It’s been a busy week, so only today have I gotten the strength to write anything.
Work has been quite busy, with lots of angst over our business plan. As an Indian consultancy, there are multi-cultural difficulties for Brits working for us. The company is very slow in coming to grips with these. If we are to be seen as a consultancy that adds something to the labour of many programmers and testers back in India, we need to pay higher salaries here, find very talented people, and allow them to go ahead and do what they do best. This is not yet happening. There is a growing realisation that our salaries aren’t going to attract many multi-talented people unless they are raised.
Well, you say, why are you working for them? Well, I don’t necessarily need lots of money any more, I thought it would be fun, and they were the first ones who asked me. Any raise in salary or title I get will be gravy. As it is, I’m putting 20% of it away in my pension plan (about
My new laptop has some sort of migration program on it, too. I’m not sure, though, if it just needs to access the old hard drive or if I need to leave the old laptop intact and find a way to power it up. Sometimes it sucks not being more of a hardware guy. Of course, I’ve made zero progress on anything to do with my old laptop since I’ve been sick in bed since the Thursday before New Year’s and have only been out of the house four times in that span.
We have our old Toshiba laptop which can power up but has no hard drive. Shall we transfer hard drives and see whether we can power it up long enough to do the transfer? We could also switch drives with the Dell laptop long enough to do it. (I’m just thinking of the memory situation, which is pretty dire with the Toshiba). I don’t believe that the transfer can happen if the other drive is just connected in a USB crive case.
Didn’t realise that you were ill. Hope you arise from your bed of pain soon.