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my bosses. Most of them were guys I learnt a lot from. Oh, I think I learnt a lot from all of them, but some of them were rather counterexamples to what I wanted to be.

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Unexpected situations just happen. Then it’s often time of changes. A manager is leaving. A guru developer is changing his division (or job). Management at last comes with idea that they should build a quality assurance team (no kidding here). Women go to maternity leave. There’s some kind of reorganization. Everything is hard to predict. Everything creates a chance for some people. That’s not always a chance for you of course, but you should think fast and act fast if you can be engaged.

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I love Pepsi. It’s that slightly sweeter taste and the all-American logo combined with the non-conformist statement that, well, it’s not Coke.Yet Pepsi has been consistently #2, and there’s nothing wrong with being #2 if that’s your goal. But Pepsi’s goal is to be the #1 preferred brand (notice I didn’t say ‘taste’ – we all took the Pepsi taste test and they’re still #2) with members of the eponymously titled Pepsi Generation – an age group that they seemingly stretch from year to year.As of late, Pepsi has employed Pop-Culture icons to represent their brand : Britney, Big n’ Rich, AROD and Jeff Gordon to name a few. Yet none of them seem to capture Coke’s ageless, timeless wave of emotion brought on by a 6 year-old boy and Mean Joe Green. That commercial touched all of our senses; the agony of defeat, a fan’s elation with their idol, a friendship being forged between generations and a refreshing beverage that made everything ok. Coke continues to focus on the experience, while Pepsi focuses on taste.Which is why I cringe every time I go to a restaurant that only carries Pepsi products; Sure, I’m happy, but what of those who prefer Coke? The waiter/waitress always asks if you

On the beginning a little disclaimer -- it’ll be neither a recipe for dummies nor extract from some wise book about self-management. It’ll be rather a small set of advices learnt based on my experience and observations. No theory -- just practice.

Know where you’re going

First, you have to know generally where you’re heading to -- what you want to do in the long run. You don’t have to be very specific here -- no one expects you’ll exactly know your occupation in the 20-year perspective. However, thing I see so often is young developer, who answers "coding -- that’s what I want to do, never thought about something different". OK, he’ll make his way through internship, wow-I’m-learning-how-to-work-in-the-team, full blown developer, senior developer, local guru (if he’s lucky). It’ll take him 10 years. Maybe 15. And then what?

Yes, you can say that being 25 you don’t need to think what you’ll be doing when you’ll be 40. Just remember that transition to another role probably requires quite different set of skills you have to develop. It doesn’t take a week to achieve that.

How can I expect that graduate would know what he exactly wants to do? I don’t expect that. A general direction is enough and you can change it later if you feel like it. When I was starting my first job in the IT I wanted to become a designer or something. That’s enough. I knew that life doesn’t end up with being tester or even developer; however I knew also that’s a long way to go.

Know your next step

If I had to choose only one advice it’d be the one. If you know generally where you’re heading to, you also need to know where to turn on nearest crossroads. Without that, you’ll end up frustrated, struggling to achieve something and having no clue how to do that.

It’s not as hard as it looks like. In bigger organizations there’re usually some career paths, so unless you don’t know where you are going (start reading from the beginning) or where you currently are (stop reading that -- it won’t help you anyway) it’s rather easy to plan the next step. In small organizations it’s a bit trickier but also easier. No formal paths, so everything is in your hands. With a bit of common sense it won’t be hard to find out what’s in your range.

Look at me -- when I started my job as a tester, I knew the next step will be development. Being the developer I wanted to become a designer. This part for me is a bit weird, because it went a bit different way. However there was some time when I was fulfilling a designer role (primary goal achieved). Meanwhile I changed my general goal; otherwise I wouldn’t know my next step. I decided I want to manage team developing software -- to be a project manager/program manager -- depending on terminology.

OK, coming back to the next step I had to make -- it was managing a team to learn some management skills. I became manager of quality assurance team. Then the next step was to build my empire... er... team to prepare myself to become the full blown program manager. Now I lead a technical team (covering development, implementations, project management and quality assurance) so I think I made it. It’s much easier when you know where to turn on the crossroads.

Learn, learn, learn

Now, when you know what should be your next occupation you need to prepare yourself to suit to the role. When you’re a developer and struggling to be a designer -- look how designers work. What in your and others’ opinion they do good and where they are failures. You have a comfort to be a recipient of their work -- exploit that. Want to be a manger? Look at your boss. Think how her actions affect you. It’ll be very useful when you at last become a manager.

When you know your next preferred position (and now you know it, right?), locate your teachers (those who fulfill role you want to have) and learn from them. Evaluate them -- who perform well and who’s opposite. Remember you can learn from both.

If it just so happens your boss is your guru here you’re lucky. I have to admit I was and I still am very lucky with my bosses. Most of them were guys I learnt a lot from. Oh, I think I learnt a lot from all of them, but some of them were rather counterexamples to what I wanted to be.

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role probably requires quite different set of skills you have to develop. It doesn’t take a week to achieve that.

Know your next step

Learn, learn, learn

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Do you have clients that take up to 60 days to pay their accounts receivable? Waiting months to get paid for your invoices can wreak havoc in your company’s cash flow, especially if you have to meet payroll, pay suppliers and pay rent. But what happens if your business can’t wait to get paid because it must meet its obligations?One solution to this problem has been gaining popularity recently. It’s called accounts receivable factoring and it allows you to turn your slow paying receivables into cash, almost immediately. It works by selling your receivables to a factoring company, who in turn, pays you on the spot. This provides you with the necessary cash flow to pay suppliers, rent and salaries.Selling your receivables to a factoring company is relatively simple. It can be done with a 3-step process:You deliver goods/services and issue an invoiceYou sell the invoice to the factoring company who advances the first installment you up to 90% for them. The average advance is 80%.Once your client pays the invoice, the factoring company rebates the remaining installment, less a small fee (installment #2)As opposed to other financing products, ac

eading that -- it won’t help you anyway) it’s rather easy to plan the next step. In small organizations it’s a bit trickier but also easier. No formal paths, so everything is in your hands. With a bit of common sense it won’t be hard to find out what’s in your range.

Learn, learn, learn

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Of course my wife said I didn't know what I was doing and my friends also were skeptical and thought that I was completely wasting my time.Yet I was on a mission and determined to build a business and make it a success and build it on my own. Sure I wanted to have the extra cash rolling in, but money wasn't the only reason I decided to start. I simply couldn't stomach the idea of working for someone else for the rest of my life in a job that I hated.So I said who cares what other people think and I began working part time out of my basement. I chose affiliate programs on the internet because I heard you could start with little capital or investment.And as you'll see below, it wasn't long before I realized that I'd made the right decision to start a business.Cash By EmailI started with an initial investment of $500 and advertising for another $100. In less than 3 months, I was able to quit my day job and was taking in up to $5000 per week...More that $200,000 A Year!.Some days the cash would pour into my email so quick, that I had to get my wife involved as my assistant to keep track of everything coming into the bank account.By this time, my wife had alr

hnical team (covering development, implementations, project management and quality assurance) so I think I made it. It’s much easier when you know where to turn on the crossroads.

Learn, learn, learn

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The development of corporations has turned out to be a great boon for American as well as world economy. Basically a corporation is understood as a lawful body that entitles a group of people to act as unit or an individual. But since past few decades a new dimension is given to the term corporation. Corporation now refers to both profit and non-profit businesses that are identified or classified according to their tax structure. Corporations are taxed differently, not like normal businesses. On the basis of taxation, corporations are divided into two categories- C- corporations and S-corporations.C-corporations are those that are required to pay income taxes and to kill or finish the deductions on dividends paid to stockholders. C-corporations comprises of the companies that are publicly traded on stock market. The C-corporations are quite common and dominant nowadays. While small businesses and businesses with sole proprietors fall in the S-corporations category. The S-corporations do not pay any corporate taxes. Here all the gains and losses so incurred are directly passed to the private stockholders who then adjust their personal income taxes according to it.The corporations that are l

my bosses. Most of them were guys I learnt a lot from. Oh, I think I learnt a lot from all of them, but some of them were rather counterexamples to what I wanted to be.

Exploit unexpected situations

I became a lead tester after a short rather informal chat with my boss while electricity was out and it was hard to do anything (no laptop then). I was done with my development work and I was testing other’s programmer code submitting tons of bugs (the code was from "tester’s dream" category). A manager asked me if I want to become a test leader. He didn’t think I could agree. Nor did I. But after a quarter of thinking I told him, that if he’d been serious I was ready to try.

Some time later I was asked if I take over the support team, after its former manager was dismissed. That was nothing what I could find on my roadmap. I was scared that I’d land there for a long time and no one would take me to project management from there. After a day I decided to take the job. It came out I couldn’t be more wrong with my fears. I learnt a lot about managing bigger teams and now I consider my experience from the support team, especially working with our enemies... I mean customers, as essential for my further career.

Work hard wherever you are

As I look at my career I was several times in a situation when my position wasn’t something I really wanted to do. Being a tester for the first time is good example here, managing support team is another. It’s so easy just to do your tasks and think how nice it would be if you were developer/project manager/whoever you wanted to. Don’t let you think like that. Do your best wherever you are. It pays off.

When I started my first job in the IT I was one of four testers in the group. We all were told that it’s just trial and in a half of the year chances are that half of us would become developers. I’m sure I wasn’t the best developer of the group, but I was the first who was promoted. Why? For some time I used to think it was like reward for being the best tester in the group. Now I think managers just looked at my attitude and approach to tasks predicting they wouldn’t change on developer’s chair.

Similar situation was with me being the support team manager. I did my best to put in order processes team was responsible for. I think I was successful, because some of our implementations were copied in other support team. It wasn’t a task I enjoyed much, but I took it ambitiously.

Remember you’re often judged not by your potential performance in a new environment, but by your current performance with your soft skills as essentials. If you’re a quick learner no matter if you’re a tester or a developer -- it’ll be one of your strengths. You’re dedicated? Cool. It’ll pay off no matter what’s your position.

One thing more here. If you don’t feel like performing well on a new position -- don’t take it. But don’t cry over lost chances either.

Don’t stick to a single company

Don’t treat that as an advice to change a company. Estimate your chances wherever you are. I was never in a company which totally limited my options so that one is rather based on others’ experience. For example I was talking with recently my former subordinate. When we were working together he was a tester and struggled to be a developer. He didn’t want to wait for his chance and left. I didn’t hold a grudge against him then, what more, I think in a short perspective he did right. However he ended up in a company where there are hundreds of developers and half of them want to be managers. He’s the one of them. If I had to estimate his chances... hm... I wouldn’t wait there either. I’d look for a job where there’re any chances to be promoted.

Funny thing is that if he didn’t leave the company we worked for back then, he’d be now at least a junior manager with no doubt. He’d become a developer maybe a half a year later, but if his direction was to go to management he made a wrong decision quitting. And he makes another wrong decision not quitting now. It’s always a bit vague, but when you look at a company think about long perspective, not just the next step.

No panacea

Don’t treat above advices like golden rules, which make you a ruler of the world. None of them is a single killer feature, which will guarantee you a success. Bah, gathering all of them doesn’t guarantee it either. There’s no universal solution. Above advices can definitely help you, but it’s all in you own hands.

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