Climbing the IT Career Ladder » children Robin "Roblimo"
Miller's tips for getting ahead in IT Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:46:12
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+0000 We all talk about “career advancement,” meant in the
financial or promotion sense. That is, you might start out on a
helpdesk, and work for free at night on an open source project.
After a while you get promoted into either a programming or IT
management job — or move to another company at a higher level
than you were at in the company with which you started. Need for
money can drive our desire for promotions — especially if
children are involved, since they’re one of the most expensive
hobbies you can have. But is money everything? What about job
satisfaction? Can you increase your income without decreasing
job satisfaction? Can you increase your job satisfaction without
decreasing your income? Better yet, can you increase job
satisfaction *and* income at the same time?  There are 168 hours
in a week. We like to think ou