It’s a great feeling when you find yourself being part of a great team. Brought together for a common goal, working towards a target, an achievement. Day by day working alongside your comrades achieving each milestone, constantly learning and evolving, enjoying the work.
Time ticks along and friendships grow as you fight on in the trenches together, still delivering, often under tight deadlines with limited resources, yet you hit the targets and the client is pleased. They hired a great team.
But everything must come to an end. Projects complete. Budgets run out. Priorities change. The team is disbanded and everyone goes to the four winds. Temporary ronin until a new master calls, a new team, a new challenge.
Some of us keep in touch. The occasional comms. A brief how are you, where are you working these days? Not the same as when you were in the trenches together working on that fun project up against the clock, delivering, with a happy client.
Nothing remains forever.
Here’s to all those great teams out there. Enjoy the flow while it lasts.
Tag: working
Head in the clouds
Not everyone wants to constantly work in the cloud. Some of us like to be offline on occasion. Yet the extra hurdles you have to go through just to create something offline can be taxing.
Take Microsoft Windows for example. Let’s say you want to create an account on your laptop for your spouse or child and they don’t have a Microsoft account and don’t need one. Yet when you try to create an account for them it takes three times as long and it’s not immediately apparent how to do it.
Using Google drive and you enter an area with no internet or phone reception? You are done. The app stops working even though you should be able to work offline. You can’t edit your files anymore. They become greyed-out. Same with a myriad of other apps. It’s as if app makers these days don’t understand how someone cannot be online. The amount of errors my phone apps generate when I go offline without selecting the aeroplane icon. Did the QA guys not test the possibility of someone wanting to work offline?
Nowadays I have backups. Really basic free apps that allow me to work without constant internet access. I just copy my files into them and work on them when I’m in a dead zone. Plus there’s the added bliss that no one can reach you to disturb you.
Rant over..