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Very good question.
I've answered "reasonably".
In fact, there are so many aspects to consider, should you really want to ask yourself that question. Is it enough what you know, what you learned? Does the environment you work in any importance? Is the fact that "you feel comfortable" a resource subject of corporate management?
SkyWalker
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You could say "yet a security issue" 
SkyWalker
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Our agency (Texas government agency, who shall remain nameless), recently made a 1.1 billion dollar error. The solution is to re-organize and reduce the support staff (IT, Accounting, Equipment Mechanics, among a few other disciplines). Funny how that works. 
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Does it matter if someone feels secure or not in his/her work? The point is that everyone is constandtly looking for better work at another employee. And if you find it, you will leave in an instant from the job you are now in (no matter how "secure" you feel)... 
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No, I'm not actively looking right now. Obviously, if something comes up, I'll take it into a consideration but I'm not looking. I'm happy with what I do, I'm comfortable with the people I work with, the money is OK, the benefits are great, so why spoil a good thing ?
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It does matter.
People, most of them probably, go to their job for a living. But people are also not robots, or at least they shouldn't strive to.
SkyWalker
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"Rock solid: they cannot do without me".
To me becoming indispensable is not "securing job".
A company cannot survive for a long in such situations. (imaging an "indispensable guy" that stays ill for some time ... may the entire company fail !)
Rock solid to me should mean that the company is solid, running a business that has a good market, and that is it based on real needs.
2 bugs found.
> recompile ...
65534 bugs found.
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You're absolutely right! Does knowledge management ring any bell?
SkyWalker
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This is first time I joined an internal department(I think this explain itself).
I don't want to be here anymore.
Reasons:
Incompetent team.
No challenging work.
The department is always under fire (They created huge crap-in past few years- now the priority is to keep it working some how )
Feel inferior (as the employees in other departments doing same work get more facilities)
No project planing.
Just unreasonable deadlines (just 4 reports are to be made, "you can finish them till evening")
No training ( although they talk about it every time but it never happens)
SRS, RA ,SDLC - What are they?
and lots of other crap.
I am tired in just 5 months of staying here and cant handle this anymore.
It is Good to be Important but!
it is more Important to be Good
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just go ahead and you will acquire all that you want ...fight..
je t'aime...Ma mère,mon père,Ma soeur...et mon futur.
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That "but" says more that you've done 
SkyWalker
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I been with the same company for over 19 years of the original 150 employs
There are now 9 left. You only as good as you current knowledge. You may be irreplaceable to the company but is your company irreplaceable to you clients.
It also help if you can spell ? laurel's != Laura’s 
modified on Friday, September 12, 2008 2:21 AM
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I try very hard to never sit on my Laura. She hates it!
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Well, considering I've spent about 5 hours in the office* in the past month and the boss is still happy with my output... pretty secure.
But then again; anything can happen and it usually does. Or as Mr. Pratchett says; 1 in a million chances happen 9 times out of 10.
* I have a newborn in the house...
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First, no, I dont feel any secure about my current job and might be in the street in two months
The reason is that I'm working with a UN agency "UNDP" that has short term service contracts!
Changing the subject, it would be helpful if jobs can be sorted according to some criteria like those who sponsor visa or job relocation.. Just a suggestion!
All generalizations are wrong, including this one!
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(O.o)
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Reasonably secure but I've been here nearly 30 years and it's all getting a bit beyond me ! The whizz kids are young enough to be my grandkids. We have job evaluation looming too........ Hopefully I can get out in a few years and hope there's something left in the pension pot for me
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Reasonably to very secure
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I work for a Telco that has just seen some major industrial action, and which is about to lose its monopoly position in this market. My position is only as secure as that of the entire company. If the company wants to progress (in spite of everything) I'd be key to that change, if they just want to 'consolidate' then I'd be superfluous. It's an interesting situation.
However, I've also worked for a company that had a policy that if you were the only person who knew your particular job and you were absolutely essential to keep things running - then you were automatically fired. Lot's of interesting and very valid reasoning behind this.
I just love Koalas - they go great with bacon.
I am convinced that lobotomising users will make little to no difference.
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Lee Humphries wrote: if you were the only person who knew your particular job and you were absolutely essential to keep things running - then you were automatically fired. Lot's of interesting and very valid reasoning behind this.
Umm...do you know any of this valid reasoning? Sounds crazy to me. I'd rectify the situation by either hiring others or training existing employees as backups. Then maybe simulating some disaster situations and seeing if the backup employees can handle it, or packing the expert of on holiday for a few weeks and seeing how the backups cope.
Simon
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Take the situation where people are avoiding letting others in on their "trade secrets". The primary reasoning was that just one person, in spite of all declarations to the contrary, would not be bringing in too much revenue or present too much of a business risk if lost. Also it would be hard to argue that they were genuinely core to the business. Another reasoning was that it was inappropriate for the business to be "held to ransom" by one person.
Just a few reasons, but there were others.
I am convinced that lobotomising users will make little to no difference.
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You know, some people are just a solo developer.
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.
In the movie "The Matrix", Chuck Norris is the Matrix. If you pay close attention in the green "falling code" scenes, you can make out the faint texture of his beard.
Chuck Norris actually owns IBM. It was an extremely hostile takeover.
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Yeah and some of us wish we still were 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I don't have a lot of experience on this topic, let alone any, but I'll say that if you think you can make it as a solo developer, and you actually want to make a difference to your income then I would say go for it, I mean it's going to be hard work at first, but as soon as you have a good product out there that is selling then you have made it.
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