We've never had any form of allowed remote work, until 2020, when we instantly sent 95% of our workforce home with a laptop. IT provided, and still provides, written instruction with screenshots with each laptop.
In 2021, we all returned to the office since the vaccine became readily available and management assumed "we beat covid".
Learning from that, management decided to create a policy allowing telework (provided your position met the criteria, and a form was submitted by employee to request telework) since it was so "popular." However, despite the policy being effective Jan 1, 2022, they have yet to finalize the list of approved positions or create the request form.
I understand that so far this has sounded like a management problem (and it is), however staff continue to email us, while at home, asking for assistance (how do I VPN? My drives have a red X! Can you fix my home wifi?) and we are looking for a tactful response. Staff are being sent home on the suspicion of covid without notifying anyone. Continuation of this will likely cause an end to PTO (boss' asking if staff are SUREEE they're too sick to work??), and failure to have a protocol of who's allowed at home and when will cause unfair work environments.
I want to help staff, but I'm tired of answering the same questions to the same staff, who won't learn without some tough love. If I give tough love, management scoffs that I'm being unfair/mean and not helping staff.
Hey all,
Graduated in 2020 and I’ve been in management consulting for a little over a year, currently work at a midsized boutique firm. Overall, I’ve been very happy with my work life experience - I work with some smart people, Ive gotten exposure to a variety of industries, and as far as soft skills (communication, organization, prioritizing responsibilities, client interactions, ectr) I definitely feel that management consulting has enhanced my skills in these areas.
However, as I think long term about my career and what I am looking for, the only hesitation that I have is that it seems in management consulting there is a low emphasis on technical skills and a higher premium on these soft skills - sales, negotiating, building client relationships, and strategy related work. As someone who graduated with a degree in Finance, I hoped the work would be a bit more analytical in nature, but it seems to me that is more applicable to other areas of consulting such as Financial, Technology, Data Analysis (at least at my firm).
I guess my question is, for those in management consulting do you feel you have built a set technical skills throughout your career and gotten that experience or is that something that isn’t really emphasized? Dont get me wrong, the aspect of building those relevant soft skills does interest me, but Im concerned that 10 years from now my technical skills will basically be composed of being a wizard in powerpoint along with some very basic excel skills. Would love to hear your guys thoughts and suggestions. Thanks!
I am a front end developer with 3+ years of experience. I want to switch to a managerial position. What are my options?
Edit: Just to clarify, I do have experience managing a team and I definitely don't think it's an easy job. But I definitely do think it's interesting, again I mean interesting not easy. I know 3 years of experience isn't much and I would be grateful if you can suggest what I can do to get on the path
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TL;DR - don't daytrade / use futures trading if you want to make money. Buy and hodl good projects and try to time appropriate exit points.
I'd like to take a phrase someone else used before, "All models are wrong but some are useful." Yes, that's Benjamin Cowen, aka Into the Cryptoverse.
In 2019 I saw a crypto youtuber who said bitcoin could potentially reach 46,000 USD by the end of 2019. I forget the exact timeline, but this was also around the time that bitcoin started looking bullish after a bear market that lasted a bit more than a year.
Everybody wants to sell the top and buy the bottom. However, when people pay attention to the charts / price action of bitcoin, very few people actually pay attention to the on chain metrics. What do I mean by this? I remember we went beyond 40k Twice and hit 29k twice in early 2021. But just a month or two ago we peaked at 68k or 69k and began our downward trajectory towards an eventual flash crash to 42k a week or two ago.
If you paid attention to on-chain metrics, you would see that during this time although bitcoin prices were dropping on all exchanges, there were still bitcoins leaving exchanges, indicating people were withdrawing and holding their BTC. The people who just want to make money off of bitcoin are not thinking long term, and are therefore not removing their bitcoin from exchanges. They are just buying and selling and possibly losing money in the process.
Hey Guys,
As the subject states, I am getting to a point in my career where the next step forks and I will have to decide if I want to stay and get deeper technically (architect level) or if I want to go the management path (manager level). Currently, I am a Principal (Senior) Engineer on my team and I do a lot of 'team lead / technical lead' tasks, but I still get my hands dirty with the engineering and technical details often.
However, I have been told and I know that my 'soft skills' have always been a big strength of mine (communication, empathy, people stuff, etc.) and several of my old managers always commented that they thought I would make a good manager. I know being a manager goes deeper than the people skills though, such as could I stomach firing someone and preventing them from bringing food home to their families, etc. if they are dead weight for example.
