浮雲遊子

2008年3月20日，星期四

Today is deployment day, promoting all changes we made to the database to the production environment. It’s also the second time I handle such task. It went well, everything can be turned back on tomorrow morning.

Remember the first time I managed a project was late last year, and the project was much bigger than this one. Taking over that project from the colleague who went on maternity leave, and I pretty much did everything, including documentation, development, testing and deployment, with the assistance of my colleague DBA of course. The scary part was the deployment phase, I was very nervous since the night before, my heart was beating so fast and my stomach was cramping. I kept thinking what if I screwed up the whole thing; what if the program I developed didn’t work properly once it’s being promoted to live; what if…? Fotunately everything went well on deployment day, just a few hiccups here and there, but overall, it went well. My manager was happy with the outcome as well.

很多時候，對那些從來沒經歷過的事，事情還沒開始就先自己嚇自己，懷疑自己的能力．

準備得再怎麼充足，日子一到，還是會緊張．後來做多了，熟悉所有的作業程序，也就好了．

若當時畏畏縮縮的，結果可能不會那麼好．

工作上有多少個第一次，若不去做做看，你的潛力永遠也不會被發掘出來．

做了一次也才有機會知道自己是否適合或喜歡從事這樣的工作．

人生也一樣吧，第一次應徵工作，第一次開車，第一次在外租屋，第一次自助旅行，第一次投資．．．

若當時因心中的恐懼而不敢邁出一步，這些”第一次”也就不會實現了，對吧．