Hard work is ennobling. Good job
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> So tomorrow is the final release candidate build for
> the product I've been working on. And it's been a bit
> of a nightmare release, in which the developers
> basically reinvented the entire infrastructure and
> philosophy of the product. Because hubris runs high
> (and somewhat deservedly) among this particular set
> of developers, they always overestimate what they
> can squeeze into the release and underestimate how
> long it will take them to do so. This means that
> Documentation bites the big one.
>
> I won't go into the particulars, but suffice it to
> say that I've worked 191 hours over the last two weeks.
> Not hardly yer average French 35-hour workweek.
>
> But I finished. Praise the Lord and pass the Lagavulin.
>
> I have never missed a software deadline. Not once, in
> almost 30 years in the business. I just do DO missing
> deadlines, or causing them to slip.
>
> Writing documentation is a service profession, like
> waiting tables or fixing other people's cars. Only
> trouble is, writing doc has been likened to "Trying
> to fix a tire on a moving car." The software keeps
> changing, as you're trying to write the definitive
> guide to what it is, what it looks like, and how
> to use it. It would drive a lesser man crazy.
>
> No comments here, please. :-)
>
> And the funny thing is, it was a heckuva ride, and
> a heckuva lot of fun. I really GET OFF on doing a
> good job.
>
> Whatever you may think of him or say of him, I owe
> a lot of this 'tude about work to Rama, Dr. Frederick
> Lenz. Dude taught me that hard work was the next best
> thing to samadhi. And that if you do your work well
> enough, it can actually lead to samadhi. Your work
> becomes, in essence, your Way.
>
> Some people make a distinction between their "work
> lives" and their "spiritual lives." They have what
> they call Day Jobs. I have a Way Job.
>
