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I think a great question would be: what would you REALLY like to be doing? And I'm meaning that professionally, not "I'd rather be sailing/sleeping/drinking a beer." Pretend that the daily niggling bits of the job are gone and money is no object -- what would you do? kc Quoting Matt McCollow <[log in to unmask]>: > "Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can > contrive is why not?" - David Foster Wallace > > I do what I do because I like learning how things work, taking > things apart and seeing what makes them tick. I like taking an idea > I have and making something with it, and I like taking things that > are broken and making them work. I think if I hadn't gone down the > developer path, I might have liked to be a mechanic. > > Matt McCollow > Web Developer > Mills Library, McMaster University > > On 2011-09-28, at 1:44 PM, Eric Hellman wrote: > >> I think it's a good question, worth asking about *every* dev >> position being hired for. I would be interested to hear an answer >> from others on the list. In fact, I think the price of putting a >> position announcement on Code4lib should be a willingness to answer >> "why?". And "why not?" is a pretty pathetic answer. >> >> For me, I'm doing what I'm doing because I think it's important and >> because no one else is doing it. I hope there are many other with a >> similar answer. >> >> Eric > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet