Letting it bleed so much into life. My job and my hobby (code) have significant overlap. Stuff I learned on the job started making hobby coding not fun and shortcomings at the job started to feel like my own personal failures. I am slowly learning to separate my work and personal identities, to understand that my employer’s stuff is not my own, and to leave work at work when work ends. I wish I had done that from the first day though.
Not have any expectations about excelling in my career, nor any expectations about having support in serving the public, although that is entirely what we do.
I’d do a much better job of writing a certain web app so that I don’t need to spend the next seven+ years maintaining a pile of shitty PHP and copy-pasted JQuery.
I got put in a project that people overpromised and I’m getting shafted by the fact that the client wants way more than I think they’re paying for, so it’s certainly running late. I’d ask a couple months in for a bit more help.
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