.. signs of intelligence .. .. er..must it be human intelligence? .. nevermind. put that as checked.
Well. it would appear from general indications, I survived my first week at work. Am starting to feel the onset of the first "project start" stress, especially when I'm touching the sacred cows of the department. I'm examining legacy stuff to see what can be improved and how we can optimize existing components.
Now, such a task is normally not difficult: its generally empirical: you can observe the inefficiencies and bottlenecks, the questionable things could be singled out for examination. But what makes its stressful is that a misjudgement could actually add on to the list of problems which it already has.
Its a hard decision between "don't fix what ain't too badly broken" and "professional pride". And I'm always a sucker for challenges. If its hard and "it can't be done", let me have it. I'll usually succeed in it or make an awful idiot out of myself.
In the meantime, the initial bout of homesickness, the flu + tummy bug, stress and questions had gotten to me. I had a hard round with depression and had to "keep on keeping on". I have to keep reminding myself that I am not exactly helpless and there is always hope.
To help ease the situation, I've placed the following picture as my computer desktop picture. With a wee bit of fantasy, I could actually imagine that I'm back on vacation on that nice beach..
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