Once upon a time, I was working with a new support client. I had been tasked to assess their instance and identify opportunities to resolve technical debt. In reviewing Contact object fields, I thought I had found an easy win for the deprecation list in “temp_bool”, a field that had been created five years prior.
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Each spring, one of my anniversaries is the renewal of hosting on this website. I haven’t written in years, it’s not up to date on multiple levels – why do I still have this?
But I keep having these ideas. What if I go freelance? What if I build that package? What if I want to blog again?
I originally got this website to build a professional profile, and it helped me get the job that became a launching pad into a career. Once I got that full-time job though, and especially after having a child, writing about myself quickly became the lowest of priorities.
Now I’m again in a place where it will be useful to have a professional profile. I left my job a few months back due to mental health stress and unhappiness with full-time consulting. While I liked the variety in my job, I found I couldn’t handle well the stress of moving between 10+ active clients and supporting all they have configured and installed in their systems. I needed to slow down. I needed to rethink my career and find options that fit better with my strengths.
As I am in this reflective period, I’m finding that I have a lot to say. I have a lot of stories from these last few years – what a few years! – and I’ve learned a lot about myself along the way. I hope I can keep up with the idea of writing and sharing again.
Let’s see where these ideas go.