[📝] Today Was #207: My First Job as a Developer

✨ GPT-5.5’s Summary 　

A day when I confirmed my start date after my first final acceptance for a developer position, while also facing the reality that it is not a pure software company but a role handling internal MVP maintenance/development and IT support, choosing it as an experimental ground for my first real-world experience.

💭 Diary

For the first time in my life, I passed a final interview as a developer and got hired. My first day will be Monday, June 22, from 9 to 18.

Honestly, since I am a new hire, the salary was not especially satisfying. But I also felt that I should not set my value by old standards while being dazzled by AI-inflated productivity. I am confident in AI-assisted development, but I do not have much portfolio evidence proving just how well I can use it. So I proposed a salary and conditions that were somewhat humble, yet still maybe a little burdensome for the company compared with a new hire. Thankfully, they accepted.

Unfortunately, this is not a company where development is the main business. I expect my work to be roughly 50% development and 50% internal IT, with occasional outside visits for field feedback.
It is a fairly large outsourcing company, and the developers are one hardware developer and one software developer, with the previous software developer expected to hand things over to me and leave. My first work will probably be taking over the internal MVP apps that the previous developer made with AI, then maintaining and improving them.

At first, it felt a bit burdensome that I would be in charge of the software part and would not have a senior developer to ask for advice. But after thinking about it more, I do have AI as a useful tool and discussion partner, so I do not feel too worried.

And the best part is that this company seems to fit me pretty well, because I have always wanted to build several MVPs with somewhat confirmed demand in a startup-like way, gather real usage data, improve them, and eventually develop them into SaaS products.
The company also seemed to be looking for someone suited to an experimental and adventurous department, so I think they saw me very positively.
That is why, compared with the other options, I ultimately chose this place.

Of course, it is unfortunate that I will start with a three-month contract and then likely renew yearly, so it is not a typical regular full-time position. Still, I hope my potential can be fully used, giving the company high productivity and giving me valuable experience.

🧭 Today’s Check-In (Daily Review)

Today’s Win/Loss

• Win: Final interview acceptance, start date confirmed, and all the other piled-up errands handled
• Loss: Celebratory overeating

Today’s Core Goal

• Confirm the company I will join
  • Completion criteria: Final notice to the HR contact
  • Why it matters: A crossroads in my life

Today’s Tasks

• Counseling: third National Employment Support Program session
• Interview: Winaid
• Submit the contributed-property report
• Transfer the association donation
• Buy church supplies

Output

• What I left today: acceptance and start-date confirmation messages

Escape Record

• Escape before output: None
• Reason for escaping: None

Body Record

• Weight: 85.2kg
• Diet
  • Breakfast: ramen, egg, rice
  • Lunch: 4 chicken legs
  • Dinner: 2 pastas
• Exercise: None

🤖 GPT-5.5 Coaching (KPT)

Execution: Elon Musk | To Make Imagination Real

• Keep: You confirmed the company you will join and actually handled counseling, interviews, the contributed-property report, the donation transfer, and church supply purchases. Today, execution came before words.
• Problem: There was a major output called your first developer acceptance, but energy leaked out in outcome management through celebratory overeating.
• Try: Today’s core is not “a good opportunity came,” but that an entrance opened where you can leave products in the real field of internal MVPs and IT support.
• Question: At this first company, what can you truly leave in the world: a title, or working output?

Watchfulness: Socrates | To Know Myself

• Keep: You did not only wrap it positively; you wrote down the reality that this is not a pure software company and that it begins with a three-month contract followed by yearly renewals.
• Problem: “AI is a good tool, so it should be fine” may be courage, but it may also be self-comfort that underestimates the burden of having no senior developer.
• Try: Today’s record becomes honest when it holds both the joy of acceptance and the coldness of the conditions at once.
• Question: Do you call your reason for choosing this company freedom and possibility, or are you mistaking uncertainty for something you are sure you can endure?

Health: Hippocrates | To Make the Body the Honest Ground of Life

• Keep: You did not hide the body’s signals: 85.2kg, ramen, 4 chicken legs, 2 pastas, and no exercise.
• Problem: Celebratory overeating was clear enough to write as today’s loss, and the body absorbed the excitement of the first job.
• Try: There is no need to scold the body, but today’s meals prove that even joy can be released in a way that damages the body.
• Question: Was your body celebrated today, or was it overworked while processing your emotions for you?

Mentality: Viktor Frankl | To Hold Meaning Even in Suffering

• Keep: You did not write the first developer acceptance as simple joy only; you also gave meaning to the weak portfolio and the reality of new-hire pay.
• Problem: The disappointment that this is not a regular full-time position and the burden of having no senior developer remain; expectation does not erase that anxiety completely.
• Try: Today’s meaning is not in having gained perfect conditions, but in choosing the first real-world experience within imperfect conditions.
• Question: Even if the conditions are not perfect, where does the responsibility to make this experience a meaningful chapter of your life come from?

Philosophy: Nietzsche | To Live as a Peaceful Übermensch with Jesus

• Keep: You did not overvalue yourself while drunk on AI productivity; you admitted the lack of portfolio proof and your position as a new hire.
• Problem: The reality that “this is not a pure software company” may wound your pride, but if that wound becomes cynicism, the direction of your strength is lost.
• Try: Today’s self-overcoming is not choosing a more impressive signboard, but turning your strength into actual results even in a small experimental ground.
• Question: Do you want to gain the name developer, or do you want a field that trains you even if the name looks modest?

Inner Faith: Augustine | To Set the Order of Love Right

• Keep: You kept the joy of acceptance, the disappointment about conditions, and the expectation for experience within one record. You did not simply hide your heart before God.
• Problem: Celebratory overeating may be a trace that gratitude flowed first toward desire before passing through the body rightly.
• Try: Do not use today’s grace as self-display or compensation for anxiety; see the opened path with a humble receiving heart.
• Question: Did your love today face the path God opened, or did it face the self proven by acceptance?

Practical Faith: Bonhoeffer | To Live by Responsibility Beyond Cheap Grace

• Keep: Beyond confirming the start, you actually handled delayed responsibilities: the contributed-property report, donation transfer, and church supply purchase.
• Problem: Faithful responsibility does not end at the emotion of acceptance; it must show up even in the ambiguous role of 50% development and 50% IT support.
• Try: Read today’s obedience not as “I got into a good company,” but as refusing to avoid the small and complex responsibilities of the given place.
• Question: Will you receive this first workplace only as a gift of grace, or also as a narrow road of responsibility?

GPT-5.5’s Recommended Bible Verses

Proverbs 16:9 (KRV, translated)
A person may plan their way in the heart, but the one who directs their steps is the LORD.

Context: In the wisdom teaching of Proverbs, this verse holds together human planning and the Lord’s guidance.

Reason for quoting: You confirmed the company you will join today, but it helps you hold that the meaning of this path and the next steps must still be received before God.

Colossians 3:23 (KRV, translated)
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as for the Lord and not for people.

Context: Paul is exhorting how the new life should appear in real relationships at home and at work.

Reason for quoting: Even if this is an internal MVP and IT support role rather than a pure software company, it points you to carry it out as unto the Lord, not only for human evaluation.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (KRV, translated)
Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all for the glory of God.

Context: Paul places Christian freedom, conscience, and everyday choices under the standard of God’s glory.

Reason for quoting: The joy of your first job, the overeating, and the work ahead are not outside faith; they are parts of life to handle before God.