Hear, hear! I am happy to announce the publication of my latest nonfiction, tech-related book. It comes with a snarky title How to Make Your Career Suck Less. Or, in other words, A Guide to a Less Painful IT Existence. This book is a culmination of some twenty years of my fairly successful work in the tech industry, where I’ve faced many an absurd situation, hordes of yesmen, tons of bureaucracy, and heaps of nonsense. And I bet, if you work in the tech space, you’ve experienced it all, too.
Hello hello there, dear readers. Today, I have something rather neat to show you. Fresh off the press, a brand new cover design for my upcoming career-focused book, apty titled How to Make Your Career Suck Less. The anti-hero book has an anti-hero cover. Cheeky, in your face, all that.
Once upon a time, you were young, you had dreams, hopes, high ambitions. You wanted a career in tech, you wanted to make a difference. You thought that you could achieve it all by being a team player, listening to your manager, hunkering down, working hard … Oh you sweet summer child.
Image taken from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 International.
How to Make Your Career Suck Less is my upcoming anti-hero book slash guide that aims to provide the reader – the disenchanted reader, the disillusioned techie, YOU – with practical tips and tricks, honest down-to-earth advice, and tangible suggestions on how to navigate the perilious waters of the modern tech world.
In this book, I strive to answer questions, dilemmas and conundra like how to handle micro-managers, how to create your first open-source project, your first conference, your first big project, how to write a practical and useful CV, and then some. What to do, and what not to do. How to be sarcastic, a dinosaur, and yet happy and successful.
As always, you’ll get the usual dose of tongue-in-cheek curmudgeony Dedoimedo philosophy, the stuff you’ve learned to (hopefully) love and appreciate over the years. The book should hit the store shelves end of summer, early autumn. If you’d like to be an early reviewer, ping me.
