Keyvan Nayyeri

As I had noted on my army blog I began my military service in new organization (named Etka) on Sunday.  This organization is a division of Iran Ministry of Defense.  I serve in an office where is 10 miles far from Tehran (in west).  Unfortunately it's far from my home and it takes 1.5-2 hours to get there or return to home.  In these three days I had to spent 13 hours of my time to go there, work for them and return to home so there was almost no time for anything else.  After arriving home I'm so tired and just check my mailbox and RSS feeds and go to bed!

There I work in a software and networking department but don't know what's my exact responsibility yet.  It seems that my main responsibility is around software development (especially support of designed software by third party companies) but this is completely different from what you imagine.  Normally this is nothing for me but you know (!), worst things for a developer are:

• Not being able to read technical books and explore good resources.
• Working with dirty codes that others have written.

Everyday I deal with these two annoying things.  These dirty codes are making me down.  I should spend several hours to understand what they have done and I'll be so tired when a day ends .  After a long time of collaborating for great developers around the world who write beautiful codes I can't accept these unstructured dirty codes!  In fact there is neither an architecture nor any discipline behind these applications!

I don't know what will happen after this but anyhow I should follow next 18 months of my service in this office.  As others say things will be better after a while because I'll adapt myself with new life and will learn how to do my work.

Knowing above stuff, probably my online activity will be low for some weeks until I adapt myself with new life so I may be unable to keep sending many blog posts per week and also may have a short or long delay in my responses to emails, comments and feedbacks!  I hope things get better very soon.  The first thing that I really need is keep reading my books regularly and can't ignore this one at all!

+ Day after day I find more reasons to escape from this hell as soon as possible!