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I don't want to work...
Mar. 21st, 2017 01:51 pm...I just want to browse Youtube vids of cookie decorating all day.*
I'm a software developer; give me something new you want the software to do, or something the software is doing that it shouldn't, and I will make it work. However, currently I'm running about 25% developing, 75% QA (quality assurance, the testing part to make sure that what was desired is what's actually happening), to help support the beleaguered QA part of my team. I like my team a lot, and I want us to succeed, and I'm fine with helping out from time to time. BUT. This QA thing is getting old, especially because their QA tests, which I'm supposed to be able to follow along from step to step to test out changes, are written for QA people, and not developers moonlighting as testers.
You know those writing exercises in school where you had to describe a mundane activity in detail, like making a PB&J, and your classmates would then act out the steps exactly as you had written them? I was the only one who listed every piece without missing anything, because that's how my mind works. So I find it irritating to trip on missing steps in these QA tests. It would help my flow and my state of mind to be able to make it all the way through a test without having to go back to QA multiple times on what they neglected to note, or worse yet, what's absolutely wrong.
Thus, the cookie decorating videos. It's so damned soothing and satisfying to watch that level of competence porn in action, plus it lulls me into a state of "That looks so simple! I should be doing that." I'm hosting Easter for the extended family, and I have visions of exquisitely decorated cookies impressing them all...which I should just give up on now, because I know me, and I'll be doing well if the bare basics of the meal are ready to go when it's time to eat. The decorating supplies lurking in the basement are still calling to me, though...
*With apologies to Todd Rundgren for breaking the scansion of his lyrics, and laughing at the same time, because the Emperor plays percussion in band and has resisted practicing all week while home on Spring Break. He emphatically does not want to bang on the drum all day.
I'm a software developer; give me something new you want the software to do, or something the software is doing that it shouldn't, and I will make it work. However, currently I'm running about 25% developing, 75% QA (quality assurance, the testing part to make sure that what was desired is what's actually happening), to help support the beleaguered QA part of my team. I like my team a lot, and I want us to succeed, and I'm fine with helping out from time to time. BUT. This QA thing is getting old, especially because their QA tests, which I'm supposed to be able to follow along from step to step to test out changes, are written for QA people, and not developers moonlighting as testers.
You know those writing exercises in school where you had to describe a mundane activity in detail, like making a PB&J, and your classmates would then act out the steps exactly as you had written them? I was the only one who listed every piece without missing anything, because that's how my mind works. So I find it irritating to trip on missing steps in these QA tests. It would help my flow and my state of mind to be able to make it all the way through a test without having to go back to QA multiple times on what they neglected to note, or worse yet, what's absolutely wrong.
Thus, the cookie decorating videos. It's so damned soothing and satisfying to watch that level of competence porn in action, plus it lulls me into a state of "That looks so simple! I should be doing that." I'm hosting Easter for the extended family, and I have visions of exquisitely decorated cookies impressing them all...which I should just give up on now, because I know me, and I'll be doing well if the bare basics of the meal are ready to go when it's time to eat. The decorating supplies lurking in the basement are still calling to me, though...
*With apologies to Todd Rundgren for breaking the scansion of his lyrics, and laughing at the same time, because the Emperor plays percussion in band and has resisted practicing all week while home on Spring Break. He emphatically does not want to bang on the drum all day.
