angelak | SP Adventures

Ah, well.
Will get through this somehow. Only thing to do is go right on through this dandy little bump in my current situation.

Hmmm. How exciting.
:P

"Hi Chris,
I can't get into OWA today.
So, I'm sending this via my personal email account - which I can get into.

This class is somewhat far above my personal skillset scope. It's a lot of serious backend coding and development that I don't think I could understand without a lot of .asp experience and web dev experience, and a whole lot of I-don't-even-know experience. I just don't have this kind of knowledge.

In fact, it begins to cause me to feel overwhelmed with this entire project. I don't know how to properly organize an enterprise Sharepoint site. I could learn how to manage it, I could teach other people how to manage it - but actually build it solo to be something efficient, effective, and worth while for the entire city? What I can provide is a hodge-podged website that will be confusing to everyone (including myself) with no clear direction and architecture. I have spoken to my other friends that have deployed Sharepoint sites at their organizations (like the patent office) and they said they had an entire team allocated to just launching the site. I suppose this could be what our IT department is considered. I just wish I understand how to properly, effecitvely, and logically organize websites like this. I don't. This sort of thing has always been one of my weaker points.

This really concerns me: Is this really where my job is heading? This class has caused me to feel worse about my skill levels.
Thoughts? Guidance? What do I do about the rest of this confusing class? It's a video led class with a mentor to ask questions. I can't even ask questions because I can't begin to attach to the C# programming in this. Get what I mean? I just keep listening and watching the video instructor and it's like a first grader listening to a calculus lecture.

-Angela"

Be that as it may. It's all I've got. Why should I do poor work that will likely take it's toll in my personal well being just because I'm being asked to do something that isn't in my skill set?

Hey Angela – don’t worry about your job direction.

Your call if you feel you are wasting your time – better to be productive here than a mushroom there. We can talk about the SharePoint project – whether to can it for now or not. Depends on you – really – no issues. I was probably naïve in thinking what was involved.

Bottom line – your call – don’t be concerned about anything.

I do like the term mushroom. Well.At least it got the point across. He doesn't seem to be perturbed at all...

-Angela