Last 2 Weeks, Nothing
I've been having the hardest time doing any work on my designer service over the last two weeks. My day job is very demanding mentally (working hard and late), and I'm buying a house and (trying) to sell my existing one. Basically over the last 2 weeks, the thought of more work at the end of the day is driving me crazy.
I sat down at 9:30 pm to do some work. I couldn't jump right in, so I hit the News Reader, then Digg, and then a few other sites. Now it's 10:30 pm. It's not that reading/surfing is distracting me from my work. It's that I'm having a hard time gearing up to work.
Am I finally running out of steam?
I've been at this, 1-man-software-startup-while-working-full-time-thing, for quite some time now. (Farther back than this blog goes. I've been "working on something" since I left college 4 and half years ago with sporadic multi-month breaks.)
I can't give up now.
I've come to far.
Let me see if I can't write some code tonight.
(11:45 pm update: I spent the last hour writing code. I finished implementing the active/inactive User management feature. I added some checkboxes, wrote some login/security code, and through in a business rule - you can't have less than 1 active Administrator. At least I made some progress. I got to check-off another item on my task list!)
I sat down at 9:30 pm to do some work. I couldn't jump right in, so I hit the News Reader, then Digg, and then a few other sites. Now it's 10:30 pm. It's not that reading/surfing is distracting me from my work. It's that I'm having a hard time gearing up to work.
Am I finally running out of steam?
I've been at this, 1-man-software-startup-while-working-full-time-thing, for quite some time now. (Farther back than this blog goes. I've been "working on something" since I left college 4 and half years ago with sporadic multi-month breaks.)
I can't give up now.
I've come to far.
Let me see if I can't write some code tonight.
(11:45 pm update: I spent the last hour writing code. I finished implementing the active/inactive User management feature. I added some checkboxes, wrote some login/security code, and through in a business rule - you can't have less than 1 active Administrator. At least I made some progress. I got to check-off another item on my task list!)
posted by Michael Sica at
10:32 PM
2 Comments:
Don't give yourself such a hard time, man. Buying a house is one of the most stressful things in life! Or maybe that's just in the UK. And you've got to keep at the day job to pay the bills.
I know what you mean about gearing up for work, I'm the same. I find that it's best not to build it up in your mind as this big important thing - remember, it's supposed to be fun! Start off by tackling something really simple that you know you can get done. For example, last night I eased myself into some coding by deciding to take some tables that I'm displaying and change them so the data is displayed in the correct order. Okay so that's a trival thing to do using ActiveRecord, but it got me going and was another step along the journey. I then went on to tackle something bigger.
Anyway, you got some code written, so that's the main thing. Imagine would you would have got done in that hour if you were still using J2EE - very little probably!
Thanks John.
Yeah, if I was using J2EE, I'd probably still be configuring my layer abstractions factory pattern xml thingy. ;)
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