A quarter of tech workers think their current job is a big mistake

A quarter of tech workers think their current job is a big mistakeA quarter of tech workers think their current job is a big mistakeAre you having regrets about your most recent career move? Whether its caused by bad coworkers or management or because of company scandals or dropping stocks, many tech employees regret taking their job acceptance.We asked them to respond with either TRUE or FALSE to this statementI regret accepting my job at my current company.Heres what we found23.4%responded that this statement is TRUE, and that they regret accepting their current job.76.63% responded that this statement is FALSEWe also took a look at the results broken down by companies with at least 100 employee responses. Heres what we foundSnapchatled the way with39.2%of employees answering with TRUE.Rounding out the top three were Oracle (with 34.13%) and Intel (with 32.04%).Facebookhad the lowest percentage of employees answering with12%.The two other companies with the lowest percentage of emp loyees answering with TRUE are Google (with 14%) and LinkedIn (with 15.8%).So, why do nearly a quarter of tech workers regret taking their current job? We cant be sure, but one factor could be job burnout. In another recent survey,57% of tech workersresponded that they currently suffer from job burnout. The four companies with the highest percentage of employees who say they regret their current job (Oracle, Snapchat, eBay, and Intel) are also companies with higher than average responded employee burnout. Conversely, the percentage of employees at Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Uber (companies with the lowest percentage of employees saying they regret their current job) said they suffer from job burnout was lower than the overall survey average.More survey detailsThe survey ran from Oct 25 through Nov 1, 2018, and was answered by 10,396 users of the Blind app. Users could only answer once.This article was originally published on TeamBlind.

Take that shot Youll miss 100% of the ones you dont take

Take that shot Youll miss 100% of the ones you dont takeTake that shot Youll miss 100% of the ones you dont takeWith great power, comes great responsibility. - Stan Lee, SpidermanAt the beginning of basketball season, during my senior year of high school, my long-time friend and I were named captains of our gruppe. It was a tremendous honor. My coach and teammates thought enough of us to make us leaders. Now, we had to act like them. Which meant, being fearless in the face of big decisions and opportunities.Despite naming us as captains, my coach also knew we each had our shortcomings. I had to overcome a fiery attitude. I played angry, I played emotional - and my coach knew it. So we addressed it and figured out how to use it to my advantage.My co-captain was the ultimate team player. In fact, at times, he was a little too unselfish. During one of our toughest losses of the season, on the road against a rival, my friend missed a layup (a close shot) at a big moment in the game. He felt terrible about it, realizing it was a missed opportunity that could have helped us win the game.So, my coach made sure he knew that making mistakes were OK. He gave him a gift - one Ive always remembered and reminded myself of at pivotal moments in my life. It was a statuette of a basketball and inscribed on the bottom it read,Youll never make 100% of the shots you dont take.The words are a double-negative take on the famous Wayne Gretzky quote that is the title of this article. Wayne Gretzky is known universally as the greatest hockey player to ever live. He said these words, as both a great goal scorer and passer, because he recognized what it meant to go for it. Gretzky understood hed make mistakes.He recognized hed fail, punkt down and have to get back up again.Most significantly, The Great One knew if he never gave things a shot, hed have to live with that awful feeling of regret. You know the feeling - where youre suspended in a dreary thought purgatory, wondering, Wha t could have been?Go for itGretzky was talented beyond measure, and early on in his career, he was encouraged to become the young leader of the Edmonton Oilers and elevate his game to help make the players around him better. It paid off. Gretzky would go on to win four Stanley Cup (NHL hockey championships) with the Oilers during the 1980s.Ive took this lesson with me everywhere Ive gone. That simple gift meant so much to my friend and it meant a lot to me, as well. It did so much to dash fear, hesitancy and indecisiveness. Three things that can destroy us and halt progress. Indecision and fear, in particular, will stop us from ever achieving the biggest dreams and goals in our lives.If you play with the mindset that making mistakes is OK, that giving things a shot is the right way to go, then youll always live with greater confidence. Youll see positive results. While it helps having a coach, teacher or friend there to help you, that rolle wont always be there. Once youve matured i nto the young woman or man you are, youll know that making that decision, versus not making one at all, is what its all about.We went on to have a very successful season that year. We learned that mistakes were OK. That wed always fail, always miss out if we never gave things a shot. Its always better to give things a shot.Where are you?Maybe youre on the fence right now about something. Is it fear of asking out the woman of your dreams? Indecision around whether to accept or decline a job? Could be you fear public speaking - or putting your design, writing or art out there for public consumption. Trust me when I tell you, you have to be willing to give it a shot.Theres an odd comfort in fear. Fear leaves us trapped, but it oddly squashes future fear about giving things a shot. So we sometimes stay there. Stuck in a vicious cycle. When we look at things objectively, its foolish to live in fear. The reason we often do - why we dont give things a shot - is because we often fear suc cess. We fear the unknown - of becoming something bigger, greater and more amazing than we could ever imagine.Dont be that rolle who sits on the sidelines and never gets to know. Give it a shot. Shoot for the stars. Let this be your call to action to move forward with that big decision in your life thats waiting for you.Get startedJoin my newsletter and check out my bestselling book, The Value of You. This will give you inspiration to start planning for success on your journey. If youre interested in working with me try me here.This article first appeared on Medium.

ASME Enters Into Co-Branding Agreement with Wiley

ASME Enters Into Co-Branding Agreement with Wiley ASME Enters Into Co-Branding Agreement with Wiley ASME Enters Into Co-Branding Agreement with Wiley ASME recently signed an agreement with global technical publisher John Wiley Sons Inc. to develop and publish a collection of mechanical engineering books under the co-branded Wiley-ASME Press Series imprint. The new agreement brings the two organizations together in an initiative that combines ASMEs mission of serving global communities by advancing, disseminating and applying engineering knowledge with Wileys more than 200 years of publishing experience.ASME and Wiley plan to publish 10 new titles per year, with the potential to increase this number in future years. New titles under the imprint, which will carry both the Wiley and the ASME Press logos, will be released in early 2016.Books published under the new Wiley-ASME Press Series will target an audience that includes researchers professional engineers and technical staff in ind ustry educators and trainers industry analysts and researchers and upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate-level students, according to the two organizations.The first title in the series, Introduction to Dynamics and Control in Mechanical Engineering Systems, is scheduled to be published next April. The publication, by Cho Wing Solomon To of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is an introductory textbook covering dynamics and controls of engineering systems, with a specific focus on mechanical engineering systems. Copies of the book can be pre-ordered on the Wiley website.ASME and Wiley also plan on releasing two additional titles Nonlinear Regression Modelling by Russ Rhinehart from Oklahoma State University and Fundamentals of Mechanical Vibrations by Liang-Wu Cai of Kansas State University under the new imprint within the first half of 2016.In addition to the creation of the new co-branded imprint, the new agreement will also ASME members to receive a 20 percent discount o n all Wiley books. To receive the discount, simply enter the code ASM3 when ordering books on www.wiley.com.To pre-order a copy of Introduction to Dynamics and Control in Mechanical Engineering Systems, visit wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111893492X.html. For more information on ASME Press and its publications, visit www.asmepress.org.