{"id":7,"date":"2020-10-10T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/?p=7"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:49:02","slug":"try-not-to-get-burned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/2020\/10\/10\/try-not-to-get-burned-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Not To Get Burned Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I woke up at 8am yesterday, got dressed, sat down at my desk and got to work. Before I knew it, it was pitch black out 10 o&#8217;clock at night and I hadn&#8217;t eaten. This is fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spent the bulk of the day working on stats homework, writing a probability calculator in R which I have decided is the worst &#8216;programming&#8217; language ever invented. Arrays are indexed at 1, member fields and functions of their janky class implementations are accessed with a &#8216;$&#8217;, dots; which usually access member fields, actually are just interpreted as an arbitrary name, builtin functions have no naming convention consistency either; mixing camelCase, smashedtogetherfunctionnames, and their confusing dot.access.names(&#8216;why?&#8217;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work in October dried up due to my primary client running out of budget for the quarter, sidelining several big upgrades I had in the works; and we were between contracts on another big client I was going to be added to. First week of school, old client pops up out of nowhere, an internal project finally gets some movement, new client starts on-boarding, and I get asked to build some packages for a repo and address some issues on their projects. Cool, but where was this energy last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guess I should talk about the project, since I&#8217;m here. Got in touch with my group mates and we met. I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about my team. I&#8217;m a little scarred from my last nightmare group project I wrote 90% of the code for (confirmed by github analytics). These people seem very smart and proactive, so I&#8217;m going to do my best to keep up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I emailed our sponsor as soon as the contact information was sent out, then again the next day, then my group mates emailed as well; only to wake up to an announcement from our professor saying the class isn&#8217;t being proactive enough and it&#8217;s unprofessional. Probably not talking about us specifically, but still. Since we haven&#8217;t been able to get a hold of our sponsor, and the project page is short and vague; my writing assignment may be a brain dump of speculative nonsense but you work with what you&#8217;ve got. Try not to get burned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 8am yesterday, got dressed, sat down at my desk and got to work. Before I knew it, it was pitch black out 10 o&#8217;clock at night and I hadn&#8217;t eaten. This is fine. Spent the bulk of the day working on stats homework, writing a probability calculator in R which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwareengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}