01-08-2019, 11:38 AM
Man this shutdown has put my contract in a really weird place. (un)Fortunately they switched our newest maintenance contract to a fixed-price contract a couple months ago. Probably so they could have more control over everything and justify forcing us to justify every hour. But now they're shutdown and we're still technically supporting them. Of course they didn't really think ahead and give us any work to do while they're out...
The good news is we also kicked off a tech refresh recently. They didn't put me on that contract so I'm just billing the government to learn modern javascript, React/Angular and Node since I'll need it once that's done anyways. This stuff feels like child's play compared to all the old JEE stuff I'm used to. "You know that thing that used to take a dozen files, hours of config and hundreds of lines of code to do? We're just gonna do it in a js file or 2 with 50 lines of code because it's 2019 and not 2009"
No wonder JEE job postings are buried under a sea of "full stack" Javascript postings.
The good news is we also kicked off a tech refresh recently. They didn't put me on that contract so I'm just billing the government to learn modern javascript, React/Angular and Node since I'll need it once that's done anyways. This stuff feels like child's play compared to all the old JEE stuff I'm used to. "You know that thing that used to take a dozen files, hours of config and hundreds of lines of code to do? We're just gonna do it in a js file or 2 with 50 lines of code because it's 2019 and not 2009"
No wonder JEE job postings are buried under a sea of "full stack" Javascript postings.