%title Woooork.
%date 2009-06-03 20:30:17
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So I've now completed several projects for work in my new position - I modified the library's calendar to use LDAP for authentication and changed things to fit the library's standards; I've researched the possibility of migrating the site to a content management system as well as possibilities for specific systems; I researched and implemented GIS enabling the library; and now I've completed in three days a full library catalog system for a portion of the library that's not kept in the base catalog, including LDAP authentication, searching, checking books out, etc.

Everyone seems pleased with my progress, but I'm still dissatisfied.  For one, the only project to be implemented so far is the calendar.  The CMS project was apparently completely and totally unnecessary: not only were they already planning on migrating to a CMS, but they already had a CMS picked out, despite my research and recommendations.  The GIS stuff was appreciated by surprisingly few people at first, but has suddenly turned into a committee effort, involving meetings and bureaucracy heretofore unimagined; it will probably be wrested from my hands and outsourced or I'll be forced to change everything to some products that have more buzzwords attached.  The catalog was appreciated and will be deployed soon enough, thankfully, but I was forced to work with some undesirable technology which shall remain anonymous to protect myself from flaming.  All this, and I'm still making less than entry-level tech-support wages at Hartshorn Health Center, where my friend wound up; and I'm making far less than my coworker in tech support who isn't doing any development.  If I don't receive a raise by the end of the fiscal year, I think I'll install Sibelius on my Windows box here and spend my time composing instead of working - I'll work only as much as I get paid :oP