Recognition...

Well my "insanity" has finally paid off. At least a little bit.

A few months ago I started writing some code to abstract a lot of the redundant code we were doing so that I could save time and complexity in one of the projects at work. A few days ago while working on a new screen I took that a step further and built some generic objects in the place of the some of the redundant code we would be forced to write otherwise which leveraged this earlier code (which I have also been using almost religiously throughout my code). I had thought that eventually I would get push back on these approaches because they sort of go against the way our framework was leading us. Today I found out that the things my solutions are working around were things that were also bugging some of the higher-ups, for which, in contrast to what I was expecting, I got complimented.

After the meeting today this also got me thinking. Probably the funniest part is that I have also been getting a lot of attention for how quickly and easily I'm able to turn parts of my projects around or create new ones. It never occurred to me that it might be because I have been depending on these workarounds for so long now whereas it now seems none of the other teams have been coming up similar sorts of concepts. So they having coding the "hard way".

Typically when I'm wandering off the beaten path it is because I want to write some code to save time when I get back on the path and those endeavours are the ones which are really starting to look like a bigger investment than I anticipated. They will always give me back more from a coding perspective than I invest into them which is why I did them in the first place, but it is nice to get some added recognition for it as well. I hope I never hate my job... I do love innovating, even if it is just words on a screen that no one else will ever read.