It was 4 months ago. A company that I wish to see myself heading towards my dream (Vancouver, Canada). It was the first startup that I have entered. The team are all seniors and I applied to be a programmer. When I started, I found out that my 3 years experience in Ruby on Rails is not enough for me to match my seniors. So I started as a junior programmer. But I didn't start work as what the job that I applied to. First I was sent to work on customer service. Answered tickets, answer calls, learn the product, etc.

As I continue on the job I was changed to QA (Quality Assurance) I haven't question why I have change roles or responsibility. I remember that it was on the contract but I haven't signed it because they forgot to give it and even remind them of it repeatedly. Anyway, after sometime I go on errands checking on the devices that run the app, do some test then report.

I wasn't happy about what I was doing and the seniors are very busy programming. Although they offered to give me a mentor but it didn't happen. It was a pressure to learn programming at the same time when you were exhausted doing work for 12 hours 6 days a week. So I wasn't able to really focus on programming as I start to burn out due to the long work hours. Then after a while they found a person that is more suited in QA. Eventually, I was moved to data entry position. At that time I know that it's time to quit. Then, Monday morning they asked if when am I leaving.

I learned a lot at the startup and also how organized the developers take bugs, feature and enhancement. And then I started to do my startup. It's a challenge but because of my learning form the startup, I was able to get an idea to move from programmer to entrepreneur.