Please just fucking shoot me to end my misery.
This has been the roughest week of my engineering career.
If I'm sober in two hours...
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- Falco Girgis
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Re: If I'm sober in two hours...
Crunch time for some release date?
Dear god, they actually ported ES to a piece of celery!MarauderIIC wrote:You know those people that are like "CHECK IT OUT I just made Linux run on this piece of celery [or other random object]!!"? Yeah, that's Falco, but with ES.
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Re: If I'm sober in two hours...
There's light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes humanity has to be thrown away for a little while (then you let it back in afterwards). Just don't do it too often - I know a guy who works in paving and asphalt back home, and with the long cold winters you lose your humanity during the summer when work is your life. They'd wake up after 4-6 hours (sometimes at whatever site they were working at) and work until they ate and went to bed (anything you ate for lunch was on the go). Many people quit it because they can't handle it or because they break down. Seems like a flawed way for an industry to work, but apparently that's just how it is. I'd never willingly do it if I had another option (though I considered it for a short while because the pay is amazing).
I know I can do that for a short while though. I hate it and try to avoid it whenever possible since I feel horribly unproductive since it kills my creativity plus my will to work on my own stuff, but I can do it at times.
Best of luck (to both of us)!
I know I can do that for a short while though. I hate it and try to avoid it whenever possible since I feel horribly unproductive since it kills my creativity plus my will to work on my own stuff, but I can do it at times.
Best of luck (to both of us)!
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Re: If I'm sober in two hours...
I hear ya man... I can't count the number of times I've uttered the following:GyroVorbis wrote:Please just fucking shoot me to end my misery.
This has been the roughest week of my engineering career.
"If I didn't LOVE to program, I would HATE this fucking job!"
- Falco Girgis
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Re: If I'm sober in two hours...
I haven't had to work so hard in school since... ever. I've made it this far in college due to previous experience. But now the sheer work load is catching up to my lazy ass.
Yesterday I thought that I made a 46% on an important test in my senior design class. I was preparing to come home and drink my sorrows away... I later found out that I actually made a 92%, so I instead came home and drank to celebrate.
Yesterday I thought that I made a 46% on an important test in my senior design class. I was preparing to come home and drink my sorrows away... I later found out that I actually made a 92%, so I instead came home and drank to celebrate.
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Re: If I'm sober in two hours...
Good job sir! - it's always great when you do much better than you think you did.
Health, ammo.... and bacon and eggs.