I've been speaking at Orlando Code Camp every year since 2014, minus the pandemic years. Put on every year by the Orlando .Net User Group (ONETUG), it is, without question, professionally my favorite weekend of the year. It has been a little less robust the last few years, because a good friend that I made moved out of state and doesn't get to participate. On the other hand, my first boss in Orlando, who to this day considers me a peer, is a professor at the college where we have the event.
I inevitably get caught up in conversations about how things go in our job, and that always leads to conversations about how things should really be based on our collective experiences. Then we wonder, "Wait, why are things not the way we think they should be?" Often the answer is that we're not proud enough to force the issue.
Mostly I just think about how to do this for another five or six years in a way that is satisfying without compromise or shitty feelings.
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