Amadeus Einstein
Patron with Honors
I was very young when I joined staff and really hadn't had much experience of the "real world". Getting out was quite a culture shock, because there were so many areas of life that most people have got sorted by the time they hit their prime years which I had simply never had the time or money to do.
Getting a job wasn't that difficult, although there were things I unwittingly found myself doing that it quickly turned out weren't the way companies do business. Being expected to multi-task instead of one cycle at a time, lack of dev-t policies, interruptions, and presenting a body were irritating to me at first until I got used to it. Then I realised how much easier it is because people are all too willing to pitch in and answer questions/help you in areas that strictly belong to their colleagues.
Much has been said about SO members who didn't even possess a driver's licence until they got out. I had become so accustomed to trotting up and down to the org by public transport I found the prospect of having to learn to drive quite daunting.
I kind of feel that I am damaged somehow and didn't mature emotionally from the point I got on staff.
Despite this, since I got out, I have got somewhere to live, a vehicle, started putting a career together, rekindled some very old ambitions and interests, become much closer to my family and have a marriage proposal.
I have no one else to blame but myself for putting my entire life on hold for so many years. But I can't help feeling that if Scn was what it was supposed to be, a person would be able to fully function in the real world as well as be on staff.
Getting a job wasn't that difficult, although there were things I unwittingly found myself doing that it quickly turned out weren't the way companies do business. Being expected to multi-task instead of one cycle at a time, lack of dev-t policies, interruptions, and presenting a body were irritating to me at first until I got used to it. Then I realised how much easier it is because people are all too willing to pitch in and answer questions/help you in areas that strictly belong to their colleagues.
Much has been said about SO members who didn't even possess a driver's licence until they got out. I had become so accustomed to trotting up and down to the org by public transport I found the prospect of having to learn to drive quite daunting.
I kind of feel that I am damaged somehow and didn't mature emotionally from the point I got on staff.
Despite this, since I got out, I have got somewhere to live, a vehicle, started putting a career together, rekindled some very old ambitions and interests, become much closer to my family and have a marriage proposal.
I have no one else to blame but myself for putting my entire life on hold for so many years. But I can't help feeling that if Scn was what it was supposed to be, a person would be able to fully function in the real world as well as be on staff.