@JenWojcik @april indeed, and those were pretty hard years for me too. I unfortunately, legitimately have some pretty bad work PTSD from those years working for Capital Factory companies. It manifests as hyper vigilance and goes downhill from there.

The linked talk is an ignite talk with auto advancing slides, but it was distilled out of a longer form talk about mistakes I’ve made in my career and what I’ve done to correct them. It’s much easier to get the shorter talks accepted at these conferences. After that talk, I led an open conversation session that talked about what people are earning and how to get that at least to median. We call this #talkpay or #paytalk … I really love the DevOps Days community conference format because we can have a lot of these difficult conversations.