Last year was quite a challenging year to me as I was stuffed with works which I have never been acquainted to do. There were basically 2 parts - one part to deal with the systems, another to deal with the people. That's the scope of presales, in my way of explanation.
First, I'd like to comment about dealing with people. As a Scorpio who tends to be low-profile and keeps quiet and cool most the time, doing pre-sales activities which inherently means getting to know more people and hanging around with them, has been quite a daunting and scary job to me. Till now, I'm still trying to adjust myself to accomodate with the environment but I guess it's gonna take some time and (interpersonal) skill improvements.
Now let's talk about the systems side. I thought, as I've been thinking all along, until now, dealing with systems, or more specifically software, should be a very interesting and tireless task for me, like I was born to do it. But dealing with other people's systems? What I mean here is the vendors' systems. NO, not as much fun as I do it with my own hands (please get it 'straight'). Problems, problems, problems... Yes, I understand no system is perfect. But how about systems with fundamental in-built mistakes? Where the heck was QC? Who let this thing out to the market in the first place? All these questions then turned into doubts, against the vendors and ourselves.
So what's gonna change in year 2010? I really have no idea but to take the first step out into the war zone again. May angels watch over me all the time. Cheers~
