How to Make Your Career Suck Less: A Guide to a Less Painful IT Experience

by Igor Ljubuncic

Once upon a time, you were young, naive, full of hope, dreams and ambitions. You thought you could make a change! But then you started working in IT…

Your career isn’t progressing as you imagined? Too much micro-management, too much workplace politics? Not sure how to transform your ideas into projects? Looking for a way to add structure to your everyday job? Perhaps I can help. Let’s turn the tables. Let’s embrace the aggressive in passive-aggressive.

This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide on how to make your career more successful, despite the corporate odds stacked against you. It’s not all bitter cynicism, either. The book offers genuine, proven tips, how to write your CV and prepare for an interview, how to create your first open-source project, how to talk to your manager, how to present at a conference, and a lot more.

Join me for a fantastic ride. Let the un-suckening begin.

250 pages, Paperback

Published September 6, 2024

About the author

Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation and a Linux nerd by profession. Igor comes with 20+ years of experience in the tech industry, including medical, high-performance computing, data center, cloud, and hosting fields, with an emphasis on problem-solving and the scientific method. To date, Igor’s portfolio includes 15 patents, 21 books, several open-source projects, numerous publications in leading journals, presentations at prestigious international conferences, and awards for advocacy and literature.

When it comes to writing, Igor’s shelf covers technical books, novels across multiple genres, plus several anthologies, including the short story The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History. Over the years, Igor’s other fiction works have received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Underground Book Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and SFFWorld.

His technical book on problem-solving in high-performance computing is part of the computer science undergraduate studies curricula at several universities worldwide. It has also been translated to Mandarin.

In his free time, Igor runs a popular science and technology blog, www.dedoimedo.com, drives fast cars on racetracks, does mean impressions of celebrities, and sings in a wide range of languages, from Finnish to Old Norse to Albanian, Polish, Spanish, and many others.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not in IT, but there's still lots of useful advice in Ljubuncic's book. From general thoughts on interpersonal interaction to specifics on how to make a presentation, he has many tips on building a career trajectory that works.
The style is not overly serious, as if you couldn't tell that from the title, but the content is genuine.
Overall an enjoyable and informative read.

[Nathaniel Geyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book. I think it is an important for finding your niche and creating a job that works for you. I am not in IT by choice. However, I work with IT who are doing things that are outside their niches and are getting burnt out. My advice is find mentors, collaborate with peers, and delegate tasks that are not your forte. I have said no and delegate tasks to others and recently got a grant for that task with my peers praising me for passing.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖍️ The most impressive point of How to Make Your Career Suck Less: A Guide to a Less Painful IT Experience is how concise and succinct Igor Ljubuncic is throughout this work. It’s written in a comfortable, matter-of-fact style and good, light humor that draws in the reader to want to read more. I enjoyed reading this book in one sitting, and the information might just be useful to me.

♦️ I received a Kindle eBook copy via the Goodreads Giveaway Program. Thank you to Igor Ljubuncic. 😀
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[Stacy Lopshire]

I'm so excited to read this, thank you for the book!

[AMAO · Rating 5 out of 5]

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