This Business and Moment...

randomshenans said:
I've been building out the pharma shipping tool, which was something that I said that my employer should have built years ago, when I was on that project, but instead they went with a big company off the shelf but customized to their needs. Who then of course failed after spending 6m of their money.
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What are you coding this tool in?

Dropping 6M and getting nothing is shocking. This would have been enough to build it in house.
 
radderfire said:
Dropping 6M and getting nothing is shocking. This would have been enough to build it in house.
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haha yea, it really is... they strung them out 3yrs for that, too. Stupid thing with them, is that they always choose to "buy" because they think it will be more scalable and less technical debt, but really they're just idiots.

We're building it on a MS power apps base tbf. Which allows us to easily integrate with all their stuff and generate customs documents needed, based on whatever material type they are shipping. It's a really nice solution we've created to be fair. Also means you can easily deploy it to all people as well and even run it through everyone's Teams if needed.

Meeting my old recruitment agency again soon, too. Met with one of the owners last week and they want to do some stuff better than keyword searching and I was like oo I think we could build something really interesting for that. So that's coming up, too. We'll chuck something like that into the mix.

Over beers we also chatted about a really simple solution for product management. As simple as like a trello in terms of it's usability and simplicity, but covers things like capacity / resource / skill management, so you can see what things you'd lack / need / etc by moving resources around in product teams, or deciding to do X thing over Y.
Their background is building project management solutions, but these days there is so much product stuff, and the one who sold his company can't release a project management product until Dec 2025, but nothing about product related ones ha

I have a ton of stuff being juggled at the moment, but as long as I can do it all while I'm on the move and wherever I am at that time, I really don't mind. I love this stuff.
 
Reminds me of years ago when I roughed up a fully functional proof of concept in an afternoon of a way to interface between two ancient systems (one of them using COBOL) where I was working, £1.6m later (albeit part of a bigger project so likely only 100-200K spent on this bit) they had a far buggier, less functional piece of software which took another 5 years to improve to the level of what I'd strung together in an afternoon...
 
Felon said:
Anyone here ever get so ******* off with their job that they just quit, regardless of whether they had anything else or not?
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Yes. It has worked out fine so far from a mental health / short term earnings perspective (i.e. all the jobs I've had since have been less stress and more money). Whether it was the best thing for long term career prospects remains to be seen, as I've had less seniority which (understandably) makes it look like my career has plateaued and hence harder to get considered for the sort of roles I should probably be doing.

In some ways it's annoying because the company overall was pretty good, just they didn't adapt the org structure enough for the changing nature of my work domain. They've recently done that but it came a couple of years too late for me, basically I was doing the job of 2-3 people (maybe more like 4-5 comparing to how my current employer which is very similar has structured things) and there's only so long I can work relentlessly at 110% every single day just to be treading water and doing an 'average' job of things when I know I could do a good job of them if I had more time.
 
randomshenans said:
We're building it on a MS power apps base tbf. Which allows us to easily integrate with all their stuff and generate customs documents needed, based on whatever material type they are shipping. It's a really nice solution we've created to be fair. Also means you can easily deploy it to all people as well and even run it through everyone's Teams if needed.
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Ahh MS Power* - it's like post-modern excel (forms) and VisualBasic (power automate) :D I had the pleasure of designer in the last role I assume you're using Studio instead!

At the moment I'm still in the 'post' mental stage and my mind is not open enough to come up with new ideas. I had a look at some AWS training but I find AWS/coding etc itself rather off putting. My days of details have long gone I feel. I get more of a kick out of delivering something, building the product value prop and doing all the work that the devs don't see.
 
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Job applications thick and fast this morning - 5 applications already as I've been up since before 6am.

I believe the Mrs has plans for me as a gardener..
 
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NickK said:
Ahh MS Power* - it's like post-modern excel (forms) and VisualBasic (power automate) :D I had the pleasure of designer in the last role I assume you're using Studio instead!

At the moment I'm still in the 'post' mental stage and mind is not open enough to come up with new ideas. I had a look at some AWS training but I find AWS/coding etc itself rather off putting. My days of details have long gone I feel. I get more of a kick out of delivering something, building the product value
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Power apps are like a pale shadow of the power of VBA object model but less functionality and more niche. Further removed from the (power user) and obscure enough to need a developer but less appealing to developers.
 
Background checks submitted and start date penciled in for 1st October... I finish up gardening leave on the 30th so zero break in terms of income but I've effectively not been working since June so I am really eager to get cracking. Starting 1st day of Q2 so neat and tidy from a sales comp perspective.
 
Well it's raining and not a gardening day ;) (well not laying concrete or tiles to walls) so I feel a LinkedIn article today, prompted by my old Chief Arch who now is the CTO for the Cabinet. It won't be ground breaking but it will get me thinking critically.
 
Been offered a role back in the education sector as a Systems Accountant but not sure if it makes sense since it’ll mean a driving commute again and the money is no better. Should be less hours though, with more holiday and a better pension. Swings and roundabouts to get away from the nonsense I have to do at the moment.
 
I see Indeed has caused a bit of a PR disaster by labelling 40-50 year olds in the twilight of their careers and 50+ as in decline. It's stereotyping idiocy that Forbes has pointed out very publicly.
 
On the flip side, a couple of weeks ago I had 9x interviews with a very special firm, got the feedback as being 'very positive' late on Wednesday, 3x positions up for grabs, so hoping to get it put to bed this week.... (my god I'm hoping....).

Some other good options out there...

Since I moved back to the UK I have not been able to find my feet, trying to get back on the horse properly...
 
Felon said:
On the flip side, a couple of weeks ago I had 9x interviews with a very special firm, got the feedback as being 'very positive' late on Wednesday, 3x positions up for grabs, so hoping to get it put to bed this week.... (my god I'm hoping....).

Some other good options out there...

Since I moved back to the UK I have not been able to find my feet, trying to get back on the horse properly...
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That's good when we have so many saying the job market is rubbish at the moment.
 
Had a message from one of my ex-colleagues.. seems he's not banking on having a job after the end of the year. Ahh well..

Actually felt like I've mentally recovered from the previous role both in terms of confidence and motivation.

The job market is slow but there are roles, just hotly contested. I remember one job I had 7 interviews for and ended up getting it.
 
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