want your extra hours to go into amazon.

> not define as per the unknown Amazon definition of a "Personal Game".

Amazon has a bunch of lawyers who will take whatever you make if you achieve any kind of succcess.