Archive for June, 2009
A Burnt Out Programmer
Well, here we go. I guess this is my story. If there were one thing worthwhile that was going to come out of this blogging thing, this would be it. So listen up. Also, disclaimer: chances are, if you’re reading this, you probably know at least a few people from this story. I do not mean to insult or belittle or judge anyone in the story. It is purely as I perceived them, and how I felt AT THE TIME.
About three years ago, I was working for this company ‘A’. I had been working for this company for more than 4 years by then, which was also my first full-time employer.
At first, I really enjoyed it. Colleagues were good, the boss was really good, the work was interesting, and I got recognition for the work I did. Also, the money was good. I really had very little to complain about.
Then slowly but surely, I got sick of maintaining the same software month after month. Who wouldn’t? So I asked the boss-man that I be given something new to work on. He was most accommodating, and I was given a new product to develop and a whole new team (which I quickly populated with my close friends) to build something completely new, from scratch. I was ecstatic. It was tremendous amount of fun, while it lasted.