With my left hand in a cast at the start of the semester, I was not off to a great start. To make matters worse, I was taking some rigorous programming courses, including Operating Systems, which required 30 hours of my time in one week at one point. By using the foot pedal, minimizing the typing that I needed to do, and using speech recognition with a Plantronics noise-filtering headset, I was able to complete my work for the semester. Fortunately, some of my programming courses allowed me to work with a partner, and I was able to focus more on design and code review as opposed to actually coding. Eventually, my hand healed and my two-year challenge with ergonomics in college ended.
During my senior year and for many years after college, I worked at a software startup company. As one of the first developers, technical specialists, and software architects at a startup company with a very small team, there was a lot of work to do, and my teammates and I had to wear many hats. For three years, I worked extremely hard. I worked more than ten hours a day, five to seven days a week to build the product-facing applications of our platform. The CEO of the company was surprised at my level of productivity and the hours of productivity I could output, both of which I attribute to being a computer athlete. During those years, I continued to have small aches and pains and made changes to my setup, equipment, and lifestyle to maintain pain-free computing and continue performing at my top level. As a result, I have dramatically improved my productivity and have developed and refined my concept of the computer athlete.
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