> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > > How do you handle 'vacation'[1] coverage in a solo shop?
This is something I do currently, and I'm really very pleased with the results: Whenever possible, don't work solo. Hire yourself part-time, and hire a part-time partner as well. The company gains redundancy in its employees, and you gain redundancy in your employment. (You both get a part-time somewhere else too.) You get a partner to bounce ideas off of, and to discuss things with. A second brain and a second pair of eyes is always good. You cross-pollenate. Because what you learn and develop at your other location, you will bring back and share here. And so will the other person. You each become more effective individually than you otherwise were going to be, and you gain redundancy as well. It's simply a big win in every way. > [1] "vacation" sounds so much nicer than "hit by a bus", don't you think? I prefer "hit the lottery or a bus." ;-) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
