I got a promotion last week and this is my first day with the new responsibilities. I began by calling in sick. Half a day of extra sleep did me a lot of good, and now – wow, is there ever a lot to do. There’s a schedule to write, a dev position to fill, all kinds of status information to collect, and on top of that all my existing bugs to fix. I don’t expect to have much free time for the next month or two.
It’s exciting, though. I can use a new challenge at work. I have a bunch of new skills to learn if I am going to pull this off successfully.
This is going to be my lowest-key Burning Man ever. I had already decided to cancel all but a few partially-finished sewing projects, and now I’m thinking about abandoning those, too. I can always just scoop a bunch of clothes into a bin and sort it out when I get there, and my existing arsenal of blinky laser toys should be entirely adequate. I just had so many new ideas I wanted to try… oh well, there’s always next year.
Congratulations on your promotion! Is this the position you developed and pitched a while back, or something new?
Comment by j like juliet e like echo november november alpha — August 13, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
It’s actually something even bigger – basically I am a technical PM now, which means I have a team to manage *and* code to write. This does mean that I will have less time to focus on coding, but I am OK with that if it means I can delegate more of the “grunt work” and spend my remaining coding time on the really hard/interesting stuff.
Comment by mars — August 13, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
Your first act should be to hire me as the new docs writer. :)
Comment by Brad Rhine — August 13, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
Congrats
Basically hire someone as the new doc writer , even Brad :)
Comment by norm — August 13, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
That’s awesome, Mars. You’ve earned the responsibility (not to mention the cash) and are really looking in the right direction to grow, for both yourself and your company, by delegating and focusing on more sophisticated work. I admire your commitment.
Comment by The Queen of All the Surface Streets — August 14, 2007 @ 6:10 am
Thank you.
Comment by mars — August 15, 2007 @ 10:37 pm
Hi Mars! Congratulations! You Rock! :D
Comment by Christian — August 16, 2007 @ 8:18 pm