If I may ask, why do you want to work for yourself? In many cases, keeping a well-paid job is just as good as (if not better than) being self-employed.
Yeah, I've worked for myself for about 5 years and even had people under me at some points. It's not as great as it sounds.
If you do it wrong, you end up with a job that you can't quit no matter how bad it gets. Your bosses are basically your clients/customers, and they are often less understanding than a full time boss.
I'd prefer to work full time, but there's not a lot of jobs here with fair working conditions - salary, vacation time, work conditions. I'm actually in the process of helping someone build a startup, just so that I could customize my own full time job.
Near Kuala Lumpur. As far as the tech scene goes, I think it's still one of the best in the region, around top 5 after Singapore, Jakarta, parts of Vietnam.
There's a few unicorns in the area, but unlike Silicon Valley, it seems they grew fat and complacent. There are smart people, but not as skilled as they could be. Pay doesn't go so high and so there's no incentive to get much better.
I want to be a development team member (scrum terminology).
I have a lot of random skills in different areas, being a developer, an agile coach and in another life a designer.
I just want to work on a team and do whatever is necessary to make the product a success. I don't want to be shoehorned into a particular role and I want to keep learning new and different things.
It wouldn't be a specific title or a company, but a certain type.
Workplaces should be a brotherhood of pain. Where people unite for a common cause, that matters more than their families, their salaries, their own individual lives. Very few companies are this, especially larger ones.
There shouldn't be any team-building exercises - the activity of uniting a team towards a common cause should be team-building enough. People of different personalities may mix, but put their differences aside for the cause.
Everyone contributes what they can, and takes what they need. Those who have contributed more are respected more.
Hierarchy wouldn't matter. No talk of seniority. Organization charts are still important, as distribution of responsibilities. But someone at the bottom of the chart, or in another department should be able to casually talk to someone else at the side of the chart.
There isn't some big shot manager out there who does nothing but has that position due to seniority. There isn't this notion of passing around blame. KPIs may or may not be there, but they are properly engineered. People sincerely care for others, let them take care of their well-being. It's recognized that some people simply cannot contribute as much because they're fighting their own battles outside work. Things like sick leave and vacation leave are not rigid.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 29.2 ms ] threadIf you do it wrong, you end up with a job that you can't quit no matter how bad it gets. Your bosses are basically your clients/customers, and they are often less understanding than a full time boss.
I'd prefer to work full time, but there's not a lot of jobs here with fair working conditions - salary, vacation time, work conditions. I'm actually in the process of helping someone build a startup, just so that I could customize my own full time job.
There's a few unicorns in the area, but unlike Silicon Valley, it seems they grew fat and complacent. There are smart people, but not as skilled as they could be. Pay doesn't go so high and so there's no incentive to get much better.
I have a lot of random skills in different areas, being a developer, an agile coach and in another life a designer.
I just want to work on a team and do whatever is necessary to make the product a success. I don't want to be shoehorned into a particular role and I want to keep learning new and different things.
Workplaces should be a brotherhood of pain. Where people unite for a common cause, that matters more than their families, their salaries, their own individual lives. Very few companies are this, especially larger ones.
There shouldn't be any team-building exercises - the activity of uniting a team towards a common cause should be team-building enough. People of different personalities may mix, but put their differences aside for the cause.
Everyone contributes what they can, and takes what they need. Those who have contributed more are respected more.
Hierarchy wouldn't matter. No talk of seniority. Organization charts are still important, as distribution of responsibilities. But someone at the bottom of the chart, or in another department should be able to casually talk to someone else at the side of the chart.
There isn't some big shot manager out there who does nothing but has that position due to seniority. There isn't this notion of passing around blame. KPIs may or may not be there, but they are properly engineered. People sincerely care for others, let them take care of their well-being. It's recognized that some people simply cannot contribute as much because they're fighting their own battles outside work. Things like sick leave and vacation leave are not rigid.