So it's been another month
Guess I'm posting about twelve updates a year on average.
At least it's consistent.
We've started this new rotation at work. Developers who aren't considered principle yet (goes intern, associate, staff, senior, principal, senior principal, architect, etc) get put into a pool and are rotated through the various developmental departments at work. I started my first rotation in the on demand team four weeks ago. A slightly different product line in the company. It's nice not having to deal with customer issues and getting to sink my teeth into some development instead of just doing defect fixes or investigate performance issues (which is incredibly tedious and I just feel lost and sometimes hopeless doing it). Right now I'm working on the build and deployment process for them, and improving some existing tools they use and possibly writing some new ones. Their goal is to streamline and automate as much as possible.
I also got a new boss. My third boss here in less than 18 months. However, the new boss is only so much my boss in did I come into work today, when am I taking vacation, am I up for a promotion type business, he doesn't so much oversee what I'm doing on a day to day level, what projects I'm working on and such. I also still have some clean up work to do for my old position on L3. All and all I feel like no one really has a good idea of what I'm really doing on a regular basis, just that I'm staying busy. I have mixed feelings about this.
Part of this rotation also requires that I be in the office 7AM every Wednesday. When you're up until midnight most nights getting up at 5:30 is early.
Meredith and I went on vacation to Vermont three weeks ago. (Wow, feels so recent, but SwingIN was two weekends ago and the BJJ test was last Saturday so it has been a while). Our trip was to Vermont and the wonder of New England states. It is so quiet and peaceful up there. Lots of little towns bordered by the mountains and green forests. No billboards (which made it fun trying to find a bite to eat on the way up to the small towns since neither of us realized as we drove down the highway that we wouldn't be seeing signs for food stops along the way), and lots of locally owned shops and businesses. I'm not sure how they do grocery shopping or other big purchases up there for some of these towns. I guess they just drive a couple hours or so once a month and make a day out of it. I can't say there was a ton to do up there and I didn't chose some of the most ideal books for the trip, but I have very, very fond memories of it.
I swam in a lake that Meredith professed was full of leeches, but maybe it was just cold. And the town of Bennington has a 300+ ft monument. While that doesn't sound so tall, it absolutely towers above everything in the city when you have no sky scrapers. Visited Bennington college while we were there, just walking around the grounds. It's completely sectioned off from any local travel. You have take an isolated long winding road through a gate to get up to it. The campus is nice, but the experience of attending college there is probably wholly different from most other places even other small universities and colleges.
At least it's consistent.
We've started this new rotation at work. Developers who aren't considered principle yet (goes intern, associate, staff, senior, principal, senior principal, architect, etc) get put into a pool and are rotated through the various developmental departments at work. I started my first rotation in the on demand team four weeks ago. A slightly different product line in the company. It's nice not having to deal with customer issues and getting to sink my teeth into some development instead of just doing defect fixes or investigate performance issues (which is incredibly tedious and I just feel lost and sometimes hopeless doing it). Right now I'm working on the build and deployment process for them, and improving some existing tools they use and possibly writing some new ones. Their goal is to streamline and automate as much as possible.
I also got a new boss. My third boss here in less than 18 months. However, the new boss is only so much my boss in did I come into work today, when am I taking vacation, am I up for a promotion type business, he doesn't so much oversee what I'm doing on a day to day level, what projects I'm working on and such. I also still have some clean up work to do for my old position on L3. All and all I feel like no one really has a good idea of what I'm really doing on a regular basis, just that I'm staying busy. I have mixed feelings about this.
Part of this rotation also requires that I be in the office 7AM every Wednesday. When you're up until midnight most nights getting up at 5:30 is early.
Meredith and I went on vacation to Vermont three weeks ago. (Wow, feels so recent, but SwingIN was two weekends ago and the BJJ test was last Saturday so it has been a while). Our trip was to Vermont and the wonder of New England states. It is so quiet and peaceful up there. Lots of little towns bordered by the mountains and green forests. No billboards (which made it fun trying to find a bite to eat on the way up to the small towns since neither of us realized as we drove down the highway that we wouldn't be seeing signs for food stops along the way), and lots of locally owned shops and businesses. I'm not sure how they do grocery shopping or other big purchases up there for some of these towns. I guess they just drive a couple hours or so once a month and make a day out of it. I can't say there was a ton to do up there and I didn't chose some of the most ideal books for the trip, but I have very, very fond memories of it.
I swam in a lake that Meredith professed was full of leeches, but maybe it was just cold. And the town of Bennington has a 300+ ft monument. While that doesn't sound so tall, it absolutely towers above everything in the city when you have no sky scrapers. Visited Bennington college while we were there, just walking around the grounds. It's completely sectioned off from any local travel. You have take an isolated long winding road through a gate to get up to it. The campus is nice, but the experience of attending college there is probably wholly different from most other places even other small universities and colleges.