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So, I'm at a stage in my life where I'm considering what I've done and where I'm headed, a midlife crisis of sorts. I'm not happy at my current job (which is kinda killing my passion for software development) and I have loads of diy work at home to do. I'm considering taking a few months off just to catch up with things and have a bit of a holiday. I'm not sure what I'll do next, either look for a new job or even possibly start something of my own (I have an idea which i think is feasible). It's a bit of a daunting thing to do, but so far everyone I spoke to has been quite encouraging about it.
Who here has taken a sabbatical? Did you go back to software dev or do something else entirely?
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I made the mistake of not getting out of a bad job quickly enough. Don't wait too long. Get out of there as fast as you can before you get really serious problems.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah, I've done that as well, staying longer than I should have. The salary was good and it was a comfortable environment even with the frustrations. I actually liked the project and working on it, I just didn't like some things that management did, like bad communication. In the end they retrenched some people and basically paid me to leave. At this stage I really feel like I need to take a step back and have a holiday, which I never had between changing jobs 8 months ago. I also have very little interest in the current project I'm working on which does make it difficult to put in the effort that I'd actually like to. Maybe I'll feel different after having some time off.
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Start your own co.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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It's very tempting!
I've heard that working for yourself is the worst boss you can have 
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Jacquers wrote: Who here has taken a sabbatical
Between every contract, sometimes for half a year when I was doing up the house (as in an entire renovation and landscaping the garden).
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Yes, I took a year or so out at one point, not really to so anything specific beyond saving my sanity.
During that time I probably came to realise that it wasn't really software development that I hated, it was just the general crud that comes with any kind of job - office politics, excessive hours, lousy work-spaces and more human contact than I'd ever opt for and a general feeling that life would be better spent either doing something more lasting and meaningful or simply lying in a field.
I have come back into it and I'm quite happy where I am, though it take a couple of jobs from Hell to get back into the game and all in all, the financial cost of that year off has actually been very high.
I kind of enjoy coding but in truth, if I won the lottery, I'd probably never write another line of code in my life (I've never been one of those people who writes code for fun) but given that I'm no spring chicken, I've been doing it for donkey's years, I've got no qualifications and I'm pretty good at doing it - there's not really anything else I could do that's going to get me anything over minimum wage.
Sometimes, a change is as good as a rest and looking back on it now, what I should have done was look for a new gig - maybe with a delayed start - before I got to the point of being so fried that I couldn't contemplate it. The change often doesn't need to be one of career, though, just a new place to do what you do or perhaps something that veers off at a bit of a tangent from it.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Hi All,
I had the day off yesterday, did various things including a trip to the dentist (less said the better, suffice to say I am now looking at food thinking will it send me to orbit!) so didn't realise I had the ISTQB results for a three day course I took. The thing is the main thing I learnt was how to figure out what the question was asking. Why is it seen as a 'good thing' when all it does is find is really test your translation.
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glennPattonWork wrote: I am now looking at food thinking will it send me to orbit!
Quick, offer your services to NASA as long as they still don't have any system of their own!
And here is something to comfort you: Dentist Song[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The worst bit was the descaling, I swear he was using a Dremel milling bit...
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Used that myself yesterday, but not on someone's teeth. 
It was my currently favorite toy[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Cue 'Ride of the Valkeryi' & Charlie don't surf!
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The surfing part is already on the way to someone else. I participate in a model building contest (topic: Vietnam) and originally wanted to put surfboards on the landing skids. Unfortunately you can have weapons or surfboards, but there is not enough room for both. If you look at the scene from the movie, you will see that it's not the gunships that carry the surfboards.
Another guy was building Kilgore's command Huey at a smaller scale, so I printed the surfboards for him and sent them by mail. But yes, at least I know the soundtrack for the maiden flight.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I hate that! My tongue never seems to fit for a week afterwards...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You have your tongue descaled?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The filling was fine, the descale hurt. Why don't they do what gets done to kettles use an Acid. Hmmm maybe not such a good plan...I have seen way too many Tooth Paste adds...
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Big money fashion consumed a buzz (9)
Sorry I didn't post yesterday. Codeproject was down for me all day yesterday from my work. Have no idea why. Could see it was up from my phone but didn't know my log in details.
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Bombinate ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Shirley this is the latest buzzword for managers to use wrong.
"Let's bombinate Absurdistan and then make a parking lot out of it."
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I mean the AI he has in his signature. I had to do a search by signature, as we had yesterday and had to binary click (C) through 122 pages of Marc's postings before finding the first results I was looking for. And that in less than 10 months. How do you put artificial intelligence into the signature, anyway?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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AI in signature? 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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It's a very clever signature.
Unlike CodeWraith's, which is mostly thinking about food.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: which is mostly thinking about food.
Yum! Fried cat! Bratkatze!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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