I totally agree with Jarod. The more different jobs you've held in the
software world, the more "skin in the game" you are perceived to have. I had
several years in tech writing and QA which helped me to communicate
successfully with just about anyone on the team and provided me with a lot
of experience with good and bad software interfaces, great and not-so-great
developers (though mostly great ones, thankfully!), etc. And yes, some
companies tend to pigeonhole you based on your domain expertise, so you will
probably end up having to move to another company at some point to get into
your desired position.
Courtney
2007/10/4, Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Dan & All:
>
> > I actually disagree with this advice. Nearly every time I changed
> > focus in my career (which was fairly often in the 1990s), I had to
> > change companies to do it. Companies have a tendency to pigeonhole
> > you ("You can't do X, you're Y!"), whereas another company will hire
> > you as an X person much more easily. At least, that has always been
> > my experience.
> Though this is not the right way, but nearly all the managers tend to
> do like this, if you are expert of some domain, most of the case,
> you'll be kept on the same position for longer time than one can
> expect.
> But at the same time, different work really help, one one case, if
> work as a development engineer and manager, and qa engineer and
> manager, then turn to ixd, the difficulties of communication becomes
> less than the guys who come from pure design domain. Empathy with
> the user as well as developer are equally important.
>
> Cheers
> -- Jarod
>
> --
> IxD for better life style.
>
> http://jarodtang.blogspot.com
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