Fun fact of the day: I have “Teenage Wasteland” stuck in my head, and I can’t get rid of it.
Also, I think my division at work may be the only 3 people who aren’t managers of something. That’s just weird. Seriously, at every company meeting, two or three people end up becoming managers of some sort, even if there’s no one under them - they’re still managers.
I kind of want to switch to the MySQL team (newly-formed!). I worry I don’t have enough DBA-type experience with it, though, and can’t figure out how to bring up to my boss that yes, sure, having the company pay for me to take MySQL administration courses and get a certification are, in fact, job-related. Well, at least, not without making it really obvious that I want to switch to the MySQL team.
Is there a term for having a crisis of faith, but job-related? I’m not so sure software development is what I want to do for a living anymore. I still like it, it’s just that I think I like it more on my own terms.