Job Questions > How would your co-workers describe you > Steven's Answer

The one I usually get is: "Do you ever sleep, man? Why are you bolding my Inbox at 4am?"

Late night hours aside, I think that my co-workers would probably call out the fact that I'm *all over the map* when it comes to tackling tasks related to software development.

Usually, "development" means just pushing out fresh code. That's fine. That's what we get paid to do.

But I also love the meta of the job just as much, and I think that's where my co-workers start to laugh and shake their heads.

I really enjoy activities such as:
* researching what our competitors are doing
* reading up on what the blogs are saying about us
* setting up internal blogs to help improve cross-functional communication
* setting up wikis to improve documentation
* demonstrating UI ideas by jumping head first into Photoshop
* passing on bug reports to the team by recording full-motion screencasts and describing the issues via microphone ...

At this point, I don't think it would surprise anybody I work with if I were to start some sort of "Release Notes Podcast."

Heh, I don't know, I just live for that stuff. I can't help it.