Here I Am Again
Well, it seems just when you think everything is going right shit happens. Yes, it seems do to budget cutbacks my position has been eliminated. The rest of my remaining former contractor coworkers have to take 4+ weeks of vacation till the end of the year. I have again learned and grew in my current position and became a better developer because of my experiences. At least I left on a much better note this time and have excellent references from several supervisors.
The only thing bad I can say is who in there right mind would tolerate a 15% pay cut (vacation time amounted to the 15% cut). If I were my former coworkers I would start looking. It’s a insult and degrading to take such a pay cut.
On a positive note I purchased the Amazon Kindle 2 weeks ago and it has been enhancing my reading productivity. I have now become closer to reaching my goal of reading 50 books. I just completed my 1st truly technical book on my Kindle. The book is Oracle 11g For Dummies by Michael Wessler. Don’t let the For Dummies scare you it really is a complicated book on Oracle DBA stuff. I learned alot of cool stuff into the background of what Oracle DBA’s do which is something I was curious about. My goal is now 8% ( (100% / 50) * 4 Books) completed. Now I just have to finish the next 46 books and my goal will be achieved.
I also finally upgraded to Windows 7 awhile back and it’s by far the best Windows version yet. I can’t believe how slick it is. It’s stable as anything and it works better than any version I have seen.
Now things always happen for a reason and I’m sure this happened for a great reason.
Thursday, March 25th, 2010