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Am I the only one...

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who gets so sick of web design sometimes that you just want to kill somebody? Man I'm tired of my job. I need a vacation!
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:who gets so sick of web design sometimes that you just want to kill somebody? Man I'm tired of my job. I need a vacation!
Happens to everyone. It's usually when I'm stuck on the same task for ages that it starts to get tedious and I think bah!... I love it when I start on a new project though.... one of the reasons I love my job is that it's always changing. Most often, one day at work is not the same as any other and of course, I like to use my brain :D
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yes, my friend... you hit the nail on the head. I've been working on this stupid museum website for way too long. It's boring and tedious and I'm not even like 1/4 through it. bleh!
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Post by s.dot »

i must say i haven't encountered this problem yet :P

then again i code for fun and in my spare time, so its more of a hobby

if I HAD to do something, i'd probably feel the same way
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I've been working on the same project for over 4 months and it gets really boring, I think feyd has spent almost a year writing a framework.. it'd be interesting to see how he manages to cope with that, although sometimes I'll just take days off or work on a side-project if stuff gets too boring. Sometimes I hate changing it up sometimes I prefer it.
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the framework I was working on was at my old job. I had been working on it for about eight months when I left. Since I'm not there anymore, I'm working on ~personal projects, some with other board members and some I've been "dropping hints" about off and on. ;)

Anyways, I've had my spells with it driving me nuts, but it's not really working on the same thing ad nauseum, more the amount of time spent daily that burns me out.
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Well I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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Man... this is another one of those days. I can't even stand to look at PHP today. *strangles self*
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Yeah, i'm currently in a two-week break ;) After this week i'll need to work 5 + 4 weeks and then it's time for another break ;)
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the part that always gets me when doing a project is the final little tid-bits at the end and the little customer tweaks, basically all the clean up, I just want to get onto the next project.

Break, I can't afford a break, well I am going to Legoland with my niece so I guess that counts as a break but it is only over the weekend.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Man... this is another one of those days. I can't even stand to look at PHP today. *strangles self*
I've never got tired of development, however I do sometimes want to strangle myself when I see someone else's code.
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yea... I am working on somebody else's SLOPPY SLOPPY SLOPPY code. Wow it sucks.
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Post by Benjamin »

I've found that the sloppy code is usually the easiest to fix because the programmer wasn't very good anyway so it's all really simple code to go through.
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no, I know him... he's a good programmer, but he picked this project up from a bad programmer and he was just in a VERY big hurry when he was doing this I'm sure. He cuts corners when he's in a hurry. There are functions that are redefined in subfolders and called from two different locations (have no idea why)... it's a mess.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:no, I know him... he's a good programmer, but he picked this project up from a bad programmer and he was just in a VERY big hurry when he was doing this I'm sure. He cuts corners when he's in a hurry. There are functions that are redefined in subfolders and called from two different locations (have no idea why)... it's a mess.
That sounds like more work rather than taking shortcuts 8O
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