Spoiled Developer
It’s easy to be spoiled as a developer. You can quickly get used to having a team around you, database administrators, server guys, webmasters, copywriters, designers, front-end coders, interface/usability people …
While it is fun learning everything from scratch all over again now I am working in LAMP, sometimes I miss being able to lean across a desk and just get answers. Of course I wouldn’t trade being able to see my wife and daughter any time I like, but it is an unexpected downside of working from home.
Now you could say IM/email partially solve this but that supposes you have people on your contact list that
- you are SURE are happy to receive your random shouts of geek pain
- have the answers
- know who you are
Because while I have people on my contacts who meet a couple of those criteria but not all three (mainly (1) is the sticking point) I have found myself doing stuff I haven’t done in ages; read technical books and visit forums. Just today my Apache books arrived. Since I stopped working on books I have barely even glanced at one, now I am actually properly reading them again (and enjoying it which is even more scary).
It really is like it’s the 90’s all over again. Exciting stuff.
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