Things have been pretty weird lately, am caught in whirlwind of emotions which are diametrically opposite. A whole lot of good and whole lot of bad. The picture on the left though not initially taken to be symbolic BUT it now is – Dreaming of further regression OR dreaming of something in future…
Work has been very very demanding not to mention that it has been enjoyable as well. Work on Coppermine is progressing at a clipping pace, as I type this I am chatting with one client who keeps awake through out the night on other side of the world so that he can liaison with us and at the same time telling both my team leaders what my vision of the new projects about to begin will be…
Got the check for an article I wrote long back, thus another 10K got added to my Camera fund today – looks like next month I will have it.
As the first crop of senior SANIsoft programmers is now moving on I am realizing that I have not inculcated enough “People Skills” in them.
They came to me when they were 18, it was their first job, were with SANIsoft for almost 5 years during which all they had to do was learn PHP , more PHP, anything else was secondary, even goofing up on commercial projects was OK as long as they learned from their mistakes. They never learned any skills about talking to people, manipulating them, OR any alternate skills other than what was needed to get their creations working on the target servers – they knew their PHP, at times better than me, and were the demigods of SANIsoft… …
Alas real world is so much more different. Two of them are throughly disgusted with the job market and/or managers, one left programming and joined his father in printing business.
Somewhere I am feeling very guilty….