Actually, it IS workable. Check out the link.

I agree. Maybe these days a 10-12% raise is all you can expect---if you are going to a similar job. That's not the case here. There should be a larger increase for the step up to director. 10-12% is a pittance for the risk and chaos of changing jobs, especially if the other job doesn't reach out and grab you. They probably think you are an amazing bargain at that salary.

It sounds like the new job is further away from your interests, compare:
"lead software engineer in a really fun company" vs.
"software is not what this company does primarily; ... the appreciation level would be much lower than my current position"
Faint praise for the other job.

Do you really want to be a director? With 'regulatory guidelines'? I'm strongly biased toward small companies, you can probably tell.

Steve

Sheffield is excellent. Very under appreciated.

Does Dextr come in metric?
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still fond of feet, inches and fortnights

I use a hammer and punch.

I'm pretty amazed at some of the advice. Not to pick on anyone, but Ringworld for an 8 year old?

Comic books first, or compilations of them. The Avengers come to mind. I liked the idea of the Hobbit too. If he likes that, LOTR will follow.

Heinlein has lots of good, juvenile oriented books. Charles Sheffield has some also, Putting Up Roots, Higher Education, The Billion Dollar Boy, The Cyborg from Earth. He has lots of great adult SF as well, not nearly as well known as he should be.

Definitely talk to your local librarian.

Steve

You clearly aren't familiar with how dry this area of Colorado is. The fires are a lot more extreme than you are imagining.

Just assume you've used Google to read about software defined radio and aren't interested.

It's hard to get rid of the people, unfortunately.
Does one give a baby sharp knives to play with?

I don't think the engineer is working with musicians.

I agree. I've worked with a couple of people who believed more in their cause and its evangelism than doing their job. This sort of behavior isn't appropriate at work, especially in a manager position.

I like the Wiki idea, but it could be expanded. You can really learn something when you teach it. As you provide bits of support to the new person, make them add the info to the Wiki. Then the question shouldn't come up again.

I ended up in test engineering at a small manufacturer due to the former person getting seriously ill. When I finally moved back to design, I kept getting calls from the new test engineer and from test operators (who knew which person had the answer). One day I was out. I came back to a pile of messages, started digging through them. Lo and behold, most of them had been solved in my absence! Be helpful and give support, but don't make it too easy.

I was interested in this too. Not that I read the actual paper, but why do they think telomerase is the cause of longer life in the asexual worms? Aren't the sexual worms a counterexample?

If you think they're dim, buy a brighter bulb. Dim isn't the fault of the bulb technology.
You can even get different color temperatures. The 5000K ones are pretty nice.

No wonder he doesn't think college is useful with degrees like that!