It's official; I have a signed offer letter in my hands I'm sending back today that says I'm a developer now. So now less on-call, panicked phone troubleshooting. Which in many ways I'll miss, since that's really what I'm best at. Although I won't miss the false alarms and mundane problems. Or figuring out the problem in 15 minutes, then having to sit on the call for 7 more hours listening to people try and troubleshoot their broken systems.
I'm pretty excited to be launching out in a new direction. It will be great for my development abilities to write code every day, on a deadline. I get stuck a lot because I know what bad code looks like from studying so much of it. So when I start coding a project, I very quickly realize my approach is flawed and back off, so I don't finish a lot.
I'm good at reading code and finding bugs, hopefully after a while of doing it I'll be pretty profcient at writing it too. Wish me luck.
Hey Congratulations! I can remember, way back when I was a wee lass, when my dad would come home and rant and rave about debugging systems. I never really understood, but my mom and I would sit and listen intently as he pretty much figured it out while ranting. My dads a programmer too. I just wish it were in me to do the same. Good luck in your endeavors Rob! j.mcf
Written offer letters are cool and all, but the real milestone is breaking the build. I'm starting a pool on your first bagel purchase.
Paul's just mad because since he's gone, now when he breaks the build he can't try to in it on the "new guy" (me).
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