So R&D Thursday I was polishing off the suggested offerings by showing the state of it. Went too far, took to long and the guys were like why are you doing all this? I started before Greg gave the team an update about being lean, but finished it after that, so it looked even worse.…

Ben Plunkett has gone. Greg wants us to share the rotation. I dunno man (not without pay). Why should the employees cover out of hours to help achieve uptime with unknown benefits. No way they’ll offer of their own accord.

Went to Laracon with Armin and Greg Skerman speaking. Good conf, enjoyed it. I do get put into contrarian mode when I’m tired, or confronted with lies. Which lies? The little leftist, kind ones in this case Patima’s there are no differences between dog breeds talk, that’s just stereotypes, like racism. It’s smart people, engineers…

It’s funny hey. I did a little design tweak in a time gap and created my own ticket no one asked for. Ran it past Bosko first though. Rod got annoyed because I’m setting my own priorities when we have other tickets in the backlog, but Bosko commended me because he loved the initiative. I…

Here we go. Remember to mental shift from freelance to employee. So the job is a bit more all-encompassing as it provides my whole income. Some of the effort I used to put into freelance skills (essentially overtime) will now go to company things. That’s ok, because they’re paying me $100000 instead of the <$60000…

Getting pretty serious now. They’re about to come at me with a $96K offer for 4 days per week. I can do it. Let’s go. I asked for a 21 November start date. Don’t know how that’ll go. I really have to do Tax stuff too!

I’ve learned a lot, but I think I’m grinding when I’m a mid-level Dev in a senior position. Everything is hard when you’re not up to level. And the tech issues. Fucking hate them. Docker my dick.

Just issued second invoice. Let’s start to be a real pro. Regular invoices Consistent communication Faster work DEF = Discipline Equals Freedom