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@colinwalker If there had been a real market for being a contractor / consultant / outsourced around here, I'd do it again.
I actually enjoyed being a part of one team for six months and then another for six more. And I loved that I could skip more or less every single meeting and just code. Because why would they pay for me sitting in a lot of (boring) meetings not in any way relevant for my work?
Some people love it, I guess most don't.
@hjertnes In the industry I’m in, and with the clients involved, it was long term placements (years) so while there was the possibility to move from time to time it was the exception rather than the rule.
@hjertnes You could, and I did once, but it was preferred if you didn’t - keeping the client happy due to team stability was key.
@colinwalker Stuff like that is just idiotic. Either you hire people, or you accept that people move around. You have to take both the bad and the good.
@colinwalker Your reference to “[h]aving your own site and using that as your main identity” reminded me of something I wrote years ago:
I wouldn’t mind other people with the same name appearing above me, if it was their proper sites; but to me social-network profiles feel like distinctly second-class web entities.
Or is that snobbish?
Far from snobbish, it now feels positively indieweb-centric.
But probably still a bit snobbish.
The worst thing is that when I DuckDuck for myself today, my site is even further down, with my Twitter and LinkedIn profiles above it.
@devilgate I don’t think that’s snobbish at all. That we have come to rely on social profiles as our primary identities on the web is extremely sad.
@colinwalker I like your take here. My software background, such as it is, is from open source projects, and even though Micro.blog isn’t open-source, it’s an open community around the open web, so they still dovetail well. In open source, if one wants to support a project and can’t code (or pay someone to code), there are all sorts of non-code things one can do: write documentation, answer user questions, find/triage bugs and test new builds, design, etc. So here I try to answer questions whenever I can, write and share these little WP tweaks, etc., and by doing so, I’m hopefully contributing to the community and helping @manton and @macgenie have a little bit more time to actually code or manage the community or be a human :-)
@smokey Thanks. You’re right, of course, and I know that some of the things I’ve done have helped a number of people but sometimes it just doesn’t feel enough. I think that’s why I made the promise at the end (that was very much an organic addition) and will try to do what I can to help that tide rise so we’re all lifted.