So, I guess what I am trying to ask here is for those that made the jump to management, why did you do it? What are the best parts of your job now that you are a manager and not the individual contributor / engineer that is doing the technical work? What are the worst parts? Do you regret your decision, and wish you stayed as an individual contributor and still did a lot of the engineering / devOps work?
Any feedback / insight / comments would be super appreciated! Maybe I should look if there is a manager subreddit to also post this question to.
Thanks everyone!
Was watching a “Chat With Traders” podcast on Risk Management and saw the following comment:
“Pick two random indicators, one for entry and one for exit. Have a concrete risk management strategy and it’s almost impossible to not break even”.
Do you agree or disagree with that notion? I feel like I’ve wasted so much time early in my trading on trying to perfect indicators or find the best entry scenarios and that, in retrospect, had I just stuck to one or two basic indicators and just been militant about risk management, I would’ve done just as fine if not better.
Curious to see whether you guys agree with that approach.
I am looking to potentially make this switch. I have a learning plan for myself and have been studying the fundamentals of linux, networking, and pen-testing methodologies.
Wondering how I can make this switch with all my technical knowledge being self taught. Im also wondering how much of a pay cut I would need to take. Thanks in advance!
I was a technical person, with lots analytics and coding experience. For the last year I've been in management, and I feel my skills stagnating at best and decaying at worst. People in leadership or management promoted from a technical individual contributor role, and now you are doing less technical stuff and more leading, planning, project management, people management, operations, and decision making, how do you keep your skills relevant?
I live in a country with a lot of facilities for waste management, and generally a high degree of different materials is recycled. When I hear about for example plastic pollution in the oceans, or waste creating problems on streets in cities, or the hazards due to landfills - I have a difficult time understanding why this is happening.
TL:DR Plan was to move up through technical roles in IT, now considering management - Any advice?
After about 10 years in customer service/sales/retail management I decided to change careers to IT in May this year. I started right at the bottom as 1st line support in the NHS and have moved to another hospital and been promoted to 2nd line since then.
The purpose of getting into IT was to try something completely new, and the plan was 1st line > 2nd line> Infrastructure, but I'm wondering whether I'm better off utilising my existing skills in my new environment and going into management.
The previous hospital I worked for and my current hospital are merging next year, which means there will be a new first line management opportunity and I think I have a small chance given my management experience and knowledge of both environments. Looking at job postings in other hospitals, it's quite a big step up from my current salary.
Just wanted to know thoughts from other service desk managers - How have you found it? Are there many opportunties after that role? And are there any resources out there to prepare me in the mean time?
I’m considering tech track bc MGMT requires 2 accounting classes and I hate math. But I’m currently working in Digital Marketing so MIS would be relevant, and I’m not into doing actual technical stuff.
I don’t know how a degree would apply irl. Like could I get a manager position easier w MIS, assuming technical ones are more entry level IT support type? Idk.
Any context or advice is welcome
I’m a data scientist in the insurance field. I’m payed less than $75k. I feel impostor syndrome because I am really not good at certain tools and softwares like SQL. I don’t know where to start! Got into field since it’s STEM and would help my visa chances. But now I’m gonna be a citizen in some months and want to switch to something I’ve always been more passionate about - product management and sales engineering(pre sales tech). I feel there are 3 bottlenecks -1 my resume is highly technical and lacks sales exp or managerial exP -2 I’ve been in this role for 3 years now and haven’t had a promotion
- 3 the insurance field really closes doors for other fields of opportunity since the tech recruiters view you as someone who isn’t used to fast pace and challenges. How do I increase my chances? What do I need to do to land those jobs and have a better life
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Hey Guys,
As the subject states, I am getting to a point in my career where the next step forks and I will have to decide if I want to stay and get deeper technically (architect level) or if I want to go the management path (manager level). Currently, I am a Principal (Senior) Engineer on my team and I do a lot of 'team lead / technical lead' tasks, but I still get my hands dirty with the engineering and technical details often.
However, I have been told and I know that my 'soft skills' have always been a big strength of mine (communication, empathy, people stuff, etc.) and several of my old managers always commented that they thought I would make a good manager. I know being a manager goes deeper than the people skills though, such as could I stomach firing someone and preventing them from bringing food home to their families, etc. if they are dead weight for example.
So, I guess what I am trying to ask here is for those that have made the decision to make the jump to a manager path, why did you do it? What are the best parts of your job now that you are a manager and not the individual contributor / engineer that is doing the technical work? What are the worst parts? Do you regret your decision, and wish you stayed as an individual contributor and still did a lot of the engineering / technical work?
Any feedback / insight / comments would be super appreciated! Maybe I should look if there is a manager subreddit to also post this question to.
Thanks everyone!
