True, but still

[susandennis]

Insight from Mom in a note just now: "you need to work where there aren't any people."

Now, that's so not good. Have I really gotten that bad? I guess so.

I used to work at home - me in my jammies. I liked it. I loved the work. I'd get up early and get going and be heads down for hours and hours. The only program I ever wrote (besides Hello World) was a little VB thing that popped up every 30 minutes and yelled at me "get up and move!" Otherwise, I'd forget and at the end of 5 or 6 hours, I would be unable to move.

I was building websites and writing webpages and mining simple databases for web content back in the early days. Browsers were stupid so their weren't a whole lot of options. You just took the 4 or 5 things allowed and mixed and matched them. It captivated me.

I talked on the phone to clients maybe once a day and I got together with them maybe once a week or less. I only gave it up when browsers were getting smarter and I wasn't. I needed to work somewhere I could peek over someone's shoulder and ask 'so how do you do that?' or 'cool! would you show me that trick?'

But, I like coming to a place, too. I like having a high speed printer. I like having free soda. I like having Kenny make me laugh. However, while I never had much capacity for suffering fools, I have less now. And my criteria for what makes a fool is ever growing. I am not likeable because I don't like.

And, I'm not sure how I really feel about it. Does it bother me enough to fix it? Since I can't decide, I guess not.

Comments

[androkles.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about it. You're you.

[susandennis]

Thanks. I think you are right. I know you are. Thanks.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

You are you, and the ones who "get it" are worth knowing. The others not so much.

I find that I don't like wasting my time with people I don't like so much. Life is short, live it your way!!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I prefer to work alone, unfortunately I have trouble motivating myself.

sometimes mother knows best ...

[henare.livejournal.com]

and sometimes you just need to improve the quality of your coworkers. a chainsaw can help with this quite nicely...