Work

[godream]

Imagine you have been hired to wrestle grizzly bears. You're cool by that, because you've wrestled polar bears before and it's about the same thing. You in fact practically have a degree in bear wrestling. So you show up to work and spend your first day figuring out the differences between the white fur and the brown fur and start getting some basic bears wrestled.

Then you come in on day 2 (which is very much a Monday) to be informed that from now on you will be wrestling tigers instead. And all you've heard from many wise wrestlers is that tigers have very, very sharp claws. And your boss says, not visibly joking, "That looks pretty straightforward, right?"

*headdesk*

Comments

[godream.livejournal.com]

Dude, your school actually gives you real languages? All our interesting classes are in Scheme. :p Sass aside, you make a good point, and it's always nice to have company in the wait-what-am-i-doing-now? boat.

Nevertheless the tigers-have-sharp-claws part makes me nervous -- by which i mean in non-metaphor that everyone I know who's had to work on this stuff (bar one person) thinks it's an enormous pain and possibly more trouble than it's worth.

I did find out today that we've got a support contract that will happily answer some of my questions, though. Which is very cool and I wish I'd thought to ask about it on Monday...