@rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic
Fascinating. I don't know how i would have answered. Spontaniety rules! Throughout my career I had zero interest in climbing the corporate ladder. I cared about what projects
I did. I think I'd have said I'm a mechanical engineer and rattled off various projects and accomplishments. So while that is "what my career was" it is more "what I love doing" than any hiercharchical or positional stuff. I might have answered with what I do now, after retiring.
@dbc3 @rabia_elizabeth@mefi.social @actuallyautistic
"I had zero interest in climbing the corporate ladder. I cared about what projects I did"
Exactly this. I love what I do, and what other people do with the things my company makes. Getting promoted would take me away from that, and then it would just be a job, like any other job.
@ScottSoCal @rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic
As a project/program manager I was repeatedly called on to take over and remedy "troubled" projects. That is who I am. I joked I was the Red Adair (oil well fire fighting expert) of systems integration projects. If my personality is not unique, but rather a diagnosable divergence, I put it to good use I can be proud of. I consider my style far better than that of the self aggrandizing autocrats running corp America and of most politicians.
@ScottSoCal @rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic
I had what I consider an enviable run. As a young engineer introducing computer techniques to a long- established industry with engineers 10 to 35 years my senior, I could pretty much function self-directed. They recognized that, gave me projects way above my pay grade. Then I had a series of jobs in tech companies, some salaried, some contract, but all focused on getting something done for a client. Goal sheets, performance reviews? Nah!