Its 1.55am and I should be happily snoring away in my bed, but instead I’m typing up this article in an attempt to tire me out and switch off.
For the last seven weeks I have been out of work, the good news being that I have now clinched a contract but it doesn’t commence for the next few weeks.
All good again, as I have those next few weeks of doing what the hell I like, while in the back of my mind I have some security awaiting and a new challenge.
So this is the problem, the same one I always have when starting a new gig. Can I do it, will I live up to the expectations of the client; can I really learn on the job quick enough to show progress and make a stable foundation for the entire estate?
I have landed a quite lucrative contract with a private sector company. It’s smaller than most companies I am used to working for, but I do see that as an advantage.
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My skill sets are Application Packaging, SCCM, Powershell, and App-V. Some may not know these terminologies but they are key products for mass deployment of software in usually large organisations.
I find it very trusting of a company to allow a solo contractor aka ME to develop their packaging infrastructure from a green field, to a full fledged operational unit with hundreds of packages to convert or recreate using App-V or MSI technology in a few months.
Frankly, its not going to happen but these details are not to be said at interviews. I do know better having seen this kind of initial optimism before.
Can I do it? Yes I can but I’m much more fluent in VBScript than Powershell, though I can get by in the latter. That said, I tend to take to scripting languages like ducks take to water, it’s just somehow in my blood.
I’m also much more comfortable with creating MSI’s using my repackaging reverse engineering skills than using App-V, but again I have skills in both areas.
Yet I’m here awake doubting myself again like I have many times before. My last contract lasted 6 years while the initial role was for 3 months. This was my selling point during the interview. ‘I must be doing something right!’, I said confidently and it worked.
I’m crap at interviews, and if I ever get that dumbass question, ‘What is your weaknesses’, I immediately pipe up, ‘Interviews, without a doubt! If you like what you hear it can only get better’. Put that one in your diary, it’s a 
I know I can do this, I love challenges and I’m sure I won’t disappoint this company as I have never done before. I’m so looking forward to delving deep into Powershell to create an install wrapper full of support functions while writing some App-V utility apps to compliment the one I wrote at my last gig.
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