After 5 pages application document, now I need to prepare a detail report of database migration from Lotus Approach to Oracle. Apparently, my google skill didn’t help me enough this time. My boss, a generally really nice man came to me and said:” I don’t want this old technology to stay with us anymore. I want the report as detail as possible and I don’t care if it’s 50 pages or longer.” Great, I can hardly get 50 effective searching results from Google and it’s a stub on Wikipedia. Really great, Jesus Christ.
I have no experience with Lotus, not a little bit, which is not surprising. So far, none of the work I’m dealing with now is within the range of my “old” knowledge. I’m getting used to it while I’m slowly getting tired of this. Whenever I’m getting to know more about a subject I’m forced to move on to the next, which gives me no chance to master anything. This keeps me a beginner of everything and I can’t help to wonder, when, can I manage to learn something in depth and show some expertise at least once in my life?
Maybe this is the time: a 30 pages pure technical work term report (plus a 50 pages migration report). Less time to care about the stupid great firewall, less time to watch movies, less time to hangout with friends (or it couldn’t be less already), less time to fool around, less time to feel lonely, only more time to do research and prepare for the report(s). Sounds like the only thing that can make me excited or depressed right now. Maybe I’ll do a comparison between ASP.NET and Ruby on Rail, or maybe, I’ll just do the database migration report, it’s not set yet and I have 2 days to figure it out.
Why,on earth, don’t you ask me to migrate Lotus notes to oracle, instead of approach? That’ll make my life so much easier. Just at this moment do I realize that how meaningless it is to complain like a clueless 12-year-old girl, while as a matter of fact I’m 20 and I am getting paid to do some serious developing job. Sigh.
This is the real life after all. And I’m trying to enjoy it to the most, I have to remember.
