Week 3-789

Work these past 3 weeks have been pretty stressful. I started work on a new feature, but a lot of the requirements/ design hadn't been nailed down yet. So it was pretty stressful having to come up with a design for some of the parts, and then having the team review them. Made much more difficult since it involved a lot of other parts, that I haven't worked on or looked at yet. Also everything needs to have a security review involved, but the form for that has super vague questions... So I wasn't really sure how to answer them.

Also 2 weeks ago, there was a "deadline" to meet to have the UI completed, but no one knew about it until 2/3 days before. We also didn't start on the UI yet so I worked a ton to try and get that done. Ended up moving it back a month, but also they wanted another demo of what I've done by end of last last week, so I put a lot of time in Wednesday/Thursday night to have it mostly completed. Integrating everything in and fixing up some edge cases might take a little more time so...

Also AWS has on call rotations, and mine is coming up soon. Not this week, but next week. I'm pretty nervous about it since we need to handle errors across all of our teams services, and I'm still not too familiar with all of them. They do have instructions depending on which errors show up, but some of them aren't completely up to date, and I'm a little scared of messing things up. There will be someone more senior as my backup, so I guess worst case I can just ask for help.

Something I've noticed, while working at AWS, is that I'm scared of asking for help from my teammates. I'm scared that it'll make me seem incompetent, since in past jobs, a lot of the incompetent coworkers would ask for help constantly from different people and basically all their work would be frankensteined from everyone else. Sometimes it's not a problem though, and I can come up with a solution after some research, but other times I spend multiple hours/days figuring something out. It's especially bad when it's an Amazon proprietary thing because then it becomes exponentially more difficult to find a well documented solution. Anyways I guess I need to become more comfortable asking for help when I need it, and not be worried that it'll come off as incompetent.

In other news, Jesse and Joy moved back in with us. And my nephew is so cute ><. I'm pretty scared of holding him though, since he tries to move a lot, and I don't want to drop him. It's pretty funny when I enter a room, and then he just stares at me, and then I stare back... until I leave the room again. I think he'll grow up to be very attractive (his face seems pretty symmetrical to me).

In terms of gymming, I think I've finally recovered from where I was pre-covid. Just had a personal training session yesterday to check my progress, but it said I only increased muscle mass a little... and my body fat percentage went up 0.8. So I guess that means I was making a lot of progress pre covid. Hopefully I can keep going up now.

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