Category: People and Opinions

That thing you want to do? Do the thing.

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date July 29, 2017
Categories In Career, Community, People and Opinions, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

You’re thinking of starting a blog, or teaching, or training videos. Will it pay off? Will it be worth it? Could he keep up with it? Will you end up embarrassing yourself? Let’s talk.

There’s no substitute for mentoring

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date July 18, 2017
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

There’s no substitute for mentoring. We’ve heard it before, and in various ways, but I think we tend to largely ignore it. Americans, at least, aren’t used to a mentor system, and we’re not in the habit of asking for mentors. But mentors can be great. You can stop them mid-sentence and say, “wait, I […]

Employees, encourage work from home

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date May 22, 2017
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
4 Comments on Employees, encourage work from home

The discussion around the last article I wrote on work from home (WFH) has been wonderful, but there is one aspect that drives me nutty-freaking bonkers: “But, I don’t want to work from home!“ Oh, my stars and grasslands. Techies: I don’t want to force work from home. I’m not trying to make you. I’m not telling employers to […]