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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Chris Arcand
Chris Sexton

Episode 040 Pressure and Considerations Around Leaving a Job for Ethical Reasons.

00:20 Welcome

• We discuss what it's like to work for a company that you may not agree with their ethics
• The difficult decisions and thoughts when you have a family and dependents counting on you

00:55 Examples of companies dealing with ethical controversy

• Companies working with ICE, kickstarter
• Ethical clients, customers, organizers, labor oriented - who’s responsible?

02:34 Technology, good or evil?

• Surveillance
• Hyper aware of indications within our jobs and technology
• Being in the tech industry, able to create foundational tech communication - bonus
• US culture is more politically aware within the last few years

06:40 Being more involved

• Lessons of the past
• Minority identity
• What are we if we don’t participate

09:30 Support and encouragement to leave a job, things to consider

• Financial decisions play a huge role
• Putting family at financial risk
• Healthcare
• Retirement benefits

16:44 Inflexible costs of leaving a job

• Childcare
• Extra childcare - nannies livelihood
• Donation makeup for moral indications

19:35 What can we do?

• Don’t public shame others
• Leaving a role is instant, but long term change takes time
• Use your voice for what you support
• Vote with your wallet

28:15 Genius / Fail moments

• Allison's son gets groovy with techno in the AM
• Adarsh’s son is back in the hospital from another day at the park..
• The monkey bars!
• Kids are being taught how to talk about their feelings #hugeWin

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Allison McMillan
Adarsh Pandit