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I pick i am ok , every day brings new oppournity to learn , to get progress . The moment i feel am confident in my job security . Thats day my willing to learn will gradually decreases . So i pick i am ok , as it motivates me to learn every day something new
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I wanted to be able to select two responses, "I'm indispensable" and "I'm not confident". Not that I'm truly indispensable, it's just that no one else knows how the systems I'm responsible for have been changed over the last 15 years. This is "normal" where I work. However, it wouldn't take that much time for any programmer with even moderate experience to figure things out, it's just not that complicated.
On the other hand it wouldn't surprise me in the least to show up at work Monday to have the CIO declare that the company was moving all IT operations and work to a company in India.
Yeah, I picked "I'm not confident".
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Current political climate where I'm from is really bad for our economy. Don't know what effects this might have towards the company I work for.
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You can be confident only until you are the source of a profit in a company or an organization.
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Except Exceptional )
Nirav Prabtani
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Unless you work for a company making and selling software, IT is always a cost center.
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Exactly, and actually, it is good for our growth and development.
Nirav Prabtani
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I like my current work place. Nice people to work with ,close to where I live, opposite to city traffic and truck load of responsibility being a small IT team but company is very stingy when it comes to pay scale. I was getting paid almost $20K less then what I can get outside. Recently I got an offer from other firm which was inline with market and I was about to leave but my current employer decided to keep me and offered me the same salary. I guess they wanted to retain me so I should feel secure !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Not a single company I ever worked for (6 companies - 27 years) is in business or under the same name. Is it a statistic or just a coincidence? Guess what happens to employees?
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Once upon a time I had my own business. One day an evil thought crossed my mind. No one is indispensable except me. I felt being the owner no one can get rid of me. On the very next second reality kicked it and I was humiliated by equal and opposite thought. What if business crumples in front of my eyes, am I still indispensable 
I learned a great deal from that experience in turn, I think, it made me better employee and by extension person.
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Mom n' pop shop. I keep threatening (weakly) to quit and go live in a box in some tent city (with a CodeProject app)but keep getting discouraged from mom to do so. 
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i ll join you brother. i can bring the guitar and a hat, those will turn to be more useful than the CodeProject app in a tent city 
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Cool! I play guitar too, and drums so I'll bring the bongos. We'll be the biggest act they ever seen smelled.
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My rule is, "anyone who believes himself to be indispensable should immediately be fired".
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I was once asked why I was so anally retentive about making sure any documentation I was responsible for was up to date; anything that I was responsible for was documented; anything that was unclear was didactically described; ... ad infinitum.
My response: "I'm doing my best to make sure I am eminently dispensable"
And by doing that essentially insured my employment for as long as that company lasted ... I think it was along the lines of "... what are they not telling us? Oh s**t"
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N_tro_P wrote: The industry may be different so technically it is a "career" change, but my skills always carry over.
I always say... the best I learn in college is... how to learn new stuff by myself.
It has saved my ass (and my employer's) in a couple of times
N_tro_P wrote: Yep. You made yourself known to get things done and move on. Some can't do that second part.
I couldn't, but lucky me I eventually learned how to do it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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N_tro_P wrote: the credentials are not about proving what you know, but that you can learn and are willing.
If some HHRR would have applied that, I would have had a different path (although I don't complain, I do like where I am)
N_tro_P wrote: You never stop learning. Ever.
Death is a good brake though  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I should be indispensable, but I am caught up in a massive HR problem. My problem is my boss had been coming on to me and I told her that I wasn't interested and it didn't stop. After a year of this, HR did nothing; so it continued. Eventually, she did get in trouble and suspended, but now she is trying to get me fired. I'm looking for another job, but even in this very good job market, I don't feel it would be a monetary setback for me.
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... because it's my company and I'm the only one in it!
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I am very much afraid, taking my grades into consideration. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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