Comments | savorie: Woo, been awhile.

savorie

Woo, been awhile.

Oct 01, 2013 11:40

It's been a year of change. Hell, it's been a summer of change.

I'll speak first about career changes.

( A bit more background/context than necessary )

Comments 9

funcrunch October 1 2013, 19:43:58 UTC

Congrats on getting into programming. I see a lot of parallels with my excitement and frustrations when I first transitioned from doing tech support to doing programming.

I'd like to pick your brain about tech writing at some point if you'd be up for it, as I was strongly considering entering that field just before I got my first full-time web developer job back in '98. Now that I've been out of the regular workforce for nearly five years I'm reconsidering my career options. (I took some tech writing classes at UC Extension back in the late 90s and wrote in-house documentation frequently at my tech support and web dev jobs, but never had a formal tech writer position.)

auros October 1 2013, 20:28:04 UTC

Yay for developing new skills! (Though with my firm being as small as it is, I feel like I have to pick up something new every few months... We really need to get to the point where we can start expanding our workforce and letting people specialize more...) Anyways, glad you're feeling fulfilled at work, and I look forward to hearing more of the updates, if I'm on the appropriate filters... :-)

gows October 1 2013, 20:50:13 UTC

Good to see you! Was thinking about you recently. :)

dangerpudding October 1 2013, 22:32:06 UTC

Welcome to the ops side. :)

Memorization and muscle memory are useful (I often have to be typing to remember commands) but can be overrated - knowing how to find things is the more important skill, really.

istar October 2 2013, 02:25:42 UTC

Rad! Even if you end up hating coding with the passion of a thousand camels (and even we who love programming have a lot of things we enjoy hating on/ranting about), how could it possibly hurt your ambitions to learn and branch out into a relevant new skillset? You are enacting power over The Machine! And as dangerpudding pointed out, rote memorization is not a big deal. The zen of programming is having a beginner's mind, always open to learning and figuring out better ways of doing. Learning how to distinguish good example code (on stackoverflow, github, etc) from not-so-good example code is a pretty key skill that I exercise constantly.