himespau 

Tough call. It depends what's more important to you. My dad always left jobs when he got promoted or took jobs where he couldn't be promoted because he liked working with his hands and hated managing other people. But when you live in the midwest sometimes you can afford to take less money do what you like (or at least hate the least). That isn't true everywhere and isn't a choice everyone would choose, especially if you're hoping to get a nest egg. Maybe a few promotions later, you'll find you really like managing things/people. And, if not, offers in hand always make you feel good (and could be used as leverage if possible).

himespau 

Are they looking for a new web developer? That'd be a hell of a trick on your interview. Come in and show them how you've fixed their website to be more efficient and make them look better. You'd either get an offer right off the bat or get shown the door because you insulted the project the boss's kid spent the summer working on.

On a sort of related note, I just read about how Uber sends special codes with puzzles in them to people taking rides in the Cambridge area near Harvard and MIT, and if you can solve them and prove you can do some coding, they offer you a job. What a neat way to recruit.

mike868y

i wouldn't consider $65 for a 60 mile road race to be on the higher end in 2016.

grolby

Maybe not.

BUT BACK IN MY DAY

TMonk

Ya, I hear ya. I can say that I certainly prefer managerial and interpersonal roles over purely technical ones at this point. Advising, interpreting, and decision-making based upon lab results gets me more excited than actually collecting them. I also get a good (small) amount of customer interaction through the Analytical Services business that I lead.

I'm the Product Manager's right-hand man here, training all new hires and reviewing data/results before they're passed to him. When he's out, I get to fill his roles: Pass/Failing QC data, publishing CoA's, and assigning labor based upon incoming product orders.

The aforementioned new opportunity is advertised as a "Chemist" with 3-5 years of ICP-MS experience (my area of expertise), but it's essentially for an ICP tech: I'd have to revert back to sample prep, for example. Not too excited about that.

Still, there is an opportunity for me to move around within the company as I would overlap with Engineering, Sales, R&D and MfG, and of course the potential for lab manager or supervisor is on the horizon, although the two ladies currently filling that role assured me that they wouldn't be leaving anytime soon.

Le sigh.

Flatballer

I've never had the role of managing people, but if I take this new job I'm probably basically at the ceiling of my earning potential (for my experience, it will go up, but no huge jumps) as an individual contributor. If I want to advance past that, I'll probably have to begin moving into more of a management role, either of projects, or people, or decisions, or all three.

I wouldn't mind doing the managing of people's workload and facilitating decisions and making big decisions, it's the HR part of managing that sounds awful, and it's often a package deal. I do enjoy just doing things though.

tetonrider

ah.... great minds, and all that.


would YOU hire YOURSELF? i wouldn't!

grolby

Uh-oh. I think I'm getting sick. Is there anything I can do in the next 48 hours that might ameliorate the impact and prevent me from totally sucking this weekend? Or do I drink fluids, get plenty of sleep and just hope for the best?

I rarely get sick so I don't really know how to handle it.

gsteinb

don't get sick or you could die

caloso

What else can you do?

Harlan

My wife swears by zinc right as she's getting sick, shortens the cold etc.

But really, we've been sick so much less since we went vegan. Just sayin'.

Now, to go complete the workout I couldn't get my ass out of bed this morning to do.

grolby

I assume nothing! Nothing that isn't pseudoscience, anyway. Just grasping at straws here. I'm going to hope it's just allergies, take a claritin when I get home and hope for the best.

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe.

But it's not diet. Like I said, I very seldom get sick. About every 18 months or so is my usual interval. I figure I'm not due, cause I last got sick in early October. Heh. Not that that really means anything, but it's offending my sense of normality.

Harlan

Are we going to have to sit down and have the "training too hard" talk then?

hack

Dang ... $65 is a lot. $40 is my max (excluding stage races) unless there is something stellar about the race.

mike868y

hope you don't have what i had, otherwise you are doomed.

but yeah, zinc.

himespau 

Prince, man, Prince...

tetonrider

if you're truly sick, there's not much you can do to avoid it, but you can reduce symptoms and/or reduce the duration....maybe. who know? the stuff is never a controlled experiment.

fluids and sleep/rest/no workouts do you more good than any efforts, even if feeling good. sometimes light (z1/z2) stuff can stimulate the immune system a bit, but it's a fine line.

i figure we're all pretty much in the 'ride more' category at the point where we frequent this forum; this is a situation where 'ride less' is probably better.

i do the zinc and the C stuff. i also do saline sinus rinses (i like the neilmed aerosol rinses, personally).

check globalDRO.org for your meds, if you are thinking of racing.

personally, i fall into the camp of avoid meds as much as possible, but lately i've found that taking something during the day that reduces symptoms either helps the cold go away faster--or it just makes me feel better/more energetic/more productive while the cold is still there. i'm a bit less strict that i used to be; if you can take something that helps you sleep at night, your body will get repair itself better/faster, i believe (vs sleeping poorly, waking up constantly, coughing).

i get lots of vitamin C; you don't have to resort to those packets--there's plenty in fruits and vegetables.

some of that OTC nasal stuff is pretty good, like flonase. legal, too, last i checked (2 years ago). i've used it once in an emergency and it seemed to help (again, who knows for sure?). my wife loves it.

if you do race while sick, i believe you can perform really well, esp if you are rested and it is just a 1-day race...but i'd make sure to over-rest afterwards or you risk having things move deeper, getting a sinus infection, losing 4-6 weeks. ask me how i know!

spectastic

home remedy for preventing sickness:

drink a lot of fluid
drip h2o2 into ear canal (it's been theorized that viral infections come in through the ear into the body)
olive oil on skin
light exercise 2 hours/day no more, no less
jerk off 10 times/day, no less
vitamin C
get a dog and/or cat, the more the better. they will help you boost your immune system
pray, go to church, and recycle

spectastic

it's that silicon valley spirit.

rideaz

16 years of teaching and raising my own kids helped me build a pretty good immune system. I used to take Airborne if there was something particularly contagious going around. Now that I work in an office with adults, I realize how much they get sick too. I'm all about prevention. Good diet, adequate sleep and lots of hand sanitizer. I have lots of paper cuts on my hands from filing so it's about 10 seconds of pain every time I use the hand sanitizer!

TMonk

srsly! tragic loss.

rankin116

You're not serious about this, right?

globecanvas

That seems like one of the less controversial items in the list.

Anyway, didn't you read Hamlet?

Wylde06

Hydrogen Peroxide For Colds and Flu

rankin116

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/flu...nsmission.aspx