I was asked to build an enterprise web application on my own, and am starting to feel overwhelmed
I came to my current place of employment as an contracted IT support technician of the most generic variety about a year ago. I had only an associates degree to my name and most of what I knew both as a support technician, and as a tech professional in general, was self taught. In short time, I showed myself to be useful enough to warrant hiring, and further more, worthy of more duties. I soon found myself working as a DevOps / Automation Engineer. Lot's of scripting.
Not to long after this transition I was tasked to build a web application for the enterprise that, in the long run, would serve as a central hub for day to day IT operations, with a focus on automation. Even without knowing the complete ins and outs of designing, prototyping, building, and maintaining a project of such scale, I knew this would be a lot for one person, but did not want to throw up the white flag just yet.
To recount all the time I took teaching myself basic web building principles, C#, javascript, various web application frameworks, etc. would take a movie montage, but suffice to say, I somehow managed to get the project of the ground and it is somewhat functional and not completely hideous. I am however feeling pretty burned out. I don't sleep much and am constantly worried I will fall flat on my face.
I am apart of a dev team of just three people, one of which has their own monolithic project, though not quite as large as my own, and the other who doesn't know enough about the technologies we use to adequately help us. I am approaching the UAT phase and have a growing backlog. Part of me wants to pack a bag and disappear to a place without electricity. More rationally though, I am thinking about talking to my boss about the workload and my struggle to carry it.
Was I stupid to take such a job in the first place? Should I quit now before I am buried by it all?
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I came to my current place of employment as an contracted IT support technician of the most generic variety about a year ago. I had only an associates degree to my name and most of what I knew both as a support technician, and as a tech professional in general, was self taught. In short time, I showed myself to be useful enough to warrant hiring, and further more, worthy of more duties. I soon found myself working as a DevOps / Automation Engineer. Lot's of scripting.
Not to long after this transition I was tasked to build a web application for the enterprise that, in the long run, would serve as a central hub for day to day IT operations, with a focus on automation. Even without knowing the complete ins and outs of designing, prototyping, building, and maintaining a project of such scale, I knew this would be a lot for one person, but did not want to throw up the white flag just yet.
To recount all the time I took teaching myself basic web building principles, C#, javascript, various web application frameworks, etc. would take a movie montage, but suffice to say, I somehow managed to get the project of the ground and it is somewhat functional and not completely hideous. I am however feeling pretty burned out. I don't sleep much and am constantly worried I will fall flat on my face.
I am apart of a dev team of just three people, one of which has their own monolithic project, though not quite as large as my own, and the other who doesn't know enough about the technologies we use to adequately help us. I am approaching the UAT phase and have a growing backlog. Part of me wants to pack a bag and disappear to a place without electricity. More rationally though, I am thinking about talking to my boss about the workload and my struggle to carry it.
Was I stupid to take such a job in the first place? Should I quit now before I am buried by it all?
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I came to my current place of employment as an contracted IT support technician of the most generic variety about a year ago. I had only an associates degree to my name and most of what I knew both as a support technician, and as a tech professional in general, was self taught. In short time, I showed myself to be useful enough to warrant hiring, and further more, worthy of more duties. I soon found myself working as a DevOps / Automation Engineer. Lot's of scripting.
Not to long after this transition I was tasked to build a web application for the enterprise that, in the long run, would serve as a central hub for day to day IT operations, with a focus on automation. Even without knowing the complete ins and outs of designing, prototyping, building, and maintaining a project of such scale, I knew this would be a lot for one person, but did not want to throw up the white flag just yet.
To recount all the time I took teaching myself basic web building principles, C#, javascript, various web application frameworks, etc. would take a movie montage, but suffice to say, I somehow managed to get the project of the ground and it is somewhat functional and not completely hideous. I am however feeling pretty burned out. I don't sleep much and am constantly worried I will fall flat on my face.
I am apart of a dev team of just three people, one of which has their own monolithic project, though not quite as large as my own, and the other who doesn't know enough about the technologies we use to adequately help us. I am approaching the UAT phase and have a growing backlog. Part of me wants to pack a bag and disappear to a place without electricity. More rationally though, I am thinking about talking to my boss about the workload and my struggle to carry it.
Was I stupid to take such a job in the first place? Should I quit now before I am buried by it all?
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I came to my current place of employment as an contracted IT support technician of the most generic variety about a year ago. I had only an associates degree to my name and most of what I knew both as a support technician, and as a tech professional in general, was self taught. In short time, I showed myself to be useful enough to warrant hiring, and further more, worthy of more duties. I soon found myself working as a DevOps / Automation Engineer. Lot's of scripting.
Not to long after this transition I was tasked to build a web application for the enterprise that, in the long run, would serve as a central hub for day to day IT operations, with a focus on automation. Even without knowing the complete ins and outs of designing, prototyping, building, and maintaining a project of such scale, I knew this would be a lot for one person, but did not want to throw up the white flag just yet.
To recount all the time I took teaching myself basic web building principles, C#, javascript, various web application frameworks, etc. would take a movie montage, but suffice to say, I somehow managed to get the project of the ground and it is somewhat functional and not completely hideous. I am however feeling pretty burned out. I don't sleep much and am constantly worried I will fall flat on my face.
I am apart of a dev team of just three people, one of which has their own monolithic project, though not quite as large as my own, and the other who doesn't know enough about the technologies we use to adequately help us. I am approaching the UAT phase and have a growing backlog. Part of me wants to pack a bag and disappear to a place without electricity. More rationally though, I am thinking about talking to my boss about the workload and my struggle to carry it.
Was I stupid to take such a job in the first place? Should I quit now before I am buried by it all?
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