Disconnecting is Going to be Hard

I knew disconnecting was going to be hard.

After working non-stop for the better part of the last 10 years. Today is my first day without a job, ask me how I started the day? Working.

I swear it was just one bug-fix and a quick deploy. It made me realize that you can’t kick a habit that easily. Not that there is anything wrong with working.

When you spend 10 hours per day almost everyday working, you just don’t really know what it’s like to not work. Your first instinct is to continue, because that is what gives you comfort.

I do have a problem with the lack of creativity that comes with the conditioning of the work schedule. Doing similar acts, at repeated intervals can’t be natural. I believe humans are meant to be much more ad-hoc than that.

I am ready for a change. I am ready to figure out what I really want to spend the rest of my life doing. A couple posts back I mentioned that I don’t feel like I was ever able to select a career. The time is now.

Do I want to program for the rest of my life? Do I want to own a restaurant? Do I want to be a teacher of some sort?

Ask yourself every morning: Do you want to do what you are doing for the rest of your life?

If the answer is no for more than a couple days straight, it’s time to make a drastic change.

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