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Silas (son of Silas):
I am working (as usual) and I just became overwhelmed with frustration. The only damned thing I want is to play a game on an arcade machine or more specifically MY arcade machine and I am sick and bloody tired of always having to put everyone and everything before my arcade project.

I have zero time to myself, zero cash (plenty of bills tho') and zero chance of actually finishing the list of crap that stops me working on my arcade because other things are added to my 'to do' list daily that are more important than the arcade because they are for the benefit of everyone in my family as opposed to the arcade which is 100% selfish.

I think my lack of tolerance today is because I am really tired. I spend stupid amounts of my life commuting anyway, but yesterday was terrible. I spent 9 hrs traveling including 2 hours on trains, an hour on the underground and 6 hours in my car. When I finally got home last night at 10pm after a 15 hour day I couldn't shut my brain off so spent half the night staring at the ceiling.

I am sorely tempted to walk out of work, find a cinema with some arcade machines and dump a shed load of cash into them.

Does anyone else ever feel frustrated by commitments that stop them working on their arcade or is it just me?

drventure:
It's not just you. Just landed a gig for a firm in Dallas. Wretched commute (though nothing like yours, sounds like!), and it's working for a company that doesn't actually +produce+ software. <sigh>

I've always found that for a software developer, companies that actually +sell+ the software are far more interesting to work for than companies that just +use+ software to make/sell something else.

But that's likely just my own biases talking.

We'll see how it pans out. I start next week.

All I can offer is, if it really is that bad, don't walk out, but stoke up the fires to find something else closer in/better, then just keep reminding yourself that the current gig is temp. It's usually easier to find something else when you're already working at one place.

Then, putting in a 2 week notice will feel all the better!

t3design:
Short answer: Not just yes, but hell yes!

Long answer: Everyone goes through periods when what they have to do is not fun and keeps them from doing what they want to do. I clearly remember being irritated that I had to attend some of the boring general classes needed to get an engineering degree and thinking about how much time I was not getting to do what I wanted to....now, some 25 years later with a wife, 6 kids (ages 15 to 5), a home, a business to manage and about a billion other commitments, I wonder what I did with all that free time I had in college!

+1 what drventure said.

If you are dissatisfied with your present situation then make a plan to change it. Endurance is easier to muster when you have a goal and are sure that what you are enduring is moving you toward that goal. We lose our will to fight when we can no longer see the cause we are fighting for. So spend a couple days (or weeks) thinking about where you want to be in a year, in five years. What will it take to get there? Plan it. Then even a horrible commute and a job you are disillusioned with can be something that is a step in your plan and therefore something you can actually put your heart into for the time you must.

Having said all that, there is a therapeutic effect to taking a day off and drinking too much and playing too many games (did I just say "too many" and "games"? That can't be right) just don't do it too often and don't put your long term plan in jeopardy when you do.

javeryh:
Definitely!!  Last night I was working until 2am because we priced a registered direct offering this morning and I was up at 6am to proofread the 8-K that came back from the financial printer before filing with the SEC.  Then I had to jump on a 7:30am conference call.  I'm too tired 95% of the time to work on my arcade projects and what little free time I actually do get on thew weekends I have to do the typical chores around the house.  Not enough time in the day.

Malenko:
I never have time, but Id rather have a car to drive and food to eat instead of playing games. I do try to put like20 min a day off to the side to just relax, that tends to help a lot. I usually get stuff done when I cant sleep or wake up too soon

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