Sometimes ... I wish I could quit
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
Why not take the security job, and spend the night programming. Get paid twice over. Then with the extra cash take a few weeks off each year to read etc. -Richard
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
giuchici wrote:
If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share.
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You could give up sleep and do both...
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" John Scalzi
Real men need no REM sleep.
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giuchici wrote:
If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share.
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
Talk the bean-counters into down-grading your computers. At the same time, insist on the latest software technology. Then you will have plenty of time to read classic literature: between key-presses in some cases.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
This is why programming is my hobby. If I did it for a living I'd probably hate it. :-D
If Barney Frank eats a fruitcake, is it cannibalism?
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
If you are anything like me, you spend about 7 out of 8 hours a day on Code Project. Instead, spend that reading.
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
Couldn't you do that on weekends or evenings? (Not me - I write code in my spare time. :sigh:) /ravi
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
Is this a good time to point out that the rest of your life is going to be ruled by a 1cm2 piece of silicon?
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP
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Is this a good time to point out that the rest of your life is going to be ruled by a 1cm2 piece of silicon?
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP
Trollslayer wrote:
your life is going to be ruled by a 1cm2 piece of silicon?
Oh come on, I'm sure there's more silicon than that in them!! Oh wait, you mean computers...
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
1. Don't waste time at work. And yes. I AM aware of the irony of posting this at 8 in the morning from my work PC, first thing. But this is my wake-up, coffee-and-sandwich period. 2. Minimise commute, or combine commute with exercise by cycling. Or if you can get a train, so that. I read at least a book a week purrely by reading on my commute, which is a 40-minute train ride. 3. Get a routine going on (see 2) 4. Get up early. Leave work early. see 3. 5. Don't get married. (too late for some) 6. Don't have kids. (see 5) 7. Don't accept jobs that require you to stay late as a matter of course. That is and always has been social abuse. 8. Get Organised.
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
The trouble is that on a night-watchman's salary you'd soon run out of books, and wouldn't be able to afford more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
Why security guard? Why not data center operator or some such thing ? After you are done with the nightly routine maintenance tasks you are pretty much free.
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
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Talk the bean-counters into down-grading your computers. At the same time, insist on the latest software technology. Then you will have plenty of time to read classic literature: between key-presses in some cases.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
Talk the bean-counters into down-grading your computers.
At the same time, insist on the latest software technology.
Then you will have plenty of time to read classic literature: between key-presses in some cases.Have you worked at the same places as I have? The exception is that the bean counters buy "state of the art" computers, or at least they where that two years before the companies I've wirked for bought them. So they've made away with the "down-grading" part... :doh:
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Is this a good time to point out that the rest of your life is going to be ruled by a 1cm2 piece of silicon?
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP
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Why security guard? Why not data center operator or some such thing ? After you are done with the nightly routine maintenance tasks you are pretty much free.
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
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I love programming, coding, development whatever you want to call it with all that potential to create so much with so less ... physical effort I mean: D. But some days, like today I dream about one of those night shift security guard jobs so I can read again a literature book or catch up on some movies or TV shows I grossly neglected lately (10+ years). If there's any of you that has a recipe that allows doing those and keep my current occupation please share. :sigh:
giuchici
I'll admit there have been days where I want to give up all technology, get a job as a janitor/handyman for some little hole in the wall mom and pop owned convenience store located on the Mediterranean coast, where I can rent the one-room flat just above the store. And the only electronics around me is small FM radio.
