I am currently in a serious state of flux
there is lots of me trying to understand shit here within...
there is lots of me trying to understand shit here within...
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For the past four years I have been working in my dream job. I am a software developer, I love working with computers, I love bending them to my will, I love it when they fight back. Call it egotistical, call it masochism, call it Sadism...
Which by the by reminds me of my favourite joke A masochist walks up to a sadist and says hurt me. The sadist pauses for awhile and says no
But I digress...
At the beginning of the month my best friend and colleague of the last 4 years resigned. And with him going I feel that all the enthusiasm I have for this company has also drained away. Its quite sad really. I remember us having a conversation less than a year ago discussing how much money it would take to lure us away from our present jobs, and we were talking in the order of 20% at least to get us away.
Oh how things have changed. My mate resigned the other day and is going to be going to another company at the beginning of next month purely because technologically our company has not moved forward in the last 4 years, as a developer technology is your livelihood, being an expert at a technology is what makes you valuable.
Now without knowing that my mate had been offered a job Id gone to one of the managers and told him that for the first time since I arrived at the company I actually feel like Im working, and will accept job offers.
So fast forward a month and my mate resigns... which leaves the company scrambling. Theyve just lost 1 of their senior developers and know that another (me) may potentially leave at any moment. Not a big deal unless you consider that its a small company and 2 senior developers out of a team of 5 is quite large.
Anyway so now the company is telling us were going to do this that and the next thing, but Im not sure if we are. I almost feel as if its a ploy to make me stay... and Im taking everything that I hear with a pinch of salt.
Anyway my CV is now out and about on the ether, so we shall see what happens
Ps leaving this company will make me heart sore theyre my daytime family and as much as I feel I need to leave to further myself technically I dont want to leave because of the people that are here *sigh*
Craig and I at his girlfriends 21st
For the past four years I have been working in my dream job. I am a software developer, I love working with computers, I love bending them to my will, I love it when they fight back. Call it egotistical, call it masochism, call it Sadism...
Which by the by reminds me of my favourite joke A masochist walks up to a sadist and says hurt me. The sadist pauses for awhile and says no
But I digress...
At the beginning of the month my best friend and colleague of the last 4 years resigned. And with him going I feel that all the enthusiasm I have for this company has also drained away. Its quite sad really. I remember us having a conversation less than a year ago discussing how much money it would take to lure us away from our present jobs, and we were talking in the order of 20% at least to get us away.
Oh how things have changed. My mate resigned the other day and is going to be going to another company at the beginning of next month purely because technologically our company has not moved forward in the last 4 years, as a developer technology is your livelihood, being an expert at a technology is what makes you valuable.
Now without knowing that my mate had been offered a job Id gone to one of the managers and told him that for the first time since I arrived at the company I actually feel like Im working, and will accept job offers.
So fast forward a month and my mate resigns... which leaves the company scrambling. Theyve just lost 1 of their senior developers and know that another (me) may potentially leave at any moment. Not a big deal unless you consider that its a small company and 2 senior developers out of a team of 5 is quite large.
Anyway so now the company is telling us were going to do this that and the next thing, but Im not sure if we are. I almost feel as if its a ploy to make me stay... and Im taking everything that I hear with a pinch of salt.
Anyway my CV is now out and about on the ether, so we shall see what happens
Ps leaving this company will make me heart sore theyre my daytime family and as much as I feel I need to leave to further myself technically I dont want to leave because of the people that are here *sigh*
Craig and I at his girlfriends 21st
lol, jobs suck. i hate mine. by the way, i think we might have a position available for a senior software person in JHB. il message you tomorrow and let you know (you have to send me your CV though cuz i have to get something out of this!!!!).