Pass the paycheque please!
Well, I had a chat with a potential employer today to have a chat about my progress on my project and job opportunities. The cool thing is that I should be getting a formal job offer off them sometime this week to do development work for them. It sounds like they want me to be doing C++ stuff, which is a little scary as I’ve only got one modules worth of experience in that but I’m sure with a bit of studying and practice then I should be ok in it. I’ve never really had huge problems with learning a new programming language and I was at last starting to get my head around pointers at the end of the module.
Regarding my project things aren’t look so good – while I have made progress over the last week on adding in the functionality that is required by the specification, getting it to the point where I get paid for it seems to be quite a long way off. I suppose I should have more strictly defined what needed to be done to get paid with them before I started as now I’ve got to get the software through the mill of corporate acceptance testing, which could be a right arse. As far as I was concerned I needed to hand over to them a piece of software that worked as far as I knew, rather than spending weeks testing and documenting it and writing test suites. Something for discussion perhaps…