April 2008 Archives

Yako Fain has recently published his e-book "Enterprise Software Without the BS" on his blog. He touches the following subjects (from his blog):

• Why some people are more successful than others.
• In which ways are some people a little "better" than others?  
• Why people  fail job interviews?
• Will IT outsourcing hurt your career?
• What's a reasonable salary for a person with YOUR skills?
• Are there underpaid or overpaid people?
• How often should you change  employers?
• Do you even want to have an employer or would you rather work as an IT contractor?
• Do you want your child to be a programmer?
• How to publish your book?
• Me coming to America.
• What's one of the main motivations of innovations in the corporate world?

"This e-book won't give you the answers to all your career questions, but it summarizes my observations formed during my 25+ years of wearing different hats in the Enterprise IT. The odds are that you will not agree with some of my observations, or find some of them cynical or even insulting. But this is how I see things today, in 2008, in the greater New York metropolitan area."

I haven't had the time yet to read it so I can't swear about it's content. But the opinions I've read have been quite glorious.

Continue to the blog post or download the PDF