I can’t do this anymore. I can’t, I just can’t. No more midnight builds. No more 3AM debugging and then slip down the hall and into bed. No more laptop. No more wireless Internet access. I used to go to an office and do my work and if I had to work late, I stayed late, but when I went home I was done. I didn’t sit on the couch at 11:15 PM watching Futurama and check my webmail and get the news that the latest build failed and spend a frantic hour fixing it and rereleasing at 12:15 AM. I used to have a home life; now I have a home office. I used to come home from work and bitch about it for twenty minutes and get it out of my system and have the rest of the night for myself. I used to punch a clock. I didn’t make anything, I didn’t produce anything, I didn’t write anything, I just punched a clock and when I was done I was done and I went home or out or somewhere else, anywhere else, because it was after work and that’s what you did after work. Now there is no after work, there is no before work, there is no work day, no office, no clock. There is only one long continuous 24-hour day that is always work, always office, and I never punch in and I never punch out. I know the economy sucks and the market sucks and the computer field sucks and lots of people have no jobs, and you know what? You can have mine. I can’t do this anymore.
