Well, I am still yet to meet one of the top bosses at work, but generally, I think I have settled in. There is a lot of reading to do however. I hope I can catch up, and eventually make myself useful. School work is very very far from what I am seeing in the industry.
Being a website developer and manager, did not expose me to the world of programming like I have seen since last week. And I am beginning to fear that my mother's analysis is true: I might get so engrossed in the job that I might start to neglect other parts of my life, namely family, fitness and Christianity - actually HER.
I thank God that I'm already on the journey of spiritual growth, and that I am in a fulfilling understanding relationship, cos I don't know if I would have created time for that after I get into the "groove" of the software industry.
APOLOGY: TO THOSE NOT IN THE COMPUTER SOFTWARE ARENA. SORRY FOR BORING YOU IN THIS POST. I PROMISE [TO TRY] NOT TO DO IT AGAIN.
About the car - well, I got a gift last December - a car, so to speak, a nice, tear-rubber (slang for brand new) car,and was so enthusiastic about it, but my license had expired since September, so I had to renew it. Over the past few weeks, my mum and brother have come up with every excuse imaginable as to my not driving the car, and I got sick of it yesterday. My license had arrived and the logical thing was to drive the car to church, right? Wrong answer for my mum. Eventually my aunts intervened and I got to take the car to an estate nearby. Practice does make perfect, cos I realize I lost touch. But the office is one and a half hours away by public transport, and the stress is draining, already. I have to drive my ride.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
NYSC: Finally got a job
I have finally gotten a job. In fact, I resumed on Thursday. And I was relieved, because the state director himself announced that if a corper was not posted by the second week of January, the person's file would be sent back to Abuja (head office) and remobilized (which means, reposted to another state, another job etc). I got posted in the second week. Thank God.
On resumption, i was woken up. Yes I mean figuratively, not literarily (gotcha, Xi!). I thought I had knowledge - a passing knowledge of some processes, until I was given a sound lecture on what technology is all about RIGHT NOW. I am still in the Jurassic era, and I shudder to think of all the sleepless nights ahead of me, while trying to catch up with the rest of the world.
I hope Vicky will not suffer for it - as in communication and everything, because, as I see it, no more late night calls for me.
God is my strength.
my most favorite slogan right now was stolen from Diamond Bank: Where you are going should look nothing like where you have been.
Think about it...
On resumption, i was woken up. Yes I mean figuratively, not literarily (gotcha, Xi!). I thought I had knowledge - a passing knowledge of some processes, until I was given a sound lecture on what technology is all about RIGHT NOW. I am still in the Jurassic era, and I shudder to think of all the sleepless nights ahead of me, while trying to catch up with the rest of the world.
I hope Vicky will not suffer for it - as in communication and everything, because, as I see it, no more late night calls for me.
God is my strength.
my most favorite slogan right now was stolen from Diamond Bank: Where you are going should look nothing like where you have been.
Think about it...
BIG CHUNK OF TIME: seven years
Where were you seven years ago? Well, I will tell you where i was. I was at a crossroads of some sort. i had just finished my high school education and didnt really know which way forward. It seemed i was going to be a daddy's girl and read medicine like he wanted me to. But I look back now and wonder how i would have turned out if I had.
As God would have it, I read Computer science - a course that i did not come in contact with until after my high school grad. I read it in a public university and ended up spending six years doing a four year course thanks to the incessant strikes and disruptions in our school calendar. Recently I went to my alma mater - Babcock University, for a visit.
It was so.....different. Everything had changed - the school, the university - everything! I didnt know anywhere anymore. i went with my brother, and it soon began to look like I was the prodigal personm, because it seemed at every five steps, i encountered my juniors from high school, who were in JSS1 when i was in SSS3 back then. And they all remembered me- said i hadnt changed, just added a bit of weight. It was a humbling experience. I dont know what I expected, but i didnt expect to feel so old and ancient, especially when I went to the high school compound, and realised that there had been a lot of changes. In fact, everything had changed.
This new year, I think i should include the past in my plans, that is, that i should also intend to make my mark, however small. Its funny how things are now - if not for two teachers left over from my time, i would have gone through the school unknown.
For you alumni reading this, pls spread the word to others here in Naija that i can't reach that next week friday and saturday are being observed as founder's weekend (remember? 26th of January?). Happy new year to you all once again!
As God would have it, I read Computer science - a course that i did not come in contact with until after my high school grad. I read it in a public university and ended up spending six years doing a four year course thanks to the incessant strikes and disruptions in our school calendar. Recently I went to my alma mater - Babcock University, for a visit.
It was so.....different. Everything had changed - the school, the university - everything! I didnt know anywhere anymore. i went with my brother, and it soon began to look like I was the prodigal personm, because it seemed at every five steps, i encountered my juniors from high school, who were in JSS1 when i was in SSS3 back then. And they all remembered me- said i hadnt changed, just added a bit of weight. It was a humbling experience. I dont know what I expected, but i didnt expect to feel so old and ancient, especially when I went to the high school compound, and realised that there had been a lot of changes. In fact, everything had changed.
This new year, I think i should include the past in my plans, that is, that i should also intend to make my mark, however small. Its funny how things are now - if not for two teachers left over from my time, i would have gone through the school unknown.
For you alumni reading this, pls spread the word to others here in Naija that i can't reach that next week friday and saturday are being observed as founder's weekend (remember? 26th of January?). Happy new year to you all once again!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)