[rescue] Career Rescue (was DEC Pro 350, or something)

[Derrick Daugherty]

It's rumored that around Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:05:53PM -0700
James Lockwood <james at foonly.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Derrick Daugherty wrote:
> 
> You can always turn time into money, but you can't always turn money into
> time.  Looking back on the past few years it seems absurd for me to have
> poured my life into work, making huge salaries which were almost
> immediately bled out of me by the high cost of living and brutal commutes.
> If you don't have time to enjoy life, what's the point?
> 
> -James

This has definitely been occupying many cycles in my mind the past 8
months.  Before I got into a computer related job I managed an indie cd
shop..sure it was great, I did whatever I wanted, but I was absolutely
poor.  At that time, I kept recalling a line from a Weird Al song:  "If
money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it."

Now after spending three days straight working to meet deadlines..
working months on end with no weekend and 15 hr days, what do I have to
show for it?  The pride I had in my work is gone because the company is
gone.  It's simply not worth it to be that aggressive unless you're the
CTO or one of the founders etc.

Moral of the story?  Find a job at a big stable place with enough admins
that you can take a vacation w/o getting called every 30 minutes.

I almost wish there would be an EMP attack, too bad it affects
life-support systems too :(

^D