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jakery

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A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Hello, everyone. I'm writing a quick post to explain my absence these past several months from the EE Forum.

I'm 27 years old and I have a full-time job as a web developer. A year ago I was handling small PHP-based projects and transitioning out of the Content Manager role. Then, in March 2011, my company started a massive new project: converting our entire corporate website from PHP to C#, implementing Sitecore CMS, and rebuilding our client-facing web apps in .NET C#. And my new boss must have had faith in me because he named me the Lead Developer on this new project, despite the fact that I was a beginner at both C# and .NET.

The first few months were easy; these were the initial planning stage and my workload was pretty normal. By September I was starting to feel the work pile up and I was starting to go a little nuts from thinking in code all day. The level of concentration was mentally exhausting. After work every day I would just come home and flop; watch some Netflix with the wife or just shut my eyes and rest. I stopped going to my usual websites, stopped EE and the Forum, and checked my email maybe once a week. I stopped checking Facebook and posting on Twitter altogether. Somewhere along the way I grew a beard. (yes, really) XD

By December I was working 10 hours a day every day, sometimes 12 hours every day. Our "do-or-die" deadline for initial development work was December 27. We were on schedule, but only because of the extra hours everyone was working. The month passed in the blink of an eye.

We finished a week ahead of schedule and my entire Christmas holiday was a blur. It's all over now. The deadline is met and the pressure is off. Now we're in the Testing phase where we polish our code, document our work, and fix bugs that the Unit Testers find. This kind of work is much less stressful.

I feel a bit weird jumping back in after being gone for so long but I'm glad to be back. I missed being here.

Buzzerbee

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,575

Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Yay Jakery is back! <3

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Twipply

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

How's your wife doing?

plat aka kingpooultra

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Joined: 2017-05-27

Posts: 3,873

Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Welcome back Jakery! Do you like the beard? :3

Good to see the work is easier for you now. I hope you can be on more, it's always awesome having you around.

Welcome back, again. <3

Monstar43

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Welcome back Jakery! We were wondering where you went.

kingjamstar

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Joined: 2015-02-19

Posts: 472

Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Welcome back Jakery!

Muffin

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Can we see your corporate website and praise your work?

nothingishere2

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

I don't think I've met Jakery yet, so hello and welcome back. You must be a pretty good moderator to have so many people welcoming you back.

JadElClemens

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From: Colorado, USA

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,559

Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Welcome back to the forums, jareky! I was wondering where you'd gone!

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Tako

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From: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 6,663

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

How's your wife doing?

trolo

Uh, congratulations? I bet you feel accomplished, at least.

I bet the last thing you want to do right now is moderate a forum

Last edited by Tako (Jan 4 2012 9:28:29 pm)

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Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

Krazyman50

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Wb jakery!

PS I posted that one picture in my sig

Chimi

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Welcome back, man!

Say hello to Mrs. Jakery for me... Tell her I'm doing pretty good.

Different55

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Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Tell all your families some random person you've never met says, "hi". Or not. Probably not.

wb, Jakery.

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"Sometimes failing a leap of faith is better than inching forward"
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Mollison

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

How's your wife doing?

I'm swell.   How 'bout you?

@Chimi: Glad that things are better for you!

32OrtonEdge32dh

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From: DMV

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 5,166

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Tell all your families some random person you've never met says, "hi". Or not. Probably not.

wb, Jakery.

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Ratburntro44

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Posts: 1,383

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Wait, you're a web developer? Now I consider you even awesomer than before.

Twipply

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

How's your wife doing?

I'm swell.   How 'bout you?

Oh, things are just super wonderful.   I'm glad you're doing well, stranger.

jakery

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

^^^ Get off my Kool-Aid.

plat aka kingpooultra

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Joined: 2017-05-27

Posts: 3,873

Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

^^^ Get off my Kool-Aid.

Lololololololol.

I can say you're back to your old self, Jakery.

Gaing

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Lol.

Anyways welcome back jakery! Glad to see your back!

xGBx-PwNzZ

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Welcome back, You got a beard? ( <) lol

Tako

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From: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 6,663

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

^^^ Get off my Kool-Aid.

His spidey-senses are tingling.

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Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

ThuggishPrune

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

Somewhere along the way I grew a beard. (yes, really) XD

Epic level too high to count

Deetz

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

I hope you've never stopped partying hard... Then the world would end.

Last edited by deetz (Feb 12 2012 10:59:48 am)

xputnameherex

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Re: A huge weight is off my shoulders.

I was starting to go a little nuts from thinking in code all day.

Guy: Jakery, did you eat my sandwich!?

Jakery: *quietly:* 00100111101100010010010...