Kieran Senior

• Published:June 18th, 2008
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I got back to Guernsey just over a week ago after our seven hour boat trip from Portsmouth where I was surprised with club class which was a nice treat.  I actually had a single day off before I started my new job so life has been so hectic that this is the first time I’ve managed to get on my laptop in about ten days.

So my new career is good, and the learning curve has been as always, quite immense.  I’m working mainly in VB.NET, SQL, JavaScript and ASP.NET where I’m spending time fixing bugs, making enhancements and responding to personal requests which eventually reach my desk.  VB.NET is quite a simple language, but not without its quirks as I have previously mentioned.  My job keeps me interested as I feel I can add my own personal touch, opinions, and share things that I have learnt in the past with other employees.  For example, we currently have no real bug tracking and feature-pushing system to help us keep track of everything, we literally work by pen and paper so I’m currently pushing for this as we can hook it up to our SVN repo and keep track via revision.

The systems we work with are actually quite important as they’re number-crunching systems, and if a figure is even marginally out then we could do some real damage, although there’s many safety measures to ensure that this would never happen.  I also have skilled professionals working closely over my shoulder to ensure nothing could go wrong.

Being back in Guernsey is quite nice, although I find I have absolutely no time recently for anyone, neither responding to e-mails or being able to answer calls.  By time evening comes I’m cleaning the house as we’ve filtered through all of our stuff trying to get rid of things we don’t need, which inherently means there’s more mess than ever.  Today the front room is finally tidy, but we have been out of the house a lot recently, especially as we forget to check our gas tanks which ran out leaving us with no hot water and no way to cook anything.

Finally, I’ve worked out my university grades, and I’m on the borderline, it’s now completely down to the officials at the university whom are apparently "fighting for my case" in the ever-going battle of a first class grade.  I feel as if I should just give up trying and settle down!