Parent Driven Development

054: How to Manage Your Tech Career With Kids

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Episode 054: How to Manage Your Tech Career With Kids
01:17 How do personal priorities and desired job circumstances change?
  • Flexibility + time off
  • Managing parents during emergencies
  • Building resilience within a company
    • 08:18 Chaos monkey
    • Applying the method to people
    • Setting quality expectations that everyone agrees on
      • 10:45 Benefits are important
      • Healthcare, dental care, infertility, adoption, etc…
        • 12:46 Perceiving direct reports from a manager perspective about what parents really care about
        • Salary should fit one's needs, they aren’t worried if their kids need braces
        • What employees care about matters!
        • Managers syncing up for 1:1 calls is essential
        • Standing meetings
          • 17:30 Time management
          • Planning interruptions as a parent
          • Coding flow
          • Essential reminders
          • Working nights and weekends by choice
            • 27:57 Genius / fail moments
            • Chris Arcand hacked his three-year-old sleep with a soothing sound bath #genius
            • Chris Sexton’s son is a Scout and had to tackle the virtual retreat by sleeping in the yard for one week to mimic the real thing. Quarantine win #genius
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