Work just got more interesting

When I started another developer had their last day.  I believe I was his replacement, more or less.
A few months ago (4? 5?) another developer left to go across the country; he gave no notice.  (really; he just left one day and told everyone he wasn’t coming back.)   A couple months after that, we hired a new guy.  Life was better, work got distributed.

Then it was announced the office secretary/ front line customer support/ general financial wiz lady was heading off for other opportunities…. in may.  So we’ve had a good 5 months to get someone to fill her role. (and the new lady is doing great)

Well, that new guy above?  He’s leaving… apparently, coding just isn’t his thing anymore.  I asked him about it and he said that he just doesn’t have any fun with it anymore, so he isn’t going to keep working in a field he doesn’t enjoy.  Great for him (his commute here was certainly a long one), but now work just got more interesting. I’m volunteering to take over one of his larger projects, and I get back the projects I’d handed off to him.  So life is going to be interesting in the near future.

2 comments

  1. It’s good that coding is your thing – means that the current situation is interesting and challenging, instead of unreasonable and horrid.

    I am SO glad you are in a place you like doing work you like. Even if it does get interesting (at a time when you’re in the middle of several other interesting transitions, which I know must be adding to the stress – even positive changes are stressful)