How has your week been? What did you do?
What is one good thing you did this week and why is it important?
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Had a typical work week then went to a wedding over the weekend. It was good to spend time with family and build memories.
Watered tomatoes, gathered a handful over the week. Feel bad. Barely made dinner. Good things. Tomatoes are growing despite the hatred of the sun.
I am looking into going back to school! Looking at getting an associate's in IT. I already have a bachelor's in psych but it, uh, hasn't worked out.
Was psych boring? I certainly love reading about it, but it is useless for me to go to school for it, because I don't want to work in that field. I haven't learned to keep my emotions separate from other people's emotions. If I were to pursue being a therapist, it would be hard to listen to people vent all day.
Psych is fascinating! But you can do precisely "jack" and "squat" with a bachelor's, and I don't have the temperament for academia so I'm not getting a higher degree, at least not in that field. So yeah, definitely don't go into psych unless you're prepared to get a master's, absolute minimum.
My life is in major flux right now. I’m leaving a long time, stable job to start my own company. I’m doing work on my house, and I’m about to take some time off to travel. Things aren’t shitty for a change.
This week in particular was getting our shed/now office painted. Next week is floors, and then travel!
Nice! I only wish you the best.
I made art, spent time with family and watched a sermon. These are important because they give my life meaning.
My team is struggling mightily to deliver our dependencies on time for a massive, multi-team project that either is deployed before busy season or fails. Two weeks ago another team started to implement our already-built design and came back and said we had to redesign and change the API we had built. So I had some late nights while I rebuilt it myself after I was done with my typical 8-10 hours of work per day because my team could not do that and deliver phase 2 which is already half complete.
Wednesday they came back to us and said they needed more changes, and proceeded to describe the original architecture. So we're rolling the change back. I feel both vindicated and pissed off.
Then, Friday at 5pm, I get abruptly pulled into a meeting in which another team explains my team is responsible for a potential loss in the millions of dollars. They showed evidence and sure enough they found a bug of sorts and I said I'd research it over the weekend. So I stayed up until midnight pulling all the data I could and looking at what it said.
Turns out, I find no data connecting the lost revenue with the bug — less than 2% of these cases were related to the bug in any way. Then I thought further and remembered we already provide them the information they need to resolve the bug themselves. What did cause the lost sales? The usual smattering of bad upstream data and ordinary data processing issues — no system is perfect, but if the incidence of errors is small enough, they go on a backlog if fixable or get absorbed in error statistics if not.
Now, I'm even more pissed that I was set up (the other team had their narrative queued up and ready to fire before I could even get out a sentence), but I can't fucking wait until Monday. I'm going to tear them apart and instead of having to tell my boss I fucked up and ask him to step in as an authority, I can just tell him I handled it, but he needs to know in case it comes up in any of his meetings.
So I don't know if it was a great week or an awful one. I can say I feel betrayed by people I've treated well and went out of my way to help be successful, and I don't take that lightly and I don't forget
You don't grade the week based on ups and downs, you grade it by how you feel afterwards. And, since you stated you found a solution to the weeks problems, I would call that a win and a good week. Experience is just a series of mistakes that you learn from. And you have that.
It's true, I am going into next week feeling a lot better about things. I just wish everyone else realized we are all part of a team and success is a lot easier working together than at each other's throats. They've set themselves up to look like idiots, and as vindicating as that will feel, I'd rather we just cooperate and deliver and make us all look good.
Unfortunately, we are not at all close to that in our modern society. There are too many selfish people. Best thing to do is to continue to do your part and hope for others to do theirs. But keep a low expectation for them.
I'm just not wired that way. I've achieved my career goals — any further and I get further from what I enjoy about building software. I just want to help everyone achieve their best at this point.
More money is always nice, but I have enough to enjoy life, and what I really enjoy is helping others and the best way I can do that is share my thirty years of experience. But people come with their egos and ambition and I'm not about that.
I'm on my deck with a cigar and jalapeño martini and the love of my life at my side and no one can take any of that from me, so I'm not in competition with anyone.
Thank you for the perspective, though. I chose not to be so cynical because I don't want to live in that world, but when I am confronted with such disappointment, it is a bit of a shock.
Now, I gotta try a jalapeno martini. I love all things jalapeno.
I just add .5oz of jalapeño brine to a dirty martini. It gives it just enough zing. Sometimes I lean towards .75oz. And throw one or two rings in the glass with the olives.
If you come up with a better recipe, let me know.
I'll try it.
I finished a book, got some work done on my house and yard, and had friends visit over Friday night. Good way to spend my last week of freedom before summer break ends Monday.
What are you studying?
Work. I do physical therapy with school kids.