Yeah - at this point in my career I think it's totally normal to routinely go through cycles of burnout. They key is recognizing it and not letting it get the best of you. When I find myself replying "maybe" to invitations I get because I'm not sure if I will need to work that evening or not - that's a problem.
-Cameron On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow, exactly what I went through when I made the decision to hang up my > programming hat and go back into the Army. That and the fact that I feel > the military is my true calling. I was the same way. I was working eight > hours a day in the office then putting in the hours at home with my own > clients. At first it was fun. I thought "hell, I am having fun and I get > paid". It paid for a nice house, new cars, furniture, blah blah blah. > But the more I worked and the more money I made, the worse I felt. I too > would sit there at work and space out, doing in one hour what should > have taken me 15 minutes to do. Hulu.com was my undoing. I had dual > monitors so of course a show would be playing on one screen and > programming on the other. > I also discovered the wonders of a nice long vacation. The best was a > nice cruise I went on for a week. I did bring a POS laptop, but only to > download pictures from my digital camera. I came back to work recharged > and ready to go. > When my guard unit was deployed in '04-05 and I got back after 17 months > of no programming (except for the stuff I did on my laptop to keep my > skills up and to learn .NET/C#) I was again ready to take over the > world. Not even two years later and no vacations I was burnt out again > and went back to the military. I am very happy now but I feel the > programming bug hit my on occasion. I might play around with it in my > spare time when I get back home next week. > > Bruce > > Cameron Childress wrote: > > Blast from the past - Originally posted Tue, 27 Aug 2002 > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg41528.html > > > > Interesting to read a 7 year old post and still relate to it in many > ways. > > > > -Cameron > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301551 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
