https://www.howarddierking.com/tags/career/ Recent content in career on howarddierking.com Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2026/05/22/coder-interview-a-decade-later/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2026/05/22/coder-interview-a-decade-later/ Back in 2012, the folks at Code Project interviewed me as part of their ongoing series profiling developers — their backgrounds, projects, interests, and pet peeves. At the time I was a PM on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, freshly off of a stint running MSDN Magazine. A decade-plus later, they reached out again to do a follow-up — same questions, very different answers, as a lot has changed. Sadly one of the things that changed between the start and completion of the interview was that Code Project ceased operation. https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/09/07/on-change-and-career/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/09/07/on-change-and-career/ I originally wrote this as talking points for a conversation I had with my team and wasn’t planning on sharing it more broadly. However, as I’ve been watching this crazy industry of ours over the last several months, I think that these thoughts apply to many more people than just those on my team and I hope that at least one other person finds them useful. So first, a bit of context… https://www.howarddierking.com/2014/08/14/leaving-microsoft/ Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2014/08/14/leaving-microsoft/ After 8 amazing years, it’s time for me to move on. I’ll articulate my own rationale for leaving shortly, but it would be disingenuous to not first list some of the many, many ways that I have grown and benefited from my time working at Microsoft. I got to run the developer certification program where I designed and built programs that helped start and grow the careers of many. It was also in this role that I had the opportunity to file my first patent. https://www.howarddierking.com/2014/06/14/stuck-in-a-rut/ Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2014/06/14/stuck-in-a-rut/ Warning: This is a completely downer of a post. If you don’t want to risk being pulled down with me, stop now. I don’t know whether the place I’m at is particular to software folks or whether it’s something more general that everybody has to deal with at one point or another. I feel stuck. Stuck between holding onto the technical skills that I spent more than a decade developing and building up more abstract skills like management and business development.