Worry or not?
Tomorrow morning, I'll be having my three-month interview, for the end of my probation period. I do feel a bit insecure about that.
I've been applied on projects that aren't exactly my forte, but where I think I still did adequately, just because I rock so damned much (but there's severe wastage!). I've "suffered" from what apenwarr called the pphaneuf syndrome, where it looks like I'm doing nothing and really, I'm figuring hardcore stuff out, and at the end, the solution is so simple that people are tempted to think I'm a slacker (but if they had tried the same, they'd know I'm not). At NITI, I'd do a lot of code cleanups, where there wasn't too much of a scheduled attached to it, so that I'd be doing something useful with that idle time, or I'd be doing project management, which sucks in lots of time, but isn't too brain-intensive that I can "think in the background". Also, I've been missing all the clever task management tools we had at NITI.
At lunch, there was something I found curious, where during conversation, the prettiness of girls in some place came upon the subject, and at which point I mentioned that Toulouse wasn't treating us too badly in that regard, people looked at me and I was reminded of "having a, uh, roommate". Uh, never mind this being me and my "funny things", I'm just talking about having pretty girls to look at? I've heard comments like this before, but I found it very surprising coming from French people.
Oh well.
I've been applied on projects that aren't exactly my forte, but where I think I still did adequately, just because I rock so damned much (but there's severe wastage!). I've "suffered" from what apenwarr called the pphaneuf syndrome, where it looks like I'm doing nothing and really, I'm figuring hardcore stuff out, and at the end, the solution is so simple that people are tempted to think I'm a slacker (but if they had tried the same, they'd know I'm not). At NITI, I'd do a lot of code cleanups, where there wasn't too much of a scheduled attached to it, so that I'd be doing something useful with that idle time, or I'd be doing project management, which sucks in lots of time, but isn't too brain-intensive that I can "think in the background". Also, I've been missing all the clever task management tools we had at NITI.
At lunch, there was something I found curious, where during conversation, the prettiness of girls in some place came upon the subject, and at which point I mentioned that Toulouse wasn't treating us too badly in that regard, people looked at me and I was reminded of "having a, uh, roommate". Uh, never mind this being me and my "funny things", I'm just talking about having pretty girls to look at? I've heard comments like this before, but I found it very surprising coming from French people.
Oh well.