I think a great question would be: what would you REALLY like to be
doing? And I'm meaning that professionally, not "I'd rather be
sailing/sleeping/drinking a beer." Pretend that the daily niggling
bits of the job are gone and money is no object -- what would you do?
kc
Quoting Matt McCollow <mcco...@mcmaster.ca>:
"Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can
contrive is why not?" - David Foster Wallace
I do what I do because I like learning how things work, taking
things apart and seeing what makes them tick. I like taking an idea
I have and making something with it, and I like taking things that
are broken and making them work. I think if I hadn't gone down the
developer path, I might have liked to be a mechanic.
Matt McCollow
Web Developer
Mills Library, McMaster University
On 2011-09-28, at 1:44 PM, Eric Hellman wrote:
I think it's a good question, worth asking about *every* dev
position being hired for. I would be interested to hear an answer
from others on the list. In fact, I think the price of putting a
position announcement on Code4lib should be a willingness to answer
"why?". And "why not?" is a pretty pathetic answer.
For me, I'm doing what I'm doing because I think it's important and
because no one else is doing it. I hope there are many other with a
similar answer.
Eric
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