Timeline for How can we recruit and retain more talent?
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| Jun 18, 2014 at 9:04 | comment | added | the-wabbit | This reads very much like you are no longer participating not only because you lack the time to do so but also because the scope of your work has changed considerably and has outgrown the scope of Server Fault. As you noted yourself, being a technical lead in an international consultancy is an entirely different job than being a university sysadmin. I believe it is not so much about Server Fault changing but more about its senior users changing and expecting the site to follow - which is not happening. | |
| Jun 16, 2014 at 6:01 | comment | added | Vinícius Ferrão | This is sad. Really. I always want to listen to @MDMarra opinion when I came across an Active Directory problem. I'm not kidding. I'm really pleased with all the knowledge I've got with your replies, and because of them I've came across your blog. Take this as an incentive to stay here at Srvflt! | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | Kyle Brandt | @MDMarra: I think it does, thanks for taking the time to respond | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 12:40 | comment | added | MDMarra | And in top of that, I learned an awful lot from reading and participating in chat. But more importantly, all of these people taught me how to help myself, which is the most important skill. Now, I'm the technical lead at a Microsoft gold partner with 6 engineers working for me. My team and I are regularly brought in to consult for businesses grossing $1bn+ with presences across the world. So in a few short years, I've made gigantic strides in my career in no small part to the help from folks here. I suppose that's why I still drop by once a day, though I rarely answer. Hope that helps. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 12:37 | comment | added | MDMarra | @Kyle when I joined SF 5 years ago, I was a green junior level sysadmin at a mid-sized university. Evan Anderson' early answers showed me how to put a compelling argument into writing. Folks like Chopper talked about challenges in gigantic environments that I didn't even know existed. Ed White gave valuable insight into how to accelerate career advancement. More experienced users like voretaq7 and many others hammered home that published best practices are there for a reason, and you don't understand every edge case that the vendor has taken into account. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 12:31 | comment | added | Kyle Brandt | @MDMarra: Could you expand on "which is unfortunate since it gave me such a valuable kickstart to my career.". In particular, I'm curious how it gave you that kickstart, and what your general self assessment of your skills were at the time of your starting at SF, and at the time of starting to becoming inactive. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | pauska | This is a bad spiral.. I'm participating less in chat than before because I have less people to talk to about the specific stuff i work with. You leave, then I leave, then maybe someone else leaves because we leaved, and so on.. It's come to the point where I would actually consider paying some dollars a month if I could get my own, custom-made frontpage that only shows the tags I want... | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 3:09 | comment | added | Andrew B | Regardless of one's immediate interest level, SF is still a great place to add missing entries to Google Runbook when a search fails you. It's the one case where our high page rankings give something back. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 21:47 | comment | added | ewwhite | :( sniffles. I miss you :( | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 21:34 | comment | added | MDMarra | The problem with review queues is that I'm already annoyed and feel that I'm wasting my time with the garbage that I see on the main site. Community moderated queues mean that I would be actively seeking out low quality content with my time rather than answering questions. No thanks :) | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 20:47 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | very intriguing story. I've only frequented chat for a few months now and I do notice your presence dwindling. I'd like to know your thoughts on this to help curb what happened to you from happening to others. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 20:11 | history | answered | MDMarra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |