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title = "Successful?"
author = ["George M Jones"]
publishDate = 2022-12-26
lastmod = 2022-12-26T07:12:07-05:00
tags = ["work", "100DaysToOffload"]
categories = ["blog"]
draft = false
+++

In <http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2022-12-25/> I said

> Bruce moved on from there to be VP of MSN at Microsoft for a while.
> Arguably a "Highly Successful Person"

Which, of course, begs (assumes, cedes) the question:

> What is success?

Bruce embraced the management track.  I've fairly consistently and
actively dodged it, ironically after Bruce promoted me to my first
supervisory role ... managing the development of a web-page creation
tool for CompuServe's "MySpace"-like web page publishing system
... from there I took a hard career turn into the security world
focusing on Internet security, routers, linux/unix, etc.  For me,
that's been a resounding success.  Just no direct reports, budgets
or Microsoft Windows, which were anti-goals for me.  I've focused on
front-line, hands-on doing.

\#41 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>