When you're &quot;Only Lonely&quot; :-P

When you're "Only Lonely" :-P

dalecosp

How many of you are the "only programmer" at your "internet" company.

It seems to mean that I'll freakin' never get my desk cleared, or feel justified sneaking a peek at Facebook while I'm at the office 😉

traq

I'm the "only person" at my company. design, model, develop, debug ...advertise, negotiate, invoice, placate... ah, the joy

plus there are freakin' cats on my desk

😃

cretaceous

I'm a one man band too - I hate it when I have to tell myself to get back to work and quit wasting time browsing, leads to bad feelings all round (and incipient metal derangement)

NogDog

I'm one of four new hires who started this past week in the software engineering department at the internet company where I'm now working, more or less doubling the size of the department at that location. We're big enough to have a separate department for UI design and artwork, which is a good thing if you've ever seen me try to do something artistic. 😉

dalecosp

traq;10987889 wrote:
I'm the "only person" at my company. design, model, develop, debug ...advertise, negotiate, invoice, placate... ah, the joy

plus there are freakin' cats on my desk

😃

Aye, that 'twas me for many a yarr ... now "da man" pays me to do what I do, and has others for sales and marketing (including himself) and a designer and a support person (who technically, is also my boss). So far, it's a tad better arrangement, but as a geek I was just no good at business ... just fixin' stuff and programming.

And I hear ya, Cretaceous ... it was that way with me for a long time.

I guess what I'm finding funny is how if anyone has a question about code, even stuff like ASCII numbers for translation of HTML entities, I seem to be the only one with knowledge. But at least I do know. And everyone knows enough to keep the ship afloat, or so it seems. I do hope sales & marketing gets on the stick soon (they've been short-handed since about, oh, March, just got 3 new people in the last month or so) ... that "profit sharing" thing sounds too good to be true if they don't.

traq

I love back-end stuff, but I'm pretty good with the front end too. I also do graphic design and artwork, so I'm fairly well covered being a "one-man band." I don't like the business end of it, but I can get by. I do like dealing with the client directly, rather than trying to work from a designer's (or salesman's) project description.

dalecosp

NogDog;10987963 wrote:
We're big enough to have a separate department for UI design and artwork, which is a good thing if you've ever seen me try to do something artistic. 😉

Lol, I hear dat. The gal in the next cube has a fairly decent grasp on art and design ... colors ... and the like, which is a Good Thing(tm) ... I'm a tad challenged on that front as well.

I just occasionally wish she knew something about, oh, HTML, BBCode, and the like, or even PHP/SQL/Javascript/AJAX 😃

The_Chancer

If I'm the only PHP coder is that the same thing... (nasty .net....) ?

dalecosp

Not sure ... I suppose it does if the .NET peeps are as clueless about what you do as are, say, the sales department, the graphic department, mangement, etc.