That next post
"Oh, yeah, I'll start writing something again soon."
See if I believe myself again.
I'm uncertain where even to start. It's been - what - a year and a half? Two?
I'm married. That goes right up here at the top, in case psycomezzma ever reads this. We're still in my-now-our condo. We would like to trade up next year, but the neighbors are undermining us. The condo across the hall has been empty and for sale since spring last year, and they've dropped their asking price by at least $30k and still haven't been able to sell it. This is depressing both us and the market, where the market is the potential sale of our condo.
I am employed, mostly gainfully. I get the occasional travel - I could probably travel as often as I like except I'm still in classes, half the places I would get to travel are too hot, and half of those are apparently desert as well, and I'm the only person who knows how to do useful work on a large chunk of our code base, so there you go.
Work. I probably won't talk about it much, except maybe in the hand-wavy abstract, because 1 - can't talk about what I do beyond "software", and 2 - paranoia that this lj ever becomes read by current or future employers/coworkers (or cow-orkers).
I will, however, make two general points. First: Visual Basic 6 is, was, and shall forever be an Abomination Before Both God And Man. If anyone ever thinks "Ah! I shall write a VB6 application!" let that person be shot for the good of all humanity. Second: If tomorrow you were fired and forced to look for a new position in your current field, and you WOULD NOT BE HIRED because you aren't qualified, that means you aren't too good at your job today. You should probably fix that. If not out of a sense of personal pride, then at least out of consideration for those to whom you are a cow-orker, not a coworker.
See if I believe myself again.
I'm uncertain where even to start. It's been - what - a year and a half? Two?
I'm married. That goes right up here at the top, in case psycomezzma ever reads this. We're still in my-now-our condo. We would like to trade up next year, but the neighbors are undermining us. The condo across the hall has been empty and for sale since spring last year, and they've dropped their asking price by at least $30k and still haven't been able to sell it. This is depressing both us and the market, where the market is the potential sale of our condo.
I am employed, mostly gainfully. I get the occasional travel - I could probably travel as often as I like except I'm still in classes, half the places I would get to travel are too hot, and half of those are apparently desert as well, and I'm the only person who knows how to do useful work on a large chunk of our code base, so there you go.
Work. I probably won't talk about it much, except maybe in the hand-wavy abstract, because 1 - can't talk about what I do beyond "software", and 2 - paranoia that this lj ever becomes read by current or future employers/coworkers (or cow-orkers).
I will, however, make two general points. First: Visual Basic 6 is, was, and shall forever be an Abomination Before Both God And Man. If anyone ever thinks "Ah! I shall write a VB6 application!" let that person be shot for the good of all humanity. Second: If tomorrow you were fired and forced to look for a new position in your current field, and you WOULD NOT BE HIRED because you aren't qualified, that means you aren't too good at your job today. You should probably fix that. If not out of a sense of personal pride, then at least out of consideration for those to whom you are a cow-orker, not a coworker.