I am getting a little bored at work. Today was such a day. I am waiting for Tech Ops on an item that is stopping me to make further progress. Plus, there is not much other type of work that we’re doing.
I think I have to become more proactive. I have to start looking for things to improve. I have to start looking and find things that we can fix. If we cannot do that, then we will not have anything that we strive to fix.
Am I doing a good job being a manager?
I don’t think so. At least not yet. I have a hard time jump starting one of the collegeues that is under me. Actually, I am ready to fire him. But before we can do that, we have to find 2 other new guys. The problem with that? There are not many good guys available. When somebody shows up, he usually finds something else. It’s not easy to be a manager in this type of IT field now. It’s easy to find a good job, but not easy to find a good programmer. Things should improve with a market downturn, if it happens.
I have to spend more time learning. I am going to shift my hours to come in at 9:30am. When I start at 8:30, I just cannot finish anything at home. I don’t have enough time. I have to read for at least an hour every day. I had trouble waking up for the past several days. I have to adjust that.
I am learning EJBs. I think the whole EJB developments might actually be too difficult. It’s easy to create a Stateless session bean, but the client is not so easy. It’s difficult if you are trying to do it from an external client.