Burnt out.

I'm not burnt out, just bored. Same shit different day syndrome. Work is taxing but bearable. Home life is good just very routine.
We have a little vacation planned in a couple weeks to take the kids to Great Wolf Lodge in NC and then we are renting a cabin in the mountains in December. So I have something to look forward to but in the meantime, SSDD.
 
I am actually very lucky, about a year and a half ago I was able to make a move which has provided me and interesting challenges and rewards…actually reinvigorated at this time
 
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GomezAddams said:
Greetings from one old FORTRAN hacker to another. You were still using punch cards in 1986? I thought they were all replaced with other alternatives by then.
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We were using a Digital PDP-9 with a paper tape control loop in 1986 to run acoustic random vibration testing on spacecraft. Old habits die hard.
 
mongooz said:
yea, my first experience on "computers" was back in the usaf in about 1977.....big old Burroughs punch card reader/writer. i do recall that your syntax on the worksheets had to be perfect or your "programming" went off into space, somewhere.
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Complains about being identified as an old geezer

Proves is old geezer
 
I hear ya @Mark Wein ..... When most people were at home because of Covid, my workload jumped exponentially and I started working tons of overtime. Between supporting the servers and VPNs for all of these people to work remotely, meet remotely.... our company (that among other things builds delivery vehicles for Amazon, UPS, FedEx and others :embarrassed: ) sold off one company that happened to integral to the domain, forcing us to spin up a new domain and move hundreds of servers (we're an IT group of maybe 15 people) :shitbricks:

Add to this I haven't had hardly any gigs which are normally my ESCAPE from the brain crushing day to day workload.... When I went to schedule some days off (for my Covid vaccination) I realized that I hadn't taken any vacation in 15 months. :hit:

I have since scheduled a week off to send my wife out of town... but then I stayed behind and worked on home improvement projects :facepalm: ... and finally... FINALLY... I've scheduled FOUR WHOLE DAYS OFF where I'm actually going out of town to drink beer and relax. :bounce:


It's no wonder that I've been unable to finish the 5 or 6 guitar builds that I have going..... there are days when I get home from work at 7:30, eat something... then I sit in the driveway with a beer and a disc sander and just VRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............:annoyed: Sand the paint off of a guitar body, then I'll repaint it... experiment with some paint finishes that work or don't in places... then I'll sand it off and try again. Something mind numbing, yet relaxing. :helper:
 
Work has been 24 hours a day seven days a week lately. I had a guy leave and another just retired. I hired a guy last week and he was set to start next Tuesday. He called today to say his wife didn't want to relocate so he wouldn't be taking the job. I'd already secured him a car, a phone and a laptop.

I'm done.
 
PunkKitty said:
I was in a freshman data processing class in college learning FORTRAN when the space shuttle blew up. Yes, we called it data processing back then. And we used punch cards for our programs.
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Oh, my gosh! I remember those students carrying those cards around. I took one look at them & decided to take 4, make it 5 classes of French.
 
CST said:
Oh, my gosh! I remember those students carrying those cards around. I took one look at them & decided to take 4, make it 5 classes of French.
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Fun fact about punch cards: The FORTRAN compiler only reads columns 1 through 72 of the 80 columns on a punch card. The reason? So you can set your keypunch machine to automatically punch sequence numbers in columns 73 through 80.

That way, if you drop your card deck you can put them in a card sorter, set it to sort on column 73, and get your deck back in order.
 
GomezAddams said:
Fun fact about punch cards: The FORTRAN compiler only reads columns 1 through 72 of the 80 columns on a punch card. The reason? So you can set your keypunch machine to automatically punch sequence numbers in columns 73 through 80.

That way, if you drop your card deck you can put them in a card sorter, set it to sort on column 73, and get your deck back in order.
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Yup. I remember that. Now that I consider myself retired, I never want to look at another line of code in my life.
 
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