My goal for creating this blog was to make Computer Science more relatable to everyone - especially to women. I feel like there may be some people out there who have just never even considered the field because they just never heard of it, or never knew anyone who was in it.
I feel I should approach this goal with a 3 prong approach:
Prong 1: Explain why I got into CS
Prong 2: Explain common misconceptions of CS
Prong 3: Be realistic about a software engineering career (both good and bad)
Why do people use the word "prong" for approach anyway? Whenever I hear that, I always think of this guy:
Of course, I used it too which makes me a hypocrite. Let's move on.
This is about prong #3: Being realistic about my job. I have said in previous posts that I love my job. I will most likely reiterate this fact later on. However, my job is not always a bed of roses. In fact, my previous job had many thorns sticking out of it.
I was eavesdropping on a meeting today (which is not hard to do when the conference room is actually just a table in the same room as all the cubes) and heard them talking about our department. They were discussing how there is really not that much process here. When you need to get something done, create a new bug for it, assign it to the manager and then he'll have someone work on it. Done!
This might sound pretty intuitive but my last company was not at all like this - and it's one of the things that drew me to my current company. I'll go into more detail about this at a later time, but right now, I feel these cards from Some e-cards really demonstrates how I felt about certain aspects of my job in my last company. Of course, some of these are exaggerations. Of course. (Warning for those at work: slight mature language below):
Yours,
