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Came across this post while reading the Nimble Theory blog, although, the actual post comes from Paul Allien site.
It is something rather near and dear to me, as I work hard to advance my career, I continue to feel the strong pull to program, to invent things, to watch my creations come to life, to make my life easier and to be used by others.
So while I might need to start looking at the bigger picture, I will always be a programmer and a hacker at heart.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" ~Brian Kernighan
So as I mentioned previously, I’ve been away since May and now I’m back more or less. Many of my colleagues/friends have been wondering why I wasn’t blogging anymore. Initially my response was always that I didn’t have the time, or rather didn’t make the time for it. That is true, to a degree, but after more thought, realized it went much deeper. This post may veer into the personal life side of things, but also brings together some components of life in a startup.
My life mostly consists of my work, my kids and then any extra time after that is prioritized. I recognize a pattern now that once the nice weather hits and the school year ends, I’m outside hiking/geocaching/biking/camping, etc. in any of the spare time I have. When the school year for the kids resumes and the weather starts to turn a bit cooler, I’m inside more and suddenly finding some time to blog more again. So, I’m a bit of a seasonal blogger, at least until more of my time frees up in the warmer months.
There’s also no doubt that being a single Mom also significantly affects my time. A single Mom, in a startup at that, is probably veering on insanity;)
This leads to life in a startup. I often hear from well meaning friends that they worry I work too much. I do work a lot, and while I am often tired, I love my work. Passion for work is not just a cliche, it’s how I feel about what I do every day. Our company is growing rapidly. We have the best clients to work with. We’ve had members ask if they can come work for us because they love their experience with us. By the way, we’re hiring customer service reps and sales managers. We just recently launched our new blog as a way to provide walking tips to everyone and an additional means to communicate with our members. Every day is a new opportunity and I wouldn’t trade this ride for anything.
Recently Jason Calcanis of Mahalo.com was criticized in his post The Startup Depression. Critics said he was advocating firing anyone who wasn’t a workaholic, but what he was really saying was that it takes great excellent commitment and passion to build a highly successful company. I resonated with his post and his comments in the youtube videos below.
So what this all means is that I’ll likely post a bit more regularly now. We’ll see what happens next May;)
Fredericton is offering a service that allows transit riders to not only map out their routes, but to get walking route suggestions and projected durations of their trips at different times in the day.
To get the directions, simply go to Google Transit, and enter your destinations and automatically find the specific bus to get you where you want to go
It would come in handy for anyone who has tried to make sense of some of the transit routes where if you need to go to one side of the North Side to another area of the North Side by crossing to the SOUTH side of the river.
Also kinda cool is the Fredericton Transit Web cam, where you can even watch the bus as it moves thoughout the city
