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Another burnout post
burnout post I quit my last contracting gig in August with £40k in debt, no other income, and only a business idea (it failed). It was still the right decision.
The flipside of this is that programming for your own purposes is a truly exquisite feeling—some of the most exhilarating and satisfying days I’ve ever spent have been in front of the keyboard, having ideas, bringing them to life, seeing them on the screen, refining them, and massaging the code into shape like a sculpture. It’s based on ancestral health principles—eat mostly what our ancestors ate—and there is currently one item on the menu, sirloin steak fried in ghee on a bed of root vegetable mash with butter. Right now I’m sitting at my finely-adjusted desk setup in a warm & quiet home office, wondering with a mix of anxiety, anger, bitterness, resolve, and optimism about how all this will turn out.
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