Rush. Rush. Rush. The birth place of the modern information age is the location of the old Gold Rush. Winding roads placed hastily as communities boomed and busted! The rush for wealth mostly likely cost men their lives; and, others simply left a region where they had sufficient resources for surviving, possibly beyond more than they could expect or dream.
And, the modern computing rush. What does it cost? It cost a contract with services such as ConstantContact, or similar, when samples of valid instructions for doing such, exist on many developer and tutorial sites across the WWW.
Best of all, these cost are minimal. The only detractor is that any Integrated Development Environments connected with the Internet can be monitor, via histories of usage data transmitted,or the possible (unknown-unapproved) transfer of projects. This includes the commercial products which require a fee.
It simply takes the wisdom of searching for something outside one's standard domain of business vocabularies. Learning the few keywords for basic input, output, string processing, numerical computation, and the proper tools for installing, compiling, and evolving the simple utilities needed for performing the same "android-role", or automaton of business function, that might be "tandemish" in its "24/7" accumulation of data, marketing tasks, or other vital role, is, as simple as, taking that extra-hour or so, started at 5:00 AM for a couple of years, so your business or "profit-ability" will exceed that of the "average" one.
So, slowing some, or possibly enjoying an unplanned week or so, which concludes with a swift pivot in technical or work direction, might be more profitable than working at a break-neck pace, unless you are driven by a project manager who will not permit more than a three minute, lavatory-respite.
Unfortunately, some are that way! And, the saddest fact about modern software engineering teams, certain affiliations permit the rapid career advance of such.
Here is an adaptation a Christian Proverb, "Bob", says the wise time manager, "You are scheduled for your yearly fourteen days, and have fourteen from last year, that are unused, plus five unused personal day." And, spoken in the tone of a "true" businessman, "I'll tell you what, take the next four weeks, and work in a full-Friday every month for the rest of the year; I will make sure that personnel only records the unused time from last year."
This adaptation is a unique one, in that, excessive workdays, with over-flowing dustbins, full of one's lunch and rest period snacks, plus a small case of colas for "alertness" are costly. The increased person-hours of billable time are rapidly diminished by work-quality, employee-absenteeism, and attrition, plus the related cost in hiring, training, and retaining new staff members in a nightmare called an engineering team. This is for the corporation; For the machines ratcheting left and right, striking this key and that, communicating on network portal, phone, wired and wireless, do not the deserve a rest cycle, an oil replacement, and a complete wash and detail. Look, we are not Kenworths, Peterbilts, Freightliners, Contenentals, Trailways, or Greyhounds! We are not that or the "rear-wheel" drive V-8 Fords, first generations Hondas or Toyotas, or any other passenger vehicle with a reputation of reaching 325K+ worth of mileage as a standard-lifetime of a "well-maintained" vehicle in those categories. Plus, the last thing this world needs is more lerts!
This is not a reference about any "specific" personal experience; yet, if metal degrades, will not the tender structures of flesh.
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