Don't Get a Job - Jobs are for Suckers
- 1. Uncubed November 2018 Daniel Rolnick Chief Technology Officer ShopKeep
- 5. o You are paying with your • Time • Energy • Emotional Capital
- 6. o Bills need to get paid • All jobs are going to pay you o Money doesn’t buy happiness o The salary needs to be there but… • Shouldn’t be your primary decision factor
- 7. o Don’t go just for the technology • The new hot tech may not be hot for long • Mesosphere vs. Kubernetes • jQuery vs. Angular/React • Objective-C vs. Swift vs. React-Native vs. Flutter vs. Ionic vs. ... o Every job will have good technology • Or at least if it doesn’t stay away or leave quickly o The tech needs to be there but... • Shouldn’t be your primary decision factor
- 8. o You don’t want a job that ruins your life o If it doesn’t have a good balance • Run… o Just like technology… • The balance needs to be there… • But it shouldn’t your primary factor o Same is true for: • Benefits • Office Culture • Educational Opportunities o They need to be there… but...
- 9. o The technology we build serves a purpose o Ask yourself: • What will my time be working towards? • What will people do with our technology? • How does that make me feel? • Would I be proud to say that I work there?
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- 13. o Where did I fit? • Helping the global 1% • Fueling corporate greed o “Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life” • What if you don’t like how your labor of love is used?
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- 18. o Employees are encouraged to drop in… • Get paid to shop local!! o Speak to our customers… o Feel their pain as a business owner… (and their successes!) o Hear how our software is solving their problems • Or not o Learn from them
- 19. o Last year we had ~180 employees o Visit ~1800 merchants o Priceless product research o Fed into roadmaps, hackathons (Code Smash), random patches
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- 21. o Environment • There are tech startups trying to cut emissions or energy usage o Health Care • Tech startups fighting cancer, promoting mental health, democratizing access to care o Find your passion • Fighting poverty • Improving education • etc
- 22. 22 US Bureau of Labor Statistics - April 2018 https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/unemp-per-job-opening.htm
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