Am I Expanding My Knowledge Or Not?

Work and work and work again! Ok let's break our head today by doing self-assessment, don’t worry this one is formative it wont be carry anywhere. Ok, my first job as programmer was a great moment for me to expand my knowledge and my skills. Until today I consider my self as a person who like to know about new things. It's not to say that I'm a scientist but I just like to explore more knowledge. Ok back to the main topic, I'm keep asking myself everyday when I come to work everyday, what actually I have done, and is it improve my skill enough, what will be happen for the next 5 years if I keep doing this, what is the next task for me. Ok sorry for asking too much, but I always asking that for myself, and sometimes I just ignore those kind of question.

Ask yourself, and then we will drill our skill, that’s what my foster brother said. Because sometimes when I doing my work I said to myself “ini org yang tak tau IT pon boleh buat”. So what the hell is they need IT people to do this (because they want to give you money, you jerk!). Please, I’m not only capable of doing data extraction and updating others, hey I’m a programmer! I can do that ----this what I feel like to say to my boss. My work place its not a good place to learn programming, but if you want to know a little bit about account and insurance, yes! After a few months in this new company I feel that I’m not gaining my programming skill but a got knowledge in insurance accounting, OK that not so bad. But situation in this company just make me feel “boring, empty”. I feel like a call center person, because everyday there will be call from user, saying that they cannot do this and that. And then I will forward this issue to the vendor and they solve it. People say Programmer from India is good, talented, and cheap, hey boss!! please don’t forgot your own people in Malaysia, they capable too (This another problem we’ll talk about it later).

So, the moment I joint this company, I already not doing any programming, I lost my touch. Now this humble programmer doing a job like “mandur”. OK how about yours? You must be learning a lot of new things. If I stay here for another 5 years I hope I can be IT manager….hahhahah….this must be, because here I don’t even have to know the code, except if those vendor runaway. I currently try to push my self learn about another thing, maybe management, do we have to learn how to manage? If not management then I have to continue learn programming, mobile , games, application…whatever as long I have something to prepare for future. Until today I don’t know how much have I learned in this company.

They said, if we keep doing the same thing for a long time we would master it. Is it true? All I feel is boring. I’m just preparing myself, with all of this question inside my mind. Because I’m afraid if one day if I want to look for another jobs it will be harder than a fresh graduate looking for job. And looking for a new knowledge sometimes will help us in our carrier. Ok that it, lets take a part time class…..hehhehehehe.

* I want to improve my English, it seems my English not going anywhere for a long time.
* Nanti kalau aku dah terer baru buleh jadi boss. Hehehhehe.....bos!bos kuruss!!!!(remember this?).