<story><title>Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech</title><url>https://medium.com/camplight/fired-why-cooperatives-might-be-your-next-career-choice-in-tech-73d689466609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fimdomeio</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently part of the administration of a co-op. It&amp;#x27;s in Portugal and it&amp;#x27;s a Multisectorial co-op, meaning instead of being focused on one type of activity we do anything as long as we have a member with that skillset. We are an agregation of freelancers and small businesses that go from small scale farming, to web development or architecture. The coop serves as a way to have a lot of the nice things of a bigger corporation like someone to help you with burocratic processes while allowing people to keep their independence. People can be very involved in the decision making or just financially contribute to the central structure. We have both general assemblies where all members vote in a very horizontal process but the day to day work has hierarchies to keep processes going smoothly&lt;p&gt;The biggest thing I&amp;#x27;ve learned from being part of this process is that co-ops vastly destroys competition among peers and replace that we the mindset of &amp;quot;what&amp;#x27;s the best way to benefit the collective&amp;quot;. Best thing to make it work is that it&amp;#x27;s not just altruism, benefiting the collective benefits yourself. Kind of like OSS works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpastuszak</author><text>Mind sharing the details? I&amp;#x27;m based in Porto and I&amp;#x27;ve been trying to learn a bit more about working in a co-op.&lt;p&gt;My contact details are in the profile, alternatively feel free to come and say hi: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sonnet.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;hi&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sonnet.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;hi&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech</title><url>https://medium.com/camplight/fired-why-cooperatives-might-be-your-next-career-choice-in-tech-73d689466609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fimdomeio</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently part of the administration of a co-op. It&amp;#x27;s in Portugal and it&amp;#x27;s a Multisectorial co-op, meaning instead of being focused on one type of activity we do anything as long as we have a member with that skillset. We are an agregation of freelancers and small businesses that go from small scale farming, to web development or architecture. The coop serves as a way to have a lot of the nice things of a bigger corporation like someone to help you with burocratic processes while allowing people to keep their independence. People can be very involved in the decision making or just financially contribute to the central structure. We have both general assemblies where all members vote in a very horizontal process but the day to day work has hierarchies to keep processes going smoothly&lt;p&gt;The biggest thing I&amp;#x27;ve learned from being part of this process is that co-ops vastly destroys competition among peers and replace that we the mindset of &amp;quot;what&amp;#x27;s the best way to benefit the collective&amp;quot;. Best thing to make it work is that it&amp;#x27;s not just altruism, benefiting the collective benefits yourself. Kind of like OSS works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranguna</author><text>Hello!&lt;p&gt;Mind sharing the co-op name?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m living in Portugal right now and I&amp;#x27;m thinking about switching careers, so I might give that a look.</text></comment>