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When you’re interviewing with a new company, pay attention to their benefits. Even the ones that aren’t important to you personally. Benefits don’t just include health/dental/vision insurance and retirement/pension (I’ll call these “core benefits”). It …
Continue readingMost of us spend at least eight hours per day working. In America, we spend an average of 25 minutes commuting, each way. That’s nine hours dedicated to work every day. You probably see your coworkers as much as you see your friends and significant other. …
Continue readingThis blog post takes a tangent from my usual technology-specific ramblings, but I’ll make the connection eventually. Just bear with me. Dumplings Today, I was craving some mapo tofu, so I went to one of my favorite lunch joints, Dumpling Daughter (website). As …
Continue readingNo, I’m not discouraging anyone from being a DBA. I’m just discouraging DBAs from being A-holes. DBAs (and IT folk in general) have a terrible reputation for being curmudgeons, jerks, and a-holes. These guys exist, and working with them is a miserable …
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