Before... when I was normal
Friday, September 22, 2006
Once upon a time... I was a systems analyst and project manager. I had designed and implemented client/server applications, written all SQL you could think about in DB2 and Oracle, written Cobol code (arrrrggggggg) and had fights with the people in production and the DBA (everyone hates DBAs!). I was a friend of my colleagues and most of my users, and we used to go out often to drink, to drink or to drink.
A perfect life. I had one dream though. This client/server thingy was getting boring
so I looked for others things to do and I found Business Intelligence, Data warehousing and OLAP. I proposed my boss to design a BI system for the university so I could play with all these nice graphic tools (much nicer than microfocus!). See picture: Screenshot of PowerPlay v5.21 by Cognos. (A rather old version but it is the only one I have. Also you may note that I use Windows 98, cos it's the only O.S that my 64Mb RAM Laptop can use :( ... I need a new laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Back to the story. I woke from my dream and dropped my job. I came to the UK and studied a PhD. Now I don't develop software anymore and don't play with nice tools. Instead I write things like:
"The interpretive epistemology addresses the world from "the point of view of
the people studied" (Hammersley, 1992). Beliefs about the external world being a "product of the mind" (Williams and May, 1996) play an important role. Since the world is constructed in peoples' consciousness, including researchers' minds, the concern is on the "meanings that people give to their environment, not the environment itself" (May, 1997)."
A perfect life. I had one dream though. This client/server thingy was getting boring
so I looked for others things to do and I found Business Intelligence, Data warehousing and OLAP. I proposed my boss to design a BI system for the university so I could play with all these nice graphic tools (much nicer than microfocus!). See picture: Screenshot of PowerPlay v5.21 by Cognos. (A rather old version but it is the only one I have. Also you may note that I use Windows 98, cos it's the only O.S that my 64Mb RAM Laptop can use :( ... I need a new laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Back to the story. I woke from my dream and dropped my job. I came to the UK and studied a PhD. Now I don't develop software anymore and don't play with nice tools. Instead I write things like:
"The interpretive epistemology addresses the world from "the point of view of
the people studied" (Hammersley, 1992). Beliefs about the external world being a "product of the mind" (Williams and May, 1996) play an important role. Since the world is constructed in peoples' consciousness, including researchers' minds, the concern is on the "meanings that people give to their environment, not the environment itself" (May, 1997)." ------------------------------
My only concern is that all of the above was only a product of my mind, constructed in my consciousness... hmmm, don't mind me, I'm in some crazy mood so I write crazy things ...
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HA HA HA!!! It's funny when u put it like that. All those lovely graphic tools were just a product of your consciousness...they may not actually have existed! The word Schizophrenia comes to mind??? [:-\]
bueno mamacita... q t puedo dcir... normal normal nunca has sido... jajaja.. mentira chechi... sabes q siempre t voy a fastidiar... pero lo q si t voy a decir siempre es q antes y ahora, has sido y eres una muy buena profesional, solo q ahora con muchas mas experiencias, con muchos mas conocimientos y con un abanico muy grande de posibilidades de desarrollo laboral... asi q deja eso d "era normal cuando era analista y jefe d proyectos" q ahora estas en otra area diferente y quizas mucho mas interesante solo q no t has dado cuenta... asi q date tpo q poco a poco vas a encontrarle el gustito...
ya t escribi... leelo...
definitivamente t va a costar el cambio en el q estas... pero date tiempo y con calma y buen humor... y encontrandole el gustito a las cosas vas a ver todo esto mucho mas claro...
Life is a Matrix.
The Matrix is a separate objective entity that rules your actions and thoughts.
Normal until when?
As chata says, you have another world in front of you. Not that of epistemologies, but of someone who has a different view about software development.
God bless the bloggers!
JR
excuse me, when were YOU normal???