Ok first & foremost, props to
@jmanic for wasting no time at all to call the number and leave me a message. That made me legit LOL last night as I got the email with the MP3 attached. Respect! As it turns out my phone does not ring when you call that number.
Some fast replies in bullet form:
- I don't have an office, other than my office at home, so no free supplies. @jmanic
- My hours are the same, but since I am not being paid by the hour I feel less compelled to work every free minute of the day.
- It is a start-up, so I still work plenty.
- I probably have a little more time to ride. @pooriggy
- Still at home, but not texting on the rollers. I have moved back to the trainer this year. @1sh0t1b33r
- This is actually a raise, so the pay/hours thing works out. @jackx
- No standing desk. @fidodie
- Monday evenings still free. @Glenn Rides After 4 PM CST
- The only real relocation option would be Chicago if I wanted. But I don't. @UtahJoe
- We don't sell toilet products. @rottin'
@fidodie - I am part of development and this, right now, is a small & competent team. Though there are really 2 parts of the requirements gathering here. So...ideally I would go out to the client sites for workshops. This is what I did for both Duke & Christiana (Delaware). I go out and work with the client and build the requirements for their specific implementation. Then I turn these over to an implementation team (3rd party). This 3rd party...in terms of choosing I have some say. But the other part is when I can take some of the things that the customer wants, and take that back to the development team and we try to add it to the product to make the product better. And by virtue of this, we rely on that 3rd party less and less.
@1speed - so the problem with allowing these customers to be part of any design is that they all think they do things the best. And after working with however many clients I can tell you, most of them do most things totally backwards and uniquely. So it's on me to take as many different perspectives as I can and make a design that works for most of them, but requires some form of standardization. Allowing every client to have a totally unique setup is great and all, but it isn't good for upgrades & maintainability. If you are the only customer, then it's not really the same. The MS Project people are my enemy also. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
@Dominos - that's a pretty good description of the mix of skills I need for this. I guess I'm good at a lot of those things but not great at any? I love this role, I will say that.
News Flashes
I won't be going to Stanford. That fell through literally as of about an hour ago.
The picture below is the tragedy happened today. This is a teapot (maybe TPA is Tea Pot Aficionado) that I brought back from Taiwan a bunch of years ago. I have been using this as my oolong tea pot for the last year or more. It is not the best pot in the world but I liked it a bunch. I do have another 1 from the same village which I may need to graduate to. They are probably supposed to be mostly ornamental with the occasional use. I can probably glue it back together which I will consider doing. Either way, behold the tragedy: