With [reasons deleted] I thought I'd put together my day job priorities. These include both aspects of a workplace environment and personal career goals. The vast majority of these conditions exist in my job at the moment.
At my ideal job I would...
- work with a talented team in an open office (not cube farm) environment that encourages cross-pollination of ideas between a variety of roles.
- be constantly learning, thinking and challenged.
- work on projects that are important, projects that accomplish goals and serve needs.
- have a to-do list that is long enough that I'm always busy (with a reasonable ebb and flow to the stress level).
- conduct user testing, or at least work on interfaces where user feedback is received and valued.
- spend more time working with people on problems than dealing with problem people. On the same note, I would spend more time being productive than in meetings.
- have influence on internal workflows, be able to change a process if it is clearly causing problems and be able to experiment with alternative ways of doing the job.
- solve problems creatively, not just fulfill requirements.
- be involved with requirements on at least a consulting level.
- invent new products.
- work on interfaces in variety of media.
- both design (wireframes, photoshop mockups, etc.) and code (front end: html, css, dom scripting).
What other things make a job or workplace environment really great?
2 comments:
As usual, linking to an article that I haven't read yet, but think might be relevant. This article is about what I was thinking when I made my second to last post above, about wanting to create interfaces in different media: Digital Convergence: Insight into the future of Web design
Also keep in mind that you want a position that you can grow in. You may not "gripe" about it yet, but it would suck to be stuck in Doug's position where you can't be challenged and grow...
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