You are the man who used to boast
That you’d achieve the uttermost,
Some day.
You merely wished to show,
To demonstrate how much you know
And prove the distance you can go.
Another year we’ve just passed through.
What new ideas came to you?
How many big things did you do?
Time left twelve fresh months in your care.
How many of them did you share
With opportunity and dare
Again where you so often missed?
We do not find you on the list of Makers Good.
Explain the fact!
Ah no, ‘twas not the chance you lacked!
As usual – you failed to act!
I graduated in 2011, I currently work as a java developer for an investment bank, and I find myself spiralling into a work induced depression. Skills-wise I'm not progressing at the rate I would like; the hours are pretty long so I have minimal time for coding outside of work, no one on my team cares at all for best practices or improving their craft, technology is seen as a secondary concern,...