What does a typical day sound like?
Alarm Goes off – Star Wars III theme plays
Robotic alarm: “Wake up, it is now 6:55am, you have work at 7am, you will be late”
Developer: “Aarrgh, another day at the computer. Might as well make that money”
That’s how my day starts almost every day – waking up late for a long day at the computer – actually, minus the Star Wars III theme music. LOL!
My day continues with breakfast at the local street vendor, on the way into work. And then it’s a couple quick ‘good mornings’ leading straight to head down, eyes focused, reading 50 emails from the day before and ‘eager-eager’ workers who send emails at 6am. If morning questions from testers don’t come, it’s off to the 9am status meeting. After a morning filled with meetings, it’s off to lunch with colleagues.
Coming back from lunch, I can usually get some time to perform the daily Facebook/Twitter updates, Google search, CNN News reads, ESPN article reads, and other web techie sites….(Pause) Now notice, this can be, for some an hour, and for others 3 hours. For me – I plead the fifth, it varies. LOL. Ending the day, if it’s a Thursday, it’s a nice day ($ :-)). But if it’s another day, it ends with sending status reports on projects I am assigned to and looking at the clock worrying if to leave early or on time.
You see, having a career as a software developer has its ups and has its downs. Waking up early to enter corporate America; wearing the traditional business casual attire; Sitting in the grey cubicle filled with some family pictures and famous World of Warcraft III action figures; Morning-Midday-Afternoon meetings; multiple projects at one time; Web surfing for about 3 hours a day; Playing with iPhone and Android software; nice pay check every 4th night…
It’s a rough job, but as easy as you want to make it. It’s an aggressive job but as relaxing as you make it. It’s a demanding job, but when the supply is high, and the demand is high, being a software developer is a GOOD THING.
As a Software Developer, I coordinate the production of software products for an established Insurance Agency. For example, a project that I am currently working on is about 50% of my allotted work time. The other two make up the next 50%. I am working on a project where one application has to send data to another application thru an internal Web Service. It has never been done before with these applications, so I (the team) have to design the entire thing, with the guidance of the solutions architect. Through this project, we follow the SDLC – Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, and Post validation / Review. The other projects include providing service level management and guidance to teams bringing project to production. It involves providing the right amount of documentation for existing and future users of our software and hardware.
Next, I get to fly a spaceship to the moon *grinning, smiling, hand flailing with exhilaration*……. NOT.
Next, it’s on to another software driven project, and the next one… and the next one… next one… next one…………………
Until’ next time,
Jabari Hall, IT Software Developer
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This might just be the best post The Social Climb has EVER had 🙂
I think this person has no idea on what an average “office” day entails for a software developer.
We would love to read your take on what the average “office” day is…getting diverse accounts on these things is great for us reading them