After the unit tests begun, the first thing to do was to find accommodation. The low ranking employees reserved motel rooms or micro unit apartments, general manager level staff and above reserved studios. YongHo as an intern, stayed with manager An in a motel near Yangjae where the project was held.
“It’s almost done, sir.”
YongHo nodded at those words. He felt like doing physical labor after finishing his compulsory military service.
“Hahaha! That’s right, you’re correct! I also think that sometimes.”
“Why not me? Unpacking your belongings in a motel like this and doing the same tests and editing similar programs every single day, I sometimes wonder if being a programmer is really suited to me.”
Every day was a repetition of the same work.
But it wasn’t. The thing YongHo did the most after entering Mirae IT was simple bug fixing.
“But you have the skill, don’t you? You even work as an open source contributor.”
There weren’t many open source contributors in Korea.
“You can hear it from all over the office.”
YongHo’s skills weren’t great to the point of developing programs usable by the public from 1 to 10. He can work as an assistant, but it wasn’t to the point of developing newly introduced ideas or specifications. That was why he always worked with SungGyu when he did a part time job.
“It’s the most well-known website for programmers. Difficult questions and various bugs are posted frequently too. There is something called reputation score like there is points in Eaver KnowledgE. If you have a lot of those, some foreign companies will offer you a position for a project. It also helps when you want to enter a domestic company since the trend is to see activity history from websites like stack overfly and gethub.
YongHo also sometimes used his beginner-level English skills to barely translate and read them. However, he didn’t know it was that famous.
“There is not a single Korean.”
YongHo could only nod at those words. There was nothing wrong with it.
“You should, it will become busier starting next week.”
YongHo wanted say ‘it doesn’t need to get any busier, I think’ but he didn’t say it out loud.
“Well this… I only looked at the answers, I never looked at how the website worked.”
[email protected]/* */
“This isn’t as simple as I thought.”
“Let’s first answer some questions first.”
English.
If he didn’t run the program, then he wasn’t able to see any bugs on the bug window, and therefore he couldn’t find out the solution.
I annswer your question.
…But that was all self-justification.
“F*ck, English is compulsory. Might it have been better if my English skills increased after getting struck by lightning?”
After YongHo posted the answer while complaining, he opened his English grammar textbook for the first time in a while.
The office was noisy and chaotic as if everyone had measles.
“Build it quickly!”
Amidst all that, YongHo and HyeJin were trying their best to do their worth. Time and manpower was lacking and work was overflowing, so no one looked after YongHo and HyeJin.
The repetition of testing and editing everyday made YongHo, who had confidence in his stamina, to feel tired.
Now they were programming using sheer will power. Their minds were all hazy from not sleeping but their hands were moving according to their body’s memory.
As he was focused, he fixed too many errors. Some errors, he even edited it to its original condition.
YongHo, who fixed more bugs than he was given, looked around. Red eyes, disheveled hair, and the sour smell from not fully dried clothes were covering the room.
Commuting time was 9.a.m. But leaving time didn’t exist. Maybe due to feeling their limits, some people were laying their heads down on their desks even though it was work time.
From YongHo’s also thought the schedule was near impossible. The manager-level staff who were in their 40’s looked pitiful. The greasy hair and the bushy beard made him think of beggars. In the first place, YongHo didn’t understand why the schedule was set like this.
YongHo put down his stifled thoughts and focused on fixing bugs
Translator’s note
Regular chapter 4/4
NO YONGHO! ENGLISH IS EASY! FIXING BUGS IS WAAAAY MORE DIFFICULT! Don’t you dare say that again…
Also, micro unit apartments are very, VERY small rooms with just desk + bed in 3~5m^2 room. The bathroom, dining room, and the kitchen are shared)It is mostly used by examinees for the national exam or CSAT.
My novel is full of old men *sigh*. So far, how many women have appeared? lets see… Su Min, HyeJin, SuMin’s mom (who appeared for like one line), some female employees (who appeared for 1 paragraph) and YongHo’s mom? 3 ‘real’ females have appeared in this story…
Thx for reading!
Translator : Chamber
Proofreader : Maled