Know your ‘enemy’

I have been working in my new workplace for about a week now. and as far as i can say this place is very nice. its a small software company with some history. it have a friendly set of coworkers, the polices are fine(except the fact that the working hours are from 9am – 6pm, i would like it to be 8-5 ratehr), there are so many ‘treats’(where people get to eat stuff that will make em fat ), the salary is fine. and the location is ok too. so this is pretty much the ideal workplace right… hehe you ask me! well there is something that annoys me a lot. its not about the people there or anything like that. its with the way they do ‘work’;)

for whatever things that they do they use microsoft products for that!!!! oh shit! for everything… they blindly use micorsoft products for everything for every purpose. with out considering alternatives. and this is just sooooo annoying for a linux fan like me!(yeah i admit it i am a fan! and hey whats wrong with it? lol i am happy that i am! but don’t get me wrong i am not a ‘fanboy’ rather i am a fan i really really like the idea of FOSS and open source… wow… its one of the best thing ever!)

And i have to learn all that microsoft stuff… i have to learn dot net and not java i have learn sql server and not mysql… oohh… this is bad… but hey i am still learning stuff… and i think i have been away form all this MS stuff for a long time and i have almost forgot how much they suck… and now that i am working with em again i feel what i really have in linux… the way they think is very different… i mean it its so different. when u compare the philosophies they are so far away from each other(but kinda da same too in ways… )

So for now i’ll have to learn dot net + MS SQL server + alll the compact stuff… hmmm not bad i will ‘learn’ anyways… and they do pay me for that. and btw i am getting the feeling of a programmer lol! its nice been one… at least the way you start to think of stuff , is very nice… its logical… and kinda cool. u have a problem n a solution kinda view for most of the stuff that meets your eye when u r a programmer… I am also happy that now i am more aware of ‘time’… as i kinda lack it… after the job there is little time left… so i feel how important time is..

i might just be more ‘activated’… just because i have to work with MS stuff… as i don’t feel so happy about it i can always use that ‘urge’ i get to develop something ‘open’… during the midnight

haaa… god i believe in u

My First Job Interview

Yeah, i went to my first ever job interview. and it was ok! as far as i can remember i though job interviews are some hard to go through, painful, stressful experiences… but when i look back at what i had in my first thing it was not true. i was kinda comfortable with the people conducted the interview. there were two people. one senior programmer and someone… and of course they asked me all the questions… the normal ones… the ones you expect in a modern day interview… i just felt it when they ask me… in some(mostly all) questions… they were questioning something with out really directly asking me about it. its like they ask a question about something, and then when i answer it they determine my qualities or they just get answers to there hidden questions i think they do check all the attitudes, goals that i may have and all that… and i think i just made them feel that i am a hacker(as seen on TV!)/anti MS, linux lover/BT ratio cheater!/ person with no goals lol hehe… i knew it! i knew that i am getting my marks cut or i am getting minus marks when i was telling stuff… which was the plain truth. i should have hidden some stuff and let more positive ones out… so that they will think of me in a positive way… and may hire me…

No need to lie… i had a few dreams of the office… the workplace… and how i would work there… lol hehe… it was fun… but i know work is not always fun!!! hehe…

It was not only the interview… after the interview they asked me to come and sit for a written exam. and they told me that it is IQ and common knowledge…etc.. so i didn’t refresh ma memory on programming… system analysis… etc but when i sat for the exam… and red the paper… i just knew that i was kinda screwed lol… it asked me to draw a ERD.. and then write some SQL queries… dude… lol… how the fuck am i suppose to know that this is IQ!!! LOL may be they though that programmers should know these stuff… like normal people know other(normal IQ) stuff…

Any ways it was not all programming/theory questions… there were some IQ stuff… and i answered them… i guess they was correct… i mean my answers… i don’t know… i am not sad about the whole first job interview of mine… its good. i think now i can face the second one with a lot of confidence than my first one…

but… i am still young and why the fuck i am going to a job right now… may be i should do more certs… and gain more qulifications… and have some more fun… ! (that was a another question that came up in the interview )…