A Year of Work

Today marks exactly a year since I started working at "Info-Region" and started working at all — the 4 days at another firm don't really count as work (working as a programmer 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, for a salary of 1k UAH), since I was there without being officially registered and got nothing for those days.

The time flew by pretty fast, at times quite intensely; a lot happened over this period, and I gained a lot of experience, though there could have been even more. Maybe if someone experienced had been around, I'd have learned even more, but as it was I had to figure out almost everything on my own, which I like and am good at.

Yes, there was a crisis during this period, but it got resolved too. The web-programming work paid off; once I was made lead programmer I started picking up even more. I should count how many websites I made over this time — it'd come to about fifty, and I've probably already worked on a hundred. I haven't built anything big from scratch myself, I used ready-made solutions and modified them, since that's better than writing something buggy and non-working due to lack of experience. In the next working year that should change and I'll be able to design and make something of my own.

Looking back, I see that everything turned out fairly well, it could have been worse, and given where things stand, they're actually good; things outside my control helped a lot.