Started a new job after taking the risky decision of leaving the previous secure one. This first week went very well! The team is super welcoming (and similarly introverted), passionate and healthy (compared to my previous toxic manager). I feel like I’m going to learn a lot, without burning myself, and it’s very exciting :)

Me when checkout is at 12:00

If you identify yourself to your work outcome it sucks your soul, but if you don’t you become nihilistic so it’s all about finding the balance. More seriously it depends a lot on team/project/management but mostly you gotta really like troubleshooting, translating requirements+caffeine into code and defend/discuss your decisions. Working on a fresh clean codebase tends to be much more satisfying.

Just noped out of my last job cos the new manager was randomly calling me without a heads up to understand what the next steps are. Aka asking me and the other team member to do his work for him. I see highly competent people struggling to find jobs and guys like this in F500 companies — and can’t help but wonder what’s wrong with selection.

What about decaf? Or is it the caffeine’s effect more than the taste that’s enjoyable?