Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Career

The following post focuses on career in software development because I can not claim experience in any other field to judge.


What is your plans for your career? Do you think that there is a possibility to have a career here in Egypt? I am not talking about having a job but career. Do you have clear plan for what you want to do in the next 10 years? Do you think that you are really growing in your current job? What are you looking for in your job? Do you look for security, salary, benefits, experience?

Questions that should always have some real-time answers for

I was interviewing candidates for the past few days and I think that we are not used to plan for ourlives. While we are studying we have no decision to make except the possibility of
  • Selecting which faculty to join after Secondary School but I think that in most cases the parents' do that
  • For Engineering Students Select the department to study in but it again depends on the score ;-)

    I always think of it as that you are taking a train so you have nothing to do while traveling it but after arriving in your destination you have to select where do you want to go

    In the career case I beleive that there are 4 options:

  • Begining Your own Business
  • Working on a startup and grow with it
  • Doing either of the two above options but with the goal of acquiring experience to join a Big Company as in the next point
  • Joining a big company and grow in it

    What do you think?
  • My Nerd Score

    Today I found an interesting link on Channel9 that links to Test How Nerd are you :-)
    It turned out that:
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