All is Well
March 09, 2005 @ 01:31 AMThe eruption was a little exciting yesterday, but being in Seattle I was too far away to see it. It was visible from Portland, as I mentioned earlier, and other areas. Mount St. Helens is about 3 hours south-southeast of Seattle and 1 hour north-northeast of Portland or so.
Work Work has been interesting. The two companies we were counting on to go live have backed out, and we’re trying now to switch gears and finish up all the required functionality for another customer, in hopes that they will go live within a few months. We’ve apparently now scaled back our goals to 4 customers a year. Furthermore, I just found out that we have contractually obligated ourselves to BEA WebLogic for the foreseeable future. I don’t understand why business people make technical decisions. Plus, to exacerbate matters, they’ve apparently been lying to me for the last year and a half. They’ve been offering little teasers of switching to an open-source application server soon, and now that we have the time to do it, they drop the contractual obligation bombshell.
Whatever.
Also, I got cut from consideration for a specific job in Portland yesterday. We’ll call it Company W. They, of course, claim that my background is “compelling” but that they don’t have any positions suitable for my goals. Which I understand.
I do have to wonder if not having my 4-year degree is going to get in the way. But, I could either have a 4-year degree right now and less than a year of experience, or I can have the 4 1/2+ years of experience I have now. That was a decision I had to make, and I chose the experience. Right or wrong? That remains to be seen. I’m definitely a BETTER developer now for having gone the route that I did.. it’s a question of being a more attractive candidate.