in reply to Project Structure Revisited

True experts do not “starve.”

They always have more work than they can do.   And, people wait in line to have them do it (or direct it).

And I will also opine this:   in thirty years of doing this crazy computer-programming thing, I have never in my life seen quite such a company of bona fide experts, “all in one place,” as is found right here.   And I do not presume to count myself among their number.

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Re^2: Project Structure Revisited
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 17, 2010 at 04:47 UTC

    ++ however there were a lot of out of work PhDs around when I was a kid in rural New Mexico; the proximity of the Sandia and Los Alamos National labs. LSD was $4 a tab, at most, because some of the unemployed were chemists.

    Expertise can't always overcome personal choices or quirks. An expert with an inconvenient personality tick or unusually strong ethics will have a much harder time finding work. One easy example: Deciding against working for the US government as a conscientious position can cut a huge swath right through the available jobs. Hell, your very expertise can count against you if you're engaged in a field that is highly regulated or political. People who know exactly what they are doing can be a burden or even a legal liability in those situations.

    (I'm pro-expertise and highly pro-work, I just has to calls 'em like I sees 'em.)

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      Your Mother++ # for taking a shot at a small part of the underlying task in CB earlier.

      I'm reckless enough to throw many hours into reading dense tomes, most of which I know in advance (based on prior experience in kind) will prove but tangential to my immediate needs; I'm flush enough to throw dollars away on books that I'll read twice, store for five years, and then give away. Somewhere, I know, will be the book that speaks directly to my needs and which I will thumb over to destruction. I may as well take oko1's advice and wave cash in the air, if that's what it takes to shake the fruit from the tree.

      So, I'll offer first to the Monastery the US$100 contract to produce a recommended reading list on the topic of project file and folder management. Any Monk is welcome to submit a two- or three-line bid showing you understand what I seek. If the bid is accepted, I'll PayPal in advance, in full. I propose fulfillment in a month but I'm flexible. If the bid is rejected, I'll explain why unless you expressly request I not. The work-for-hire: the reading list; becomes my property and I will publish it here under the same terms as PerlMonks itself.

      We don't need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things.... It's time some people knew they've got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us.
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Re^2: Project Structure Revisited
by Xiong (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2010 at 12:56 UTC

    I agree that Monks seem to know more about writing Perl, in almost any imaginable scope, than any other group I've seen. I suspect I'm incompetent to judge the full extent of the group's competency. :)

    That's why I'm so interested in Monks' opinions -- enough to dodge considerable opprobrium in hopes of getting a few.

    We don't need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things.... It's time some people knew they've got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us.
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