IMO, that is the difference between research and patient care with the medical center. When it's literally patent's lives on the line, stakes (and the pressure) are a bit higher. I have no idea what it's like since VUMC split from the University.
Kent On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 6:32 PM Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 2:43 PM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Based on my 7 years working for VUMC being a unix/linux sysadmin that > never happened. > > Based on my 4.5 years at CHGR and my 8 months at VICTR I experienced > it multiple times. > > They gave me the dirtiest, most low-end computers of anywhere I've ever > worked. > > I took a significant pay cut to go there, I thought at the time it'd > be cool to work in genetics research. They subtracted 8 years from my > years of experience for not having a proper CS degree, then later > asked me to slow down when I outperformed the other properly trained > developers in my department. I tried to get more money a couple of > times but was denied. I got the standard 2.5% each year, the same > they gave everyone. > > My first grant-based project was scheduled for 11 months, about 150 > form fields spread across 7 or 8 pages. No clue who thought it would > take 11 months but I completed it with about 10 months to spare and > never broke a sweat. I sat there for the next two months waiting to > find out what they wanted me to work on next. I began spending my > days teaching myself Android Java and started launching apps into what > would later become the Google Play Store. > > This same theme repeated itself for several more years until I wanted > more money and so I left. At the time they paid about 50% of what I > can get in the non-academic world. No one in the real world cares > about CS degrees, they only care if you can do the work. I mean, I > get it... when you're in the business of selling quarter of a million > dollar CS degrees you don't want it to get out that people without one > can make money too. > > I only talked to my manager about once every 6 weeks, usually when we > just happened to be walking in from the parking garage at the same > time. Vandy is a great place to work if you don't want to be pushed > too hard. The hard part for me was the boredom and the fake smiles > from people who thought they were working hard. > > My 8 months at VICTR was when I returned as a rehire, to recover from > startup burnout. I had just spent close to 5 years working 60+ hour > weeks as the only developer at a 4-person startup. We had been bought > out recently and I was ready for a break, but I wanted cheap health > insurance. I knew Vandy would be a great place to recover, and it > was. It sucked ironing a shirt every morning, but it was a paid > recovery. > > This was my Vandy experience, I'm sure others vary. > > > -- > Greg Donald > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAO%2BWgCZum7%3DF630jfkOd4kMrFbUwAAba0kKmoLPL_tifijQdoQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC8eSaAPCgVK7qU5zrwsvTMRceYu_6bLC-28Rz9Nrda4nA%40mail.gmail.com.
