Is there a way to do both? -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:12 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Burnout
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:301552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
