What's mildly irritating you today?

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Perry Winkle

I'm going to get fired. I'm having major motivational problems. I'm not doing incompetent work, just very little work at all.

There are no better prospects in this one horse town, and we have a lease that we can't get out of until next October.

Upside: I'm making epic progress on my own personal projects, but they probably won't bear enough fruit to put food on the table for another 6-12 months.

What kind of work are you doing?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Aren't you paying attention, he's growing fruit.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

What kind of work are you doing?

Really shitty enterprise software in the Justice/Court System domain. Basically a lot of "systems integration" instead of programming. For the foreseeable future, I'm writing exchanges for brokerages (e.g., make the police department and the court's systems talk to each other).

It's not programming. I end up writing 300 lines of code and 10,000 lines of XSLT, and spend hours futzing with XML configurations.

I'd leave, but I've already switched jobs twice this year (made a huge upgrade in jobs, but they started missing payroll and I moved to the place I'm at now). Won't have a choice, if I get fired.