Test (Part 2)

So, the team I thought I had no chance of joining seem to think I've done as well as anyone who has "taken the test previously and joined the team", so they'd like me to move over...

Not sure if this a good sign, do they get through a lot of developers? Is the system so bad they'll have any idiot in? Or, do I, through some fluke of years of "hard" work have some skills they recognised. Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on myself as this is a pretty good opportunity to do some new and exciting things (to me at any rate), and the hiring manager has recognised my eagerness to learn - which he says is an important and useful thing to him (I think that is usually code for "big pile of rubbish code ahoy") - but it's going forward and more experience, in a more developer focused environment, hopefully.

All I seem to need to do now is navigate my way across, and the logistics of that are going to be all kinds of not-fun on numerous levels - so we're not there quite yet.

Part of me has been wondering for the last couple of weeks whether I want to continue being a developer, at times it seems like we're the last sane people in the building trying to prevent the "business" bestowing a great disaster upon itself, rather than changing the world... and it's true I get fed up of the constant "why?" questions that people come up with after they've come up with utterly unrealistic or unimaginably poor ideas through the power of their own groupthink. But yet, I still enjoy the output, producing useful stuff, making the world better (tm) - or, just slightly less worse (or, miles worse if I'm not feeling charitable).

But, a change is as good as a rest, or going postal.