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I've been stepping completely away from work once I'm home. Been liberating. A few months ago my 2.5 year old came into my room wanting to tell me about his day at 730PM and I got upset at him for interrupting me, I was in the middle of working out some issue with istio or someshit.
Anyways, the look he gave me when I snapped at him(not too bad, a "what Leo?! WHAT?!") is forever going to be in my soul.
Since then I just stopped working at 4-4:30 and any issues that may arise wait until my kids and wife are in bed. It was a bit hard at first, but I just turned down the noise. Disabled slack from my phone and told people if they really need me to CALL me. And you know us devs would rather die than call someone.
I feel good. I do. And I think you'll find it rewarding as well. -
We all have our ups and downs even at productivity. Nothing alarming if things are ahead of schedule. 🙂
@duckWit What's the name of the theme you are using? I like the colours! 😀 -
@FuzzyMyztiq very wise words, I appreciate your sincerity. Just the other day I had a very similar experience and just like yours it will be forever haunting. My oldest is 8, and it has already begun to terrify me that half her life at home with us is almost up and I have spent so.many.days.and.nights shut away from them. It was all arguably important work, but man, so easy for what's truly the most important to be assigned an undeserving priority and forgotten about.
Thanks for chiming in. Tomorrow will be different. -
@duckWit You're mighty welcome!
I had an inkling it was VS, I wasn't 100% sure about it. I love it too! 😎
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
The last several weeks I've been coding at 100%, most all day and well into the night. Today, I just can't.
Things I have done today:
*Watched Netflix.
*Walked around outside a bit.
*Let my 18 month old daughter type all over my code
* Closed mysterious dialogs and menus daughter opened up that I couldn't open if I tried
*Watched the Mets score 10 runs on the Phillies in the top of the 5th inning
*Browsed devRant
*Stared at stuff
* Cleaned up a few thousand emails out of my inbox
* Added filters to never see them again
* Noted impending deadlines on the calendar
* Stared at more stuff
In the meantime so many more ideas have come flooding in on how to proceed with these various features I'm working on. Can't even run from work.
So, no such thing as laziness, because apparent laziness is also productive. The exhaustion becomes doubly frustrating because there's just no way to physically keep up with the breakthroughs.
I'm still just staring out the window. It's raining now. Today is done.
rant
burnout
tired