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tyggerjaiI kinda got cynical about work christmas parties.
They were fun in the Rio days, for excessivly young, drunk and stupid values of fun :)
But this one was genuinely cool.
This is the Friday of the first week of my new job. And, as my UberBoss dropped in to my office to mention this afternoon, it feels like I've been there six months.
It's incredible, how quickly a focussed, practiced team can make you feel right at home. This job will no doubt end up sucking, as they all do, but they have a lot of staff who've obviously been there a long time without it sucking *too* much :)
Part of it, of course, is that they do things the way I would. The explanations of how the CVS and release procedures are structured went by very quickly - because I wrote similar things for Monash, which just somehow never happened. It'll be a little longer before I get my head around the actual code, but in between a large number of induction sessions, I've squashed a bug in an internal tool and had it rolled out to happy users, committed code to the actual alpha product, and owned up to having expertise in an area that made the bosses eyes light up with glee. All this is good.
I'm happy, I think :) I can see how it will suck, and I think I'll cope - architects who insist on their way are exactly what I've been missing after a couple of years of architects who, well, need the agreement of every coder on the team before making a decision :) That'll change as soon as I disagree with him, of course, but in the meantime, a little discipline will be good for me :)
And they seem to know not only what to do with me in the short-term but also have long term plans for me. Rather than "Oh, we needed another coder ... um ... we'll think of something :)".
Yay.
All good.
And two weeks off, and a girlfriends who rocks, and money in the bank, and everything is A.Ok...
sol.
.
They were fun in the Rio days, for excessivly young, drunk and stupid values of fun :)
But this one was genuinely cool.
This is the Friday of the first week of my new job. And, as my UberBoss dropped in to my office to mention this afternoon, it feels like I've been there six months.
It's incredible, how quickly a focussed, practiced team can make you feel right at home. This job will no doubt end up sucking, as they all do, but they have a lot of staff who've obviously been there a long time without it sucking *too* much :)
Part of it, of course, is that they do things the way I would. The explanations of how the CVS and release procedures are structured went by very quickly - because I wrote similar things for Monash, which just somehow never happened. It'll be a little longer before I get my head around the actual code, but in between a large number of induction sessions, I've squashed a bug in an internal tool and had it rolled out to happy users, committed code to the actual alpha product, and owned up to having expertise in an area that made the bosses eyes light up with glee. All this is good.
I'm happy, I think :) I can see how it will suck, and I think I'll cope - architects who insist on their way are exactly what I've been missing after a couple of years of architects who, well, need the agreement of every coder on the team before making a decision :) That'll change as soon as I disagree with him, of course, but in the meantime, a little discipline will be good for me :)
And they seem to know not only what to do with me in the short-term but also have long term plans for me. Rather than "Oh, we needed another coder ... um ... we'll think of something :)".
Yay.
All good.
And two weeks off, and a girlfriends who rocks, and money in the bank, and everything is A.Ok...
sol.
.