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Melbourne is awesome. I am back in Hobart, my work lets me work from home. But I do visit Melbourne often and I love it there
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Mine was a contract for one year to back up a team that had been diverted to a major recall and the coding required to handle it. They had me doing the writing of test suites for code written the previous year in order to get it to pass FDA (Food and Drug Administration US) requirements. FOr a year, I browsed the internet asking for odd jobs whenever I was noticed.
Writing the documentation took maybe a few weeks and the odd jobs I did get accounted for another two. I had no IDE or technical tools to keep up skills and no fraternization to lighten the days, so I followed every story of the Japanese tsunami for a year.
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" My wife drove me to drink, -- only thing I have to thank her for. "
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Agile, like virginity, is its' own punishment. I'm on their side on that one. 
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See, I've been in terrible 'agile' projects, but a well run agile project is a great place to be
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If it's not fun than it's not worth.
Life is too short to waste it on unhappiness.
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And that's why I left 
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My very first professional job.
The team was really nice and I enjoyed the time with them, really.
But the CEO fooled me with the money, underloaded me and underestimated my skills...
I stayed a bit more than a year, then I left and never looked back.
Luckily for me.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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My first job was a small start up. I don't have a degree so every part of my career, I owe to him
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I was fresh graduated, doing the job of and being payed as a technician instead of an engineer. They promised me a rise after a time but it was like really short, other friends told me I was being underpayed, but I kind of thought... well, it is my first job, it will get better.
Then a project came with a time in Australia for the ramp up... I offered me volunteer.
- No, you don't have enough experience.
- But there are 6 months programming here and then the 1 month there...
- NO
They sent a guy that didn't want to go because the wife was pregnant. He managed to come to the hospital 20 or 25 minutes before the kid was born.
Then I got my very first project solo, to add something with a machine programmed by another guy in the company. I had 40 hours, done in 25, the customer asked me if I could had a look to something that wasn't working fine. I fixed it needing a total of 60 hours (from a 10~15% deviation error in the expected result to a 0.4~0.6%)
I got blamed because I couldn't follow what I had been told and took over the estimation 
But that the customer payed 80 hours for that project (20 hours plus for happines) and asked for two new projects to fix another two machines... nothing 
Then I started doing SCALA and GUI to a project from another new guy... and alone by doing the GUI I found errors in his programming. When I told him about them, he went to the boss and complained about me.
When the CEO called me and told me I was being nitpicky I told him to screw himself.
I was told to bring my staff on the next day and that the period of notice would be activated. But as he didn't want me there I got the 6 weeks (german contract notice) as paid holidays, I had a new job in the 4th in the other side of the country so I had to find an apartment and organize the moving in less than 2 weeks. They even gave me my first week free to end the moving and so on.
I worked 8 years there, it was stressing and I sometimes met real assholes on customer side during the way, but I was good at it and I enjoyed what I did. I had to leave for familiar / personal reasons.
I still get a bit angry about the first job, but all what I learnt there (and not specially the technical knowledge) helped me a lot after it, so I can't really regret it.
I have even thought on doing them a visit somewhen if I go near by... just to say. Hi, thanks for firing me, I would not be where I am if I had stayed here
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 22-Jan-21 17:55pm.
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A friend just pointed out that today we'll have (or had, by now) the time 21:21:21 of 21-01-2021 in the 21st century...
So I explained to her about the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Gregorian, Chinese and Julian calendar (as examples), time zones (and that they're not all an hour apart), notations, leap years and seconds, standards AND HOW A COMPUTER CAN'T HANDLE ANY OF THEM! 
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No, the way I live is the way all people have ever lived!!!
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Please stop wasting our...
Naaah. That one is just too easy!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Oh, the computer handles it alright, the programmers is a whole different question...
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So I had a Gold Coast holiday booked, but there's a couple of Corona Virus cases up there (australia is nothing like the hot mess the USA is in). My wife is a nurse and won't go. So I got vouchers from the airline.
This morning I get an email that I have to rebook a flight. Seems they only refunded one and I have NO vouchers. They are useless
I also have $600 in vouchers for Gold Coast theme parks. I actually HATE the Gold Coast
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Having an airline is a sideline. Their primary business is transporting livestock, primarily in cattle cars.
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*sigh*
utas? are you in Tasmania?
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U Taz? No, in Canada. 
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utas is the university of tasmania
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And this is why I don't fly anymore.
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My kids were supposed to come up from Sydney to Cairns for Christmas with Jetstar, they paid the extra to cover COVid19 problems. Naturally that all got cancelled, when they tried to change the flights - additional $600 but they were given a complete refund. Rebooked for Easter and we all have our fingers crossed.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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It's all been a bit sh*t. I was in QLD when it started, I did quarantine three times so far, once in a hotel.
I didn't pay any extra so I got vouchers. I pay extra on all my Melbourne business trips as I can claim them, and then I can be more flexible.
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It's not a CG post if it doesn't have problems with airlines  .
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Mostly Telstra, I thought....
I'm also at war with Paypal, if that helps....
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I was remembering your neverending love affair with Qantas.
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