Gloom and Doom at the Workplace

The company was acquired by a private fund and, after the
stock vesting was accelerated early this year, many chose to                                                 
leave. Four new engineers, including me, joined around Jan                                                   
2017. At the time of writing, only yours truly was left.

Jumping ship is normal in Silicon Valley and I have done my                                                  
share (four jobs in eight years). Over time, however, my                                                     
zest in finding a great new job has died. Looking back, I                                                    
have come to America, survived, and settled. Although work
is still important and I still give it my best, I have arrived at                                                    
a point where I start to renounce the version of success the                                                 
world has fed me and set out to define my own.

Near product release, we have been snowed under with bugs,                                                   
software defects made during coding. Although my code was                                                    
not particularly buggy, I have been assigned more than half                                                  
of the urgent ones.                                                                                          

I own up to bugs from my code, when they inevitably appear,                                                  
but they don't represent me. I compliment my colleagues, try                                                 
to understand, joke about my mistakes, and I don't feel
ashamed at all. (As grandma used to scold me: 沒皮沒臉.)                                                 
As I see it, errors are information, small doses of failure are                                                      
essential for the system to be anti-fragile, and the bugs are                                               
part of the game. They have a right to be here.                                                                                

Under urgent issues blocking the release, I have slept very                                                  
well this weekend and lost weight. Thank You!

[7grizzly]

回複 '暖冬cool夏' 的評論 : Thanks for reading and your comments. Indeed, we are just back from fishing/crabbing in SF ;-)

While waiting for the catch, I read Seneca who said: "The primary indication of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company." This seemed to encourage me to keep at it!

[暖冬cool夏]

Great! As people always say, "a job is a job. It's a way to pay for a living, but that's it. Don't let it define your happiness (and success). You work to live, not live to work." Enjoy your time with Tim, with reading, and with physical (and mental) training!