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End-to-end responsibility for a mission-critical system without which the company I was working for would have gone under in less than 6 weeks. Lone developer
by Beltiras 10y ago
End-to-end responsibility for a mission-critical system without which the company I was working for would have gone under in less than 6 weeks. Lone developer also responsible for workstations for roughly 30-40 employees. It was a wild 18 month ride but it was good schooling.
- asadjb 10y agoThis! For me it was almost the same as well. Being responsible for a full system, end-to-end which included learning Elasticsearch, deep diving into Django to integrate some complicated search forms, setting up and maintaining servers. What I've learned is it's about the amount of responsibility you get. If you're responsible for something, ideally something critical to the product, you learn a lot delivering that product. That's how I grew anyway.
- Beltiras 10y agoMy project was Django-based as well :D
- johngalt 10y agoHa love that. 'I know you're the guy saving the company and all... but my printer is jammed can you take a look?'
- Beltiras 10y agoThat was the lone task I abdicated. I do not work with printers. Horrible peripherals. One would think that the oldest peripheral was best understood.
- kelvin0 10y agoI hear ya, I also have (P)rinter (T)roubleshooting (S)tress (D)isorder. Wearing several hats is great, but having to support internal and external customers with printer issues (my main job was programming the company's flagship product also...) almost drove me to start farming potatoes somewhere far away. Brutal does not start to describe it.
- amalag 10y agoI am amazed that printer companies can get away with simply not releasing drivers for old printers. Pay a couple grand for a printer and then when the latest OS comes out the printer company says "sorry we can't give you a driver for the latest OS"
- Humdeee 10y agoI also have that form of PTSD. Funny war story, I have a small sized scar on one of my fingers because I put my fist through my last home printer. And I consider myself a pretty calm guy...
- kelvin0 10y agoYou will enjoy watching this then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8