@peter well said On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
An out of the box suggestion; those times you are idle, try to figure out how someone can gain unauthorized access to the core banking system. Since you are familiar with CCNA, you could start with the network. Yes I know it might be extremely hard but that only means that you have to look harder and read more manuals, thus keeping you busy.
But based on your description of your boss, he sounds like the sorta dude who will fire you before you can even finish saying "Hey boss, I found a way to hack..."
Chuks would call it Penetration Testing :-)
Or maybe, learn a totally new programming language, create an application which will be doing those boring BOF and EOF operations for you, thus eliminating sources of boredom from your day to day life.
Jokes aside, if you have no passion for what you are doing, there be no need to do it.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>wrote:
2009/7/22 Njoroge Tito <titonjoroge@gmail.com>
@Simon - i hope your employer has never heard of skunkworks.
You mean the dude I am with in IT?? I am sure he never has. But what I have said is the truth anyway.
My opinion - talk to your boss.. explore what other opportunities there are in that current organization that you may be interested in. Also, use the "bored" time to learn about other things in the financial world.. Learn their business, learn the industry, their ways of working. Don't limit yourself to the computer, explore.Maximize the opportunity, while at the same time, don't underperform in your role. Every organisation has something to offer, even if it is "how not to do business."
I have tried talking to him, he appears far from enthused whenever I talk to him about anything except when we are talking about businesses one can start. he likes talking about bakeries and fertilizer production. [I'm dead serious] By the way, underperforming in my riole is unfathomable, my role involves routine work. When I come up with ideas like establishing a domain, he looks at me like I'm being ridiculous. Can you imagine UUNET had to redo the physical network here?? Wanna know why? They were using the *bus topology*.. not in the 70s, in the 2000s. Don't you just pity me?
when it comes to challenge - find you passion and look for something along those lines.
I have tried that, but there is so little that I can learn here. I am trying to study how the banking system operates because all I have been taught is routine work.. like when branches close for the day, do end-of-day like this [proceeds to demonstrate]
To leave or not. Hard question.
This I must and will surely do, God willing, only that I am not sure when is the best time.
Tito.
Thanks, really. More comments welcome :)
2009/7/22 aki <aki275@googlemail.com>
Hey Simon, thnks for that recent tip on SDK on my still troubled c sharp journey. my adv would be that firstly leaving too soon would like bad on your resume and may affect your next job prospects. You can use the less challenging times to eg study and build on better times ahead. Its one of those things one has no control over. :-)
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