Still, something is missing. As a fresh college graduate, you expect the last day of school to propel you to new heights of professional accomplishment. The propelling part definitely works, but the ceiling is also deceptively close. How do you build knowledge out of the skimpy crumbs that you’ve been served in school? How do you survive a new set of rules and requirements when you are handed a project other than the ones you can optionally fail and drop?

What you are about to read is nothing more than the thread that I intentionally unwinded behind me when trying to figure it all out. From dealing with a client to configuring a system, this is the professional diary of a fresh college graduate that found herself being a pawn in the IT business and had to answer all these questions one by one.

You need somebody to tell you how it was. You need someone to come back from the woods and show you where the traps lay and how to get to the other side. This is exactly what I have recorded here: simple ramblings of a new college escapee. How I survived it day by day, and how I got to love what I was doing. What others told me and what I discovered by myself. Things that I don’t want to forget and things to which I always come back for help. Or simply, things that might make YOUR journey seem a little bit shorter.

Despite what you might have read at the top of this page, you are not welcome here if you are not able to shake off your critical views for as long as you stick around. If you already know all these and genuinely yearn for something new, I repeat it: this site has nothing to do with Taiwanese cuisine. If you decide to stay, be kind. You owe it to me. After all, you could have done it first and spared my efforts!

So let’s start! Rambling number one…

What is the difference between your client and God?