{"id":94,"date":"2009-01-02T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-01-02T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:02:00","slug":"reflecting-on-half-a-year-of-writing-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/reflecting-on-half-a-year-of-writing-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on half a year of writing code&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been awhile since I just wrote code. &nbsp;In fact, I don&#8217;t actually remember the last time that was my job, day in and day out. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve written lots of code, but it hasn&#8217;t been my job, or at least not my sole job. &nbsp;As a CIO, I was expressly told NOT to write code or role up my sleeves. &nbsp;As a practice manager, it was a sign that I hadn&#8217;t put the right team in place. &nbsp;As a hobby? &nbsp;Ok, as a hobby its been fine.<\/p>\n<p>Seven months ago I quit my job. &nbsp;Six and a half months ago I started on a project for a friends company. &nbsp;Basically, I&#8217;m building a business process automation tool that allows complex and interdependent business processes to be mapped, and then automated with a focus on data management and statistical&nbsp;analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short? &nbsp;I get up, write python and javascript, test it, refactor it and generally do it again the next day.<\/p>\n<p>I absolutely love a few things about my job:<br \/>\n1) &nbsp;NO Politics at all.<br \/>\n2) &nbsp;Pay is decent.<br \/>\n3) &nbsp;Working from home is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I don&#8217;t like?<br \/>\n1) &nbsp;No Politics.<br \/>\n2) &nbsp;Pay is decent.<br \/>\n3) &nbsp;Working from home.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing surprising there I suppose. &nbsp;Just a few random thoughts to begin the year.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; The dog LOVES that I work at home!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been awhile since I just wrote code. &nbsp;In fact, I don&#8217;t actually remember the last time that was my job, day in and day out. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve written lots of code, but it hasn&#8217;t been my job, or at least not my sole job. &nbsp;As a CIO, I was expressly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-family","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqbc8-1w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}