life was simpler when I coded for money
dark, lonely thoughts...
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it's been over a year, long enough that I've started wondering about it again. seriously, I think I might miss it just a bit, but maybe that's the nostalgia speaking. or the rationalization engine spinning up
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someday I think I'll probably run out of financial runway (unless something totally unforeseen works out), leaving me with a practical money problem. selling my labor will likely be the solution, and coding will likely be the most practical one
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I miss my old colleagues! I miss the old office!
but it was also really fucking tough. the "40 hour workweek" (I don't think it was really that for many of us, maybe that's too honest) was unreasonably hard for me to hold down
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guess I'm outing myself. there was this feeling that I'd do 15 hours/wk of actual work and spend another 60 hours/wk stressing my ass off, which was draining, psychologically corrosive, and really the outcome of my own faults and shortcomings
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