Late Night Coding
Coding is a strange thing with me. I have to be in the right mood, or it just doesn’t come out right. Unfortunately this means that sometimes I end up getting into the groove just when I am about to finish working for the day. This leads to disasters where I look up and realize that it is two in the morning, and I have been working for the past 16 hours straight.
On the plus side that more than makes up for the days that I am unable to get in even five hours in a row thanks to dealing with the business side of working for myself.
I’m still trying to decide if this is a positive or negative of working from home.
June 2nd, 2007 at 16:11
I find that I work similarly. Though the way I look at it, often it’s the period of time I spend not programming that seems to enable subsequent sustained programming efforts.
That is, a common pattern seems to be spending several days not programming, and usually not even thinking about the problem I’m working on, followed by a feeling of things clicking together or it just being time to get started, after which I can spend several days doing nothing but intense coding. I think my mind is pretty busy working on the problem even when I’m not aware of it.
At first I found this disconcerting, but eventually I accepted it as just being the way I naturally work. And an advantage of working from home is that nobody else needs to see my work process and be disconcerted by it themselves–Playing hours of video games is just part of my work process, man.
June 4th, 2007 at 23:57
I think that’s a pretty common pattern. I have to say though, after the first year of working from home I had to put the kibosh on video-games during the day. I’m pretty sure it went from “thinking about stuff while taking a break” to “playing video games all week and programming like mad on the weekend to catch up”. Heh, no more video games between 9 and 5 for me.
June 5th, 2007 at 09:52
I’m still trying to decide if this is a positive or negative of working from home.
Well, at least after working a 16-hour day at home, you don’t have to drive back to your house; you can just fall into bed.