Tag: work
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The pinnacle of my career
Not long ago I wrote about a time I was fired under some pretty stinky circumstances. And then there was the time I worked under the CEO who lied in court about having sexually harassed his assistant. And I still haven’t told the story about the company owner who went to prison. Fortunately, my long…
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Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me
Recently blogger Evil HR Lady asked for stories of spectacular comebacks – career hard times that spawned spectacular success. I had just such an experience and shared my story with her. She liked it so much that she published it, along with six other stories of rising from the ashes. She condensed my story to its…
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Just call me Mr. Consistent
20 years ago one of my duties at work was to manage a network of Macintosh computers. This only sounds impressive to people who don’t know how dead simple it was to network Macintoshes back then. It was the easiest job I’ve ever had. Our file server was a Macintosh SE/30 – 16 MHz, 1…
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Products and customers
This month marks my 19th anniversary of making my living in software development (except for a brief detour into publishing). Overall, it’s been a satisfying ride. I started my career in 1989 at a small, privately owned software company in Terre Haute. There were lots of independent software companies in Indiana then, most of them located…