work the last couple of days has been kind of exasperating and
frustrating. yesterday i spent most of the day working with our junior
developer solving some build problems he was having. i'm afraid i'm not
a good mentor. i'm too impatient. i can't stand stupid people. i know
that's mean and probably a lot of people consider me stupid too but
geez...most of the stuff we're doing isn't rocket science. maybe it's
not exactly trivial but it's definitely not rocket science. it always
amazes me how many people have poor problem solving skills. people will
take a cursory glance at an error message and will go off on some
completely unrelated tangent or they'll do some kind of a test that has
no hope whatsoever of narrowing down what could be causing the problem.
at times like this the song "here's your sign" by jeff foxworthy,
travis tritt and bill engvall is a comfort. ;)
today was stressful for a different reason though. i was in pretty much
an all day meeting. this wasn't a planned meeting. it was one of those
impromptu things that came up when the scope on our project started
getting out of control. meetings are no fun anymore. it used to be i
could sit back and just listen (at my old job) now i'm looked to for
guidance and for my opinion on how things should be designed.
gotta go...more later...