:: Job Hunt :: The Only Way Is Up ::

My last job wasn't actually that of a simple coder. I worked at a small start-up, and thus was eventually promoted to be a Vice President. Yes, yes. You may call me "Your Honor".

Alas, this didn't prove to be such a clear advantage when I was looking for my regular C++ programming job last month. For some reason, no-one would believe I would actually go back to the debugger after being a VP. I was asked again and again polite questions, all of which came down to the meaning of "What the
$%&* is wrong with you?"

This had me thinking.

It's like when you're rich and you sleep in 5-star hotels and you think that you are a big winner. What you don't notice is that you're also a big loser. You gradually lose your ability to sleep in small, cheap dorm rooms. And that's an ability that might come in handy some day.

So, scared of the possibility that I would never again be allowed to write functions, debug my code and get my hands dirty, I was even more decisive that I had to go down the ladder. I had to cling on to at least a few more years of coding life. I don't want to become middle management so quickly. There's no way back.

This up-gravity. It scares me.

Wadi Writer #2 (Blue)
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