So Far

So I recently passed the one year mark at my job. Its strange I’m almost like one of the veterans around here and I’m only 23. So many people have come in after me, I think its kind of funny.

My assessment so far is a little more so-so. I guess I expected to be more involved at this point I guess. I feel like the tasks I’m given are being selected for what I am capable o, not what I could be capable of, and thats not exactly what I signed up for. I was hoping for a challenge, but it doesn’t really seem to be going that way. Basically I’m bored. I find myself spending more time waiting for tasks, than accomplishing them.

Over the next week or so I am going to do my best to change this course, but I’m just a little worried since we are in the midst of the holiday season and every seems to be “checking out” little by little.

First!!!1!1

I recently decided to start a blog. I am a software developer about a year and a half out of college, and thankfully am one of the lucky ones who has managed to be gainfully employed for a year. I frequently read Jeff Atwood’s blog Coding Horror. I could not find the actual post, but I remember he gave advice for junior level people like myself, and one piece of that was to start a blog. I have been playing with the idea for a little while now and I finally decided to buckle down and give it a shot.

So here it goes…