Missing the professional life
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Any plans to get a life? :laugh:
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
life is overrated. In my free time I tend to work on my own projects or even on what I'm working at my company. There's no problem in missing the professional life. It's what you do.
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I have taken the last year off to do yet another big chunk of work on the house, its a long term project, but I am starting to really miss the professional life of software engineering; discussing designs, meeting with clients, developing great solutions, working with complex hardware. I really miss it. I think I need to put the next chunk of work off till late next year and get back to what I enjoy. Anyone else feel the same after taking time off?
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For me that's more than made up for by the removal of 2hrs of commuting every day, and the ability to set my own hours. Beth & both work from home and we really enjoy it - the flexibility we have allows us to take a couple of hours out every afternoon to go running and that in itself has proven to make a big difference to to way we feel about life (not to mention getting us far fitter). The payoff is that I typically work a 5-6 hr day, and get more done in that time than I would in 8 hrs at a desk in a typical office.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Appreciation of LIFE comes with family and kids. Without that WORK is LIFE.
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I have taken the last year off to do yet another big chunk of work on the house, its a long term project, but I am starting to really miss the professional life of software engineering; discussing designs, meeting with clients, developing great solutions, working with complex hardware. I really miss it. I think I need to put the next chunk of work off till late next year and get back to what I enjoy. Anyone else feel the same after taking time off?
I am a freelancer, working from home and living alone. If I have no work to do, I feel alone. So I like to keep myself busy in activities like reading news online, calling friends and relatives or even go to meet them, gardening, cleaning my house, cycling, building software for own use, writing programming/IT related blog article etc. etc. Sometimes if I get more than 3 work-free days then I even visit friends and relatives if they are living in a different remote cities, and live with each of them for 1 or 2 days. What I want to say is, I just miss life if I have nothing to do.
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When I'm (forced to) take a vacation, I spend almost all of my time off working on my own software projects. :~ /ravi
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Software development is a stimulant like any other drug. After finishing a project, you will experience withdrawals.
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Software development is a stimulant like any other drug. After finishing a project, you will experience withdrawals.
Member 7980583 wrote:
After finishing a project, you will experience withdrawals.
I never seem to be "between" projects - I'm always working on improving an existing app or building something new. At least that's how it's been for the past 30 years. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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I have taken the last year off to do yet another big chunk of work on the house, its a long term project, but I am starting to really miss the professional life of software engineering; discussing designs, meeting with clients, developing great solutions, working with complex hardware. I really miss it. I think I need to put the next chunk of work off till late next year and get back to what I enjoy. Anyone else feel the same after taking time off?
I also tried to stay away from the Professional world for almost 2 years. I had to do that because of my wife's health issues. So I spent 2 year lecturing about software subjects and programming in an Engineering college just to keep myself up to date and to stay close to technical stuff. I am back in my professional life now(since almost a year) and I think I am meant for this only. I can totally imagine how you must be feeling. And believe me, when you get back on the driving wheel, you are gonna feel so elephanting awesome.
Every now and then say, "What the Elephant." "What the Elephant" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
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For me that's more than made up for by the removal of 2hrs of commuting every day, and the ability to set my own hours. Beth & both work from home and we really enjoy it - the flexibility we have allows us to take a couple of hours out every afternoon to go running and that in itself has proven to make a big difference to to way we feel about life (not to mention getting us far fitter). The payoff is that I typically work a 5-6 hr day, and get more done in that time than I would in 8 hrs at a desk in a typical office.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Any plans to get a life? :laugh:
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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For me that's more than made up for by the removal of 2hrs of commuting every day, and the ability to set my own hours. Beth & both work from home and we really enjoy it - the flexibility we have allows us to take a couple of hours out every afternoon to go running and that in itself has proven to make a big difference to to way we feel about life (not to mention getting us far fitter). The payoff is that I typically work a 5-6 hr day, and get more done in that time than I would in 8 hrs at a desk in a typical office.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
After 10 years of two hour a day commutes, the 30 second commute to my basement to telecommute was wonderful. I also lost 40 lbs because I was not getting together with the guys for morning and afternoon breaks in the cafeteria. I was able to work my "normal" hours of 8pm to 6am. And being able to do things around the house because I had two extra hours in my day was great. Not commuting to work recovered 12 1/2 work weeks a year.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I have taken the last year off to do yet another big chunk of work on the house, its a long term project, but I am starting to really miss the professional life of software engineering; discussing designs, meeting with clients, developing great solutions, working with complex hardware. I really miss it. I think I need to put the next chunk of work off till late next year and get back to what I enjoy. Anyone else feel the same after taking time off?
It doesn't really require time off. If I'm doing enhancement work, I'm loving it. But if I have to transition to support work for any length of time, I miss it then as well. It goes from joyous to stressful, especially on projects where insufficient infrastructure planning was done...
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Time away from the computer is wasted time.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
BrainiacV wrote:
Time away from the computer is wasted time.
Not true! Some project also need hardware, so you occasionally need to spend some time in the workshop. And there's alwas beer, and beer doesn't go well with coding ...
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BrainiacV wrote:
Time away from the computer is wasted time.
Not true! Some project also need hardware, so you occasionally need to spend some time in the workshop. And there's alwas beer, and beer doesn't go well with coding ...
True, I used to get razzed for the amount of time and number of trips I had to make to Radio Shack (before they became a cellphone store) to get parts for the conveyor systems I'd be working on. As to beer, my usual consumption was a beer a month, just to be sociable, but since a bout with medically induced pancreatitus (can you say doctor phuqueup?) and a liver transplant, even that is now denied me. Now if you have some combustible materials for "Gamma Sky Sessions", ... oh wait, I can't do that anymore either. I guess I'll have to console myself at the console.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I have taken the last year off to do yet another big chunk of work on the house, its a long term project, but I am starting to really miss the professional life of software engineering; discussing designs, meeting with clients, developing great solutions, working with complex hardware. I really miss it. I think I need to put the next chunk of work off till late next year and get back to what I enjoy. Anyone else feel the same after taking time off?
been through the same experience for a year too after I quit my last job, a year of looking for partners to raise up a tech company. It's difficult to work from home for that long period, not going out everyday is sometimes painful, but I try to stay up-to-date in programming stuff. That not-having expected monthly pay is painful too, now surviving thanks to my parents and my savings. Have chosen office, strategic alliances, suppliers, and a marketing plan, so now returning to action, heading a team of amazing people :D
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