--- title: First day on the job description: "" date: 2022-11-28T16:12:28.822Z preview: "" draft: false tags: - jobbyjob categories: "" lastmod: 2022-11-30T03:16:39.231Z --- As a software developer that gets loaned out to other companies, I tend to have quite a few "first day on the job" days. Today was one of them, joining a team working hard to get a new bio-lab robot on the market. As is typical with joining a new project, I spent the entire first day trying to figure out why nearly nothing in the README actually worked. Computers are the worst.