Yes, it's that time of year again, I'm defecting.
Since leaving ADVFN I've been chasing the money and moving increasingly towards pure ops roles. I don't enjoy that sort of work. I don't like supervising releases, I dislike doing deployments, fiddling with config files is tedious, and being called at 2am sucks. The only bits I do enjoy are developing useful tools, and working out what chain of events led to an complex mass of interconnected apps falling over. When there's a limited number of tools that need writing, and a comparatively simple app to support (and with me having no access to the source), it's just not challenging enough to be interesting. So, erm, aren't I supposed to be senior engineering staff? Why am I doing support work? I get the feeling that I'm employed just in case something really bad happens, and the rest of the work is just there to fill the time when things are working.
Fortunately I've been offered the chance to escape into a development role. Sure it's going to mostly be PHP, and yes it's a pay-cut, but I'm actually hoping that I might finally be making a good employment choice. That'll be a first.
I start at the new place on the 12th April, however I've actually only got 3 working weeks left as I'm off skiing for 3 weeks before then.
Since leaving ADVFN I've been chasing the money and moving increasingly towards pure ops roles. I don't enjoy that sort of work. I don't like supervising releases, I dislike doing deployments, fiddling with config files is tedious, and being called at 2am sucks. The only bits I do enjoy are developing useful tools, and working out what chain of events led to an complex mass of interconnected apps falling over. When there's a limited number of tools that need writing, and a comparatively simple app to support (and with me having no access to the source), it's just not challenging enough to be interesting. So, erm, aren't I supposed to be senior engineering staff? Why am I doing support work? I get the feeling that I'm employed just in case something really bad happens, and the rest of the work is just there to fill the time when things are working.
Fortunately I've been offered the chance to escape into a development role. Sure it's going to mostly be PHP, and yes it's a pay-cut, but I'm actually hoping that I might finally be making a good employment choice. That'll be a first.
I start at the new place on the 12th April, however I've actually only got 3 working weeks left as I'm off skiing for 3 weeks before then.
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