Diversity & Inclusion

Leading yourself

I made the mistake of taking a wrong turn into a bad position and finally realized after years that I needed to take care of things myself.  I have taught myself and utilized books and personal training and networking and just listening to myself and others to rise above that terrible time and learn more and finally become someone I can be proud of again.  Learning to lead myself is most assuredly the way to the next step in anyone’s career.  

Morals or Ethics

today someone publicly embarrassed a number of people at work on purpose. why is this allowed?

Year End Reviews and New Goals

Goals for 2018 change and morph. It’s a great time to revamp them but they are a daily weekly, monthly process that should be reviewed often to remain relevant.

Quality Assurance

Working in a new area but a necessary one.  Those of us in the industry for a long time easily remember when QA was handled by the developer and users just let you know when it didn’t work…in production.  That has changed.  However we are now moving as an organization from the above to a

Working Hours

I just left a position where I worked 10-12 hours nearly every day. I never received any extra time for those hours.  It was expected. It was the job.  There was no recognition for family time.  They did say you can go home – its an 8 hour day job. It was not because we

Burnout

I spent most of my career working long hours and being proud of it.  It made no difference if I was in my 20s or not (as is the case more than 25 years later).  In fact, I spent the last 4 years, until 6 months ago, running raged working 10 -12 hours a day