Listen to this wisdom. I used to be a heart and soul person and it burned me out real bad. I left a smaller startup at a point where I was handling several projects at the same time and I felt guilty about dumping all of it on my coworkers. I thought I was vital to the company but I was quickly forgotten and replaced. I don’t know why I ever cared so much. It was software I’d never use in my own life and it wasn’t important to the people who did.

Save the passion for your personal projects and try to find something low stress to pay the bills

In Soviet Russia memory manages you!

Her friends don’t appreciate semantic drift. She’s innovating the language.

Nick Mullen is my best friend

I’m not the person you replied to but their experience sounds like mine. I agree 100% with that. I really enjoy making my own tools and figuring out things for myself but what I find interesting and useful is rarely what other people care about.

I’ll lose myself for hours making and axe handle with hand tools or cobbling together my own Linux desktop for the hell of it but creating yet another form to validate on a web app I have no need for is like pulling teeth.

I wish I could be someone’s garden hermit and just grow flax and contribute to open source projects

At least most of us don’t need to worry about time dilation caused by relatively yet. Have fun with that, space faring developers.

Most of Battlefield Earth is shot diagonally and no one has complained about that fine film

I heard they’re responsible for a majority of oak trees because of this. They’re just out there absent mindedly sowing seeds

I was born in America and had to do absolutely nothing to be better off than at least 3 billion people. I’m very lucky and this system is completely unfair