"John Hall" wrote in message
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xmetman writes
I never planned for this to happen, the whole thing has just happened very
quickly. I don't like responsibility and was never a manager in the Met
Office as I think Will has pointed out, all I ever wanted to at work was
program and even today that's true.

We have something in common. I don't like responsibility either, and was
never a manager (except briefly of one other person, and that didn't work
out well). And I too loved programming, though I haven't done any since
retiring. Sadly the trend at work was increasingly to contract out
programming, so the opportunities for doing that decreased over time. (I
wasn't in the Met Office, but WAS in the scientific civil service.)

My post would be another that posed a problem for a forum's moderator.

I did a bit of management, both project and human, but my heart was in
Research. Later in my career as a Senior Scientist I had some autonomy and
was able to suggest and carry out research. I too loved programming and was
a small system manager for a while (Sun workstations running UNIX). My ideal
working setup was take an idea (own or someone else's), set up an
experiment, program the code required to run said experiment. Run and debug
and then re-run and examine results. Come to conclusions, write a short
report and publish. I got to do a lot of that in my last 5 years of
employment. Trouble is, corporate stuff tended to get in the way sometimes.

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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