Many big companies see software as a necessary evil or necessary expense. A place like Apple or Google see software very differently so perhaps you should look at working for a different kind of company. It sounds like you are working in the banking, insurance, health care, or similar field.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Marco F. <[email protected]> wrote: > this may sound yet-another venting kind of post, and if it does sound like > that to you, please stop reading. sorry to waste time. > > if you're still here, good… i'll try not to wast too much of your time. > > i'm a java developer at a big international digital marketing firm. > i've been working here for 14 months now. > > before this, i was a java developer at another big and international > digital marketing firm. > worked there for 2 and half here. > > (before that, i worked for accenture for a short while. it was my first > job ever after university). > > i grew a lot (professionally) working for these 2 firms mostly from > "passing-by" mentor-workmates (was never enrolled a single course or > workshop or anything). > but i've always been the youngest (31) and so I was always on the > developer side rather than the architect one. fine. > > both companies seriously look the same when it comes to the > non-creative-fluffy-marketing work. > > i feel like i've been working on the same project! > it was either: > - the same old CMS (i dare you name one that's sleek, light and has a > great UI), > - soap-ws to allow third party to use our services and do stuff, > - (recently) a very nice RESTful application (it basically replace the > previous one). > > i tend to be a very active professional, so during these years, i've been > the one saying "hey let's try nosql!" or even "let's switch to logback" and > so on. > > success rate? zero. > > so lately i've been feeling very frustrated. > looks to me like tech dpt. of companies like these does not want to focus > on being innovative and one step ahead of the usual system integrators. > > i told my boss we should be focusing on doing cutting-edge stuff like > tweet-monitoring and social stuff integration or HTML5 craziness but what > did i get? "yeah sure…. now update those two users emails on production db > and check on that tomcat… we'll talk about that later". > > recently, i've been studying a lot on many different areas (tdd, agile, > responsive web design and so on). > all of this was done at home or stealing time from stupid (yes, i mean it) > tasks that could be automated but no one has ever asked my team to do. (we > seriously manually update users' emails) > > so i'm asking, is this a common situation in companies like these? > feels like when technology is not core-business (which is very arguably > the case, if you ask me) tech dpt. lack its necessary push to go forward. > > what's even worse is that tech guys dry out an die inside and so newcomers > only "normally interested" in what's going on like me end up like the only > luke skywalker at a star wars themed party. > > i have been contacted by so many consulting firms, but i do like hanging > around creative guys, producing stuff for the web and seeing the whole > structure. i'm sure these firms would push the pedal more on what i might > be doing (four letter: java) but i'm afraid i'll miss the photoshop layers > and hexadecimal colors. > > sorry to have bothered you. > > -m > > ps: the posse's always an inspiring thing. thank you guys. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com www.sellerstoolbox.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
