a job that slowly kills you? (not me)

April 25, 2001, 06:47 am

Crazy... I can't belive the school semester is practically over. I only have finals in Logic and Database and they should be easy. Then I'll have my summer class to enjoy... :(

Work has been very enjoyable lately. Since I am spending more time at work and less at school, I can actually get things done (imagine that)! I was really productive today: I made a bunch of fixes on several sites and I wrote this nifty proposal for the construction of a new user management tool for SMI NOW. Previously, I wrote some php pages for them to do creditcard verification and member adding mojo... it kinda sucks because it was the first project I ever did by myself. And they have been using this crappy user management tool that some jerk wrote in perl and the whole thing is a nasty kluge... it uses flattextfiles for its database (yuck). So I'm going to build them a real tool with php and MySQL. I'm psyched because I'll get to fix a lot of the horrible mistakes I made when I built the first project... (I always cringe whenever I have to deal with it)

Kurt, my boss, and I were the last to leave the office (and daisy too) today. As we were walking down the stairs, kurt asked me to remind him sometime about a raise. I've been working for him for almost a year and, if I could afford it, would pay him to work at ITD, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. The company's future is a bit rocky and I don't know if I feel comfortable getting more money for what I do...