https://www.thesamosborne.com/tags/work/ Recent content in Work on thesamosborne Hugo en Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:34:03 +0700 https://www.thesamosborne.com/posts/first-dev-job/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:34:03 +0700 https://www.thesamosborne.com/posts/first-dev-job/ <p>** <em>This post didn’t really take shape like I was hoping. I might come back later and rearrange it to be more coherent, but as it currently stands it is an imperfect combination of memoir/note to former self/love letter to my workplace.</em> ¯\<em>(ツ)</em>/¯</p> <p>I would have never hired myself. Bless the people who threw me a bone and let me learn to be a programmer at their expense.</p> <p>After sophomore year of my CS program, I was looking around for a job that would put my years (two is still plural) of programming &ldquo;experience&rdquo; to work. I thought that by going to school and half paying attention in my classes that counted as experience. I was wrong. The first two years of college did not at all prepare me to work on a real dev team as I would soon find out.</p>