Scott Bishop's profile answers

Residential construction, commercial leasing, facilities maintainence.

Promoted from within. Been with company 9 years. Previously with a larger company and was able to bring
that expertise to this company. Dedicated worker and quick learner and able to adapt proceedures from
experience to streamline and save company money.

Donate it all. Stay hungry, stay foolish!

"The Football Team Who Was Bad, But Then Became Good in the Championship Game"

from: http://www.slate.com/id/2148343/

Solve the money problem in one shot, quit work, play drums in a rock band. Go to school to be a nurse and work pro-bono at a hospital during the day.

Interviewing for Jobster. They didn't even ask for my resume. It started as an informal lunch with the CTO and the only other web dev at the time, where we tossed around ideas on how to apply technology to the recruiting problem-space. Later in the week, I came in to the office a few times, for 2 or 3 interviews each. The whole time it was very low pressure, more like I was getting to meet my future teammates and solve problems with/for them....

In college, I interviewed for a job at the Nat'l Archives & Records building in Sandpoint. The building occupies at least 2 city blocks, so it was hard to find the man I was supposed to meet. It was a group interview, so I could see who I was up against. Since it was a goverment job, I had to fill out about 10 pages of forms before I could even talk to the man. And the entire interview consisted of him seeing if I could lift boxes of papers and carry them up and down ladders. I didn't accept the job offer....

I hope they'd say: I get the right stuff done, on time. I'm laser focused on both business and technical goals. I try to keep pointless meetings short and on topic. I obsess about the user experience.

But they'd probably say: I like to end long email threads by opening up bugs. I put my foot in my mouth all the time at meetings. I wear the same outfit 2 or 3 days in a row....

My role models are the more experienced devs that I've worked with. People who can look at a problem and wrap their minds around it instantly and come up with an elegant solution to it.

Also, other people in the industry who have a healthy balance in the work life and their home life, especially other parents....

Read a lot of technology blogs and start using the technologies that interest you most. Offer to help on OSS projects. Put your work out there to build a portfolio.