It sure took a while..
September 17th, 2006 by Erik Benerdal
I got out of bed this morning, feeling a bit bored. I went down to the pool and swam some lanes. (As a programmer I need all the exercise I can get). The sun was shining and reflecting in the pool water, when it finally hit me. “Dude! What the hell am I doing in the middle of asia swimming in this big-ass pool!? Just a couple of months ago I was just some poor punk kid coding pet projects from home.”
I’m so slow..
This is one of those qualities that I’m not necessarily proud of. I’m close to immune against change. It’s like a defence mecanism. I’ve been so apathic to this whole experienced and focused on my job I haven’t thought much about how I was able to get here.
Lesson learned: I need to be more grateful to those people around me that made this happen. I need to stop thinking of this as luck, or fate, and take my position more seriously.