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 <mccollo_at_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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