Day Job
It’s been a while. I don’t talk about my day job and don’t plan to start, but it’s part of the reason it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Here’s a short vignette.At a meeting recently there were nine people in attendance, seven of us physically present and two called in to the meeting. We’re discussing the project that I and one other engineer are working on (both of us are there in the meeting). The other engineer is part-time. He’s also very experienced but near retirement and as the titular head of the technical effort handles more of the official paperwork. Both the ideas behind this project and the large majority of the code are mine. So the critical path for almost all of the actual technical work runs through me.The nine of us in the meeting were from the client (government agency) and my day job’s company. We spent over an hour and a half discussing what this project is to do. Essentially we were discussing what the next six months of my working life and what time I would be able to have off and what I expected to be able to accomplish.I’m not important enough that this many people need to plan my activities. Something’s wrong when seven people are managing two workers. And we’ve got yet another meeting today too.