Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Breather

just when i thought that my time has come to take a breather, work just comes right smack at my face. i've always been someone who prefers to work alone on projects and all. Partly because of my personality, i've never been a big fan of working in a team like it's a mass orgy and also partly because i can't really work with people that i don't have a measure of their capabilities.
i'm neither sizing people up before i work with them nor i think that i am a person of exceptional capabilities. i just need to know that people can work on their and solve their own problems. resorting to asking only when they've really hit a wall, at least when it comes to work. some people might find this trait of mine extremely hard-ass, but i always feel that it's a part of self development if you can solve your own problems instead of approaching the person with the solution straight.
talk can be really cheap when working in the team, people talk a lot during discussions, sharing their ideas, occasionally at the expense of someone else having to work extra hard once they manage to push through their ideas. it's funny how people will end up not working on the idea that they try so hard to push through and instead make other people do it for them. i'm not saying that one has to work on their ideas if they suggest it, it's just that if you're very pushy on a certain idea, it's probably an unspoken rule that you should personally see it through.
at this point of time, you might think that i'm a very tough person to work with. contrary to what you think, all i ask for is initiative but at the same time, a laid back mentality. ironic, it may seem, i think this is a pretty good trait to have. imagine having an uptight team member breathing down your neck every other day to check on your progress. not too cool eh?
my point is that if you want to be high strung and try to contribute a lot of ideas, you better be doing some work and show some result quick. it's not very nice to push your ideas through at other people's expense.
this semester has been pretty tough if you ask me, all the late nights working on codes that seem as alien to me as it was to my team members, sometimes i think people just need to try. this coming from me, it's not saying a lot obviously, since i was never the smartest kid on the block. its just that i bother to suck it up and take whatever was coming. its all part of learning.
despite all the work that i've been put through (together with peian), we agreed that the moment we get through this, we'd be the eventual winners. for as much work that we've been subjected to (for the iphone & roomba project), we really gain a lot from all these things. it'd actually be useful even after we're done and the weird thing is that we're actually feeling kind of happy doing all these, less the burn out that we're suffering right now.
on a lighter note, we've managed to cook up an iphone application which has the potential to be put up in the iTunes App Store after we're done with it. more of this when the semester is over and we start redeveloping the application to prepare it for the App Store.
got to suck it up and push through till the end of the semester. light at the end of the tunnel, i can catch a glimpse of it already.

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posted by egomy at 11/04/2009 03:27:00 AM 0 comments