I don't consider myself an old developer yet I definitely know the feeling of having far more things which I am interested in than having time to do them. I don't have children which makes me feel worse considering that I should have some time on my hands and I absolutely don't. I feel bad listening to podcast where people rave about new languages like Groovy and Scala and Clojure knowing that I have never had the opportunity to try them out. I am juggling so much right now I am having a hard time keeping on top of it so taking time out to learn new languages when I don't have a specific need to use them is hard to justify. It is not that I am not interested, I am very interested and think I should learn them but I am struggling to find time. I have never finished learning JavaFX properly.
I have a neurotic Cat for what it is worth. It seems to know when I am running late and choose to be especially awkward. It knows it has to go out when I go to work due to not being trusted not to use the carpet as a toilet when I am not around. I am running late in the morning and it chooses to be especially defiant running from bed to bed and settling itself down on them in rebellion against going outside. I get downstairs to find it has been sick all over the carpet and think "I could do without this right now". I can have some difficulty because I end up getting dumped on by members of my local Church all the time as tech support. I will get calls or messages on my answering machine "I am having a problem with my computer" to which I think "I don't care!" but I am too nice to say that so the story ends with me going around and having to figure out what the problem is even though I have a backlog of other things I need to get done. It seems like this week everyone has decided to do it at once. Right now I am worried because I am doing a project over the summer which needs to be ready before the start of the new term. The situation was supposed to be that this took priority and my research would be put on the back burner while I got this done. Now it seems to be more like I am expected to keep the research moving as well and have something ready to demo in the coming weeks. On top of this I keep being chased about sorting out supplementary assessment for the Internet Studies I covered. I get criticised by some family members for trying to juggle too much and that I need some time to relax. Great in theory but doesn't seem to work out too well. I am single and at this rate I will be for now and ever more because who has time for a relationship right now. I use my bus commute to read up on what I can. Everyone is ganging up on me.....gaaaaahhhhhh.......*explodes* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
