New job

Salam!

How is your 2025 going so far? I hope it is going great In Shaa' Allah. Mine is interesting. 

I wanted to blog about 2024 but that requires a lot of traveling down to memory land, so I passed. 

I am enrolling on a new job this year Alhamdulillah. and I have written a piece of essay? or reflection? or notes? on paper, as I always did. This was written on my third day in. I thought of reading it again and not let the piece of paper be lost in my pile of notebooks, so I will re-write it here. 

The note

2/1-6/1/2025 My thoughts on my new working life

Happy new year. so I got a new job starting that day, on 2nd January. It's in Kelana Jaya. Yeah, very far from my house. But after a lot of contemplation, thinking and worrying, and having "I just want to get out of my current company" as my main and strongest reason, Ive accepted the job. It pays well to be fair. 

I need to drive/take a long lrt ride from house there, which means I need to wakeup at 5 everyday to have time to get ready and do my mandatory morning routine. It's very tiring because it's very early and i'm not a morning person but the plus point is I got time to do extra prayers before subuh. 

I drove there for my first 2 days because I stupidly didn't know there was a connected LRT to the office. In my defense, the HR once told me at the interview that there's no LRT around. (Why? didnt he know?) My instinct is telling me not to like him, and I’ve been avoiding him so far.

Tbh, driving there wasnt too bad. but the first 2 days of new year is said to not reflect the "real" traffic. Now on the "real" traffic day, I tried the LRT and oh my god was it too long. I still need to wakeup at 5 anyway. I might try to drive again. 

The desk is quite luas. The desktop is so kuno....it's facing the sky so i love it

Let's talk about the company, I think the company is much better than my previous one. It's a bigger IT team, much more organized, lively and led by a better manager. 

It has been a "dream" (i dont have a dream job btw) of mine to work in a bigger, more efficient IT team. Because I can learn more and be more inspired to do better every day. So I guess I got it now Alhamdulillah. There's many Malay here, along with Chinese and Indians too. Having many malays have never came across my mind as a "best company" criteria, but it's quite nice. Though I will always make sure to keep out of the company's politics or gossips. As they are known for it. 

There's a mall nearby and I couldnt reject them if they invite me there for lunch. 
there's a lot of food choice. this is concerning.....financially and health

The team here is called Engineers or Developers and oh how much I love to be part of the "cool kids". However this lead me to this uncalled for and unneeded stress of wanting to be on par with them. It's my 3rd day in the office so it's quite unfair for me to put down myself by not knowing anything and being so much in blur. But when I sit in on their daily updates and seeing the codes, I can't help but pressure myself to straight away understand the codes and being the best coder in the team (which I doubt will happen)

The code is a whole spaghetti mess i need to untangle! It seems quite tough to understand cause it's using something i've never experienced before. It'll take time but I really hope I can do it. Please pray for me. I'm far from being a great programmer bcs I dont have coding as my hobby (yes, you have to code as a hobby to be good at it). but um, I will try. I really appreciate them trusting me though. 

11/1/2025 Update as of now 

After the long 2 days of taking the train, I made a conclusion. 

The train ride is longer than driving. BUT it has its pros and cons. 

If I have something to do on the train to distract me from the journey, like translating Korean content from yesterday, reading a book, watching something, or listening to something, I’ll take the train. If it’s raining, I’ll also take the train.

Otherwise, I’ll drive. The drive isn’t as bad as I thought, the traffic is manageable, and parking isn’t a problem.

I love the office surroundings. It’s not in the middle of a loud, busy city but is surrounded by a park, a beautiful lake, houses, a university, a sports complex, food places, a mosque, and a stadium. I really love it here.

The work is still great. I love it still. Though I do hear some bad noises coming from colleagues about how bad something is, i will just ignore it. It's not very concerning. yet. The people are nice. 

Conclusion: Switching workplaces was a great decision. I think I can grow a lot here, Alhamdulillah. I hope I’m not speaking too soon.

Please pray that I will not be burn out or worn out but the journey everyday. 

Please pray that I can understand the codebase. 

Please pray that I can solve every task thrown at me. 

I pray that Allah ease every affair of yours and may your every travel to work and your tiredness of work will be rewarded in Akhirah. Amin.