{"id":644,"date":"2002-08-01T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-02T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/01\/geek-mode-on\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:04:55","slug":"geek-mode-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/01\/geek-mode-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek mode on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to say anything about this too soon &#8212; I tend to get a little too excited about things before they&#8217;re actually happening &#8212; but now that i&#8217;ve been at it for almost a full week, I figured I&#8217;d actually say something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Life at work has taken a definite turn for the better!<\/p>\n<p>Last week I was about ready to turn in my resignation and ask my temp agency to find me another posting. While the work hasn&#8217;t been bad, there have been two main annoyances that have been getting to me. First off, the pay is a lot lower than I&#8217;d like it to be, and secondly, since I&#8217;ve just been your basic bindery monkey (binding books, cutting paper, laminating, drilling holes, etc.), not only was I not learning anything new, but I wasn&#8217;t even using the knowledge I had. Not something that&#8217;s likely to keep me interested for very long, and I&#8217;d pretty much reached the end of my rope. So on Wednesday, I was on my way to the boss&#8217;s office to talk to him about this and see if there was anything that could be done about either (or preferably both) of these situations.<\/p>\n<p>On my way there, I got pulled aside, and asked if I knew anything about HTML. Since I&#8217;ve been playing with this website since about 1995 I was pretty cofindent in telling them that I had some idea of how it worked&#8230;and suddenly, I was a lot less interested in whining to my boss.<\/p>\n<p>Since this last Monday, I&#8217;ve been neck-deep in HTML, CSS, and XML, working on helping to code the pages for a web-based job submission tool being built by Xerox for use within Microsoft for sending jobs to the Xerox print shops. They&#8217;ve given me a week or two to &#8216;prove myself&#8217; so that they could be sure that I actually was able to contribute to the project and wasn&#8217;t just talking out of my rear when I said that I was good with HTML, and then we get to start negotiating a raise. This doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;ll be too hard to do, as I&#8217;ve made a lot of progress over the past four days with the two pages that I was given to start with.<\/p>\n<p>One fun side effect of diving into the world of code has been that it&#8217;s kicked me back into full-on geek mode. I&#8217;ve had a few things bouncing around that I&#8217;ve wated to work on here on my site, but I just hadn&#8217;t gotten around to getting started. Now that geek mode is back in gear, I&#8217;ll be diving back into those projects. Should be interesting to see how this goes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this last Monday, I&#8217;ve been neck-deep in HTML, CSS, and XML, working on helping to code the pages for a web-based job submission tool being built by Xerox for use within Microsoft for sending jobs to the Xerox print shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}