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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? I love your variation to the question! I am currently in library school because I REALLY want to be a digital archivist! Like one of our other responses, I've done a lot of other things and discovered what I WANT to do along the way. Once upon a time, I wanted to own and run a gymnastics business. Been there, done that, and did it well. Time to respond to my love of history, books, and this strange desire to play with the newest technologies I can get my hands on. Nicole On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM, MJ Ray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. > > I answered part of this a while ago: > http://www.news.software.coop/hi-why-are-you-doing/1000/ > > The tl;dr is "to provide computer-related services..." and I do that > in a co-op so that we get hired for those services, not for our flesh > and time. ;-) > > Regards, > -- > MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. > http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. > In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html > Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha >