Iamthefallen's Journal: Career choices, and other stuff

I've mentioned before that we're looking at hiring another person. This will change my duties somewhat. I'll do less front end and more back end/sysadmin/DBA stuff. I'm all for this, but I have a couple of reservations. I don't want to move away from .Net development, it's essential IMHO to keeping my skills up to date. I also don't want to drift into user support, which is a real risk in a small company like this. If you're the sysadmin, you're the guy who configures switches one day, and turns keyboards upside down to shake out the crumbs the next.

I don't mind wearing the DBA hat, it's something that I enjoy. But I don't want to hang up my developer hat just yet either. My preferred role would be as technical lead developer/architect where I can be involved with the development efforts, but I'm not the one dropping controls on a form. I want to be in a position where management decides what needs to be done, while I decide how to do it and make it happen. I want to be in a position where I research questions to come up with solutions, not just implementing a quick workaround.

On feeling the pressure:
Has anyone looked at Firehose? How lame and useless is that.

On intra-marital TMI journal wars:
When you take out a title loan, you have to pay the lender back, even if you invested the borrowed money to turn a profit. While the loan goes unpaid, the lender holds your assets and interest builds up quickly. I'm not circuit city, I don't do interest free 'til 2008 deals.

On Vegas baby:
3 more working days, maybe 2, gonna see if I can take Friday off to get everything together, then it's off to Vegas for a week.

On death:
Posting in Sol's journal yesterday made me stop and think a bit about the dead. I realized that my friends death led to a long period of introspection for me. That introspection took me to a certain chat room in the summer of 1999, I met Tammy there the same fall. Funny that.