Blogger’s Note
I started blogging circa 2004. Apart from my slightly poor grammar skills then, my mind was very different at the time. And this cringy writing style went on for about 5ish more years. I threw away majority of my previous journal entries out of shame 😆 . But some made it to the cut, like this one, just something to laugh at or roll eyes with.
I love programming. You could do a lot of automation with just a few mental imaginations and keyboard manipulations. 😀
You know it felt lazy to encode data from some excel file and put it in another excel file. Like, I needed to do 15 sheets of those. I thought it was very easy. It actually was but it was frustrating looking at the numbers, and a little overwhelming. And yeah, I felt so lazy *again*. I spent my time browsing lifestyle blogs and PEP, of course. After a few hours of bumming around, I felt the need to activate my brain cells again. I might get fired if I don’t do my job. And since I miss Java (2 weeks of programming in C++ made me miss Java so much). I thought about using POI. And let it do the trick of transferring these numbers and a few texts. I should have thought about that in the morning. Too much time had been wasted reading those showbiz juices. 😀
So there I was, happy as I type those sweet codes of mine. It felt more fulfilling than doing stuff manually. And I felt alive there. Not sleepy in the holy hours of the office afternoon.
I knew I won’t stay a programmer for the rest of my career. One day I should give it up and level up to a more mature position, like management. My seniors tell me that it’s impossible to retain both. Like you have to give up either your technical or management skills. But I think it’s possible to have both as you advance in your career.
But well, that’s just me. I’m always thinking anything is possible.
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