This is to continue on from my working from home statement in my last blog entry. First of all I love working from home, and I really enjoy what I am doing, but it comes at a price. The price you pay stems from the fact that you actually live at work. If you’re someone like me this means that if you have a choice between solving a problem, and well knocking off for the night, you often choose the former.
This gets in the way of your relationship with your wife, your kids, your friends.. etc. In fact many times the problems that you’re solving go so late into the night that you end up sacrificing sleep, for the sake of the solution.
For instance, right now, I am trying to deploy a rather tricky application to a Websphere Server for the sake of future illustrations of functionality. No one is asking me to do this and I don’t have any deadlines. This task all stems from a query I had running around in my head on whether I could deploy this particular application, with this particular configuration successfully. Rather than waiting for some other day and time to do it, I sat down at my desk and began trying to solve my quandry.
In doing so I have discovered a few software bugs, that I developed work arounds for rather than submit a request to get them fixed. Over the years I have learned that it is easier to submit a problem, with a suggestion of how to fix it, then it is to submit a problem and wait for a solution.
