My Project Of Projects That Projects All My Projects

I’ve been working on a particular project recently that lets me practice and test my programming skills without having to create a thousand repositories. The purpose is to build a project-hosting project. Sounds a little useless. Perhaps. I just need a platform for building an armada of my programming ideas that adds to my commit count on GitHub at the same time. I’m calling it “Mini.”

Usually I’d create a project, push commits to that project, and repeat, but now I can multiply the commits that I push; one commit for the individual project, and one commit for the Mini version. It relieves me of the burden of keeping my GitHub leaderboard homogeneously green, so that I can focus on advancing my skills without the politics and appearances that come with the industry.

I often don’t care for such tedious things such as appearances and leaderboards, yet that is the game…so all I need to do is rig the game. If all I need to do to make the recruiters happy and build the ladder is to have the numbers on my side, there are easier ways to make that happen than to actually program a thousand programs. With nothing more than some intelligence and a few hours’ time, I have reduced the amount of work I need to do to appear to have 1000 works by half.

In this world, efficiency is more highly regarded than hard work. I won’t deny that I work hard either. I put my blood, sweat, and tears into my work and projects. However, knowing how to get results with the least amount of work will make my time more valuable and my service more desirable.

I have zero interest in wasting my time in my career. I want to build and create, and if I can take away as many obstacles as I can from that road, I would have taken too few away. The Mini project, at least, will be build with one message. Simple, reliable, and effective. If I can replicate this experience many times over than I would be true that message.

I recognize this post is a bit of a ramble. Maybe more than a bit…on reread it sounds almost incoherent. However, years from now this post will be nothing more than the remnant of some post-graduation requirements from some career coaches. If you are one of the few to read this then, first, thank you, and second, cherish the rashness of my rambling. I am certain I’ll learn to shut my mouth and thoughts soon enough…

Until then, you are stuck with my unfiltered, in-bed, half-asleep, thoughts. To end I’ll remind you what I do. I am a Software Engineer. I am a worker who makes life easier for everyone through my lines of code, including myself. I became a Software Engineer to make my life easier. I have succeeded.