I've been experiencing some burnout as of late... Projects didn't quite go as expected... more work.... coupled with severe financial strain...
My head hurts just writing about it... Yves On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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 <sor...@gmail.com> 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/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/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:301553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
