Motorcycle, bass guitar, kitten.

I did it for a few years, and blew through all my savings in the process.

Had to start an actual business, LLC, and deal with all the parts that as an engineer I absolutely hate.

Had done about 15 years in the industry with a small tech company, had all the skills, leads, etc, and wanted to do it on my own.

Way underestimated how much time and effort the running of a business part takes, and while I had projects, I didn’t have the time to do them right, payment was always late so my profit shrank, and I burned out in two years.

Hired an admin to help with managing the projects and clients, but it was too little too late.

I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m saying be sure to have all those other elements well in place, cause the actual time spent programming was pretty small.

In the end I took a role as the on site guy for a very large company, making decent money, and I’m back doing the parts I enjoy.

Best of luck to you.

I take great pride in my work. The results are appreciated by the whole company. I’m lucky that now I’m on a small team of good people, but that isn’t always the case.

I tend to ignore the dead weight when it’s there, because I know I’ll get my part done, and if I have to work extra to pick up the slack, I’m not shy to draw attention to it.

My whole chain of command knows what I do, and not being in management, dealing with lazy ineffective people isn’t my problem.

Focus on you, talk to management about the issues you face, but don’t point out others failures, just let it be implied.

This is a big part of it. I’m 50, and still skateboard a couple times a week. Sure, they aren’t close friends, but the people I hang out with at the parks give me all the personal interaction I need.

Granted, I am a bit of a hermit by nature.

Always felt the cosmic inflation theory was a place holder until we better understand the early universe.

I’ve found the best way to achieve both the mental break, and the relaxation, are hobbies that that are physically and mentally taxing.

In the summer, its skateboarding and motorcycles, in the winter its snowboarding.

Wears you out enough to get proper sleep, and they require all your mental focus not to get hurt.

One of the key elements my girlfriend tells me is that I’m the only one to call her on her bullshit.

Guess to each their own.

For snowboarding and skateboarding I’ve always used the Clip by Sansa, works in any weather, pretty damned tough, and if I lose or break it, at $32 I just dont care.

I watch plenty of game stuff online, but there is no way I’m spoiling a game I’ve waited 20 years to play.

I’ll never get the chance to play an OG Zelda for the first time again.

I have the N64 version, as well as the switch.

Think I’ll probably play it on switch just to have wireless controller.

Majoras Mask. I’ve bought it, but am too wrapped up in factorio, another one I waited far to long to play.

The thing that immediately ruined it for me was the leveled enemies and weapons.

Ok, so I can head shot a guy in this region and he dies, but same enemy one zone over takes like 10 shots.

It’s a lazy way of forcing artificial difficulty and making you follow a certian path through the game.

Did the same shit to the assassins creed series as well.

Nothing wrong with having one sexual partner, and a small but relyable support group consisting of friends and family.

My girlfriend is an amazing woman, but I certianly don’t rely on her for everything. We live together, and she hears about most of my stuff, but there are hobbies and technical things I save for the people who are into those things.

The two that come to mind are Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Farcry 6.

They might have been ok games if the previous ones hadn’t been so damned good.

At least with Breakpoint they tried to make it right with a new mode, but still don’t enjoy it as much as Wildlands.

Leveled enemies and weapons are just not something I’m going to play.

“It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”.

Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.

1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.

2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.

3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.

Circumcising a child.

This is the way

The resource I was talking about was you, not the JSON. Pulling your time away to fix it. That has to be coordinate a level above unless both teams have the same management.

If not you may your work impacted by it, as they say, cover your ass.

Can you put an ingest test on your systems?

Throw a flag when the JSON breaks etc and track those metrics.

If they are breaking production services, they sure wouldn’t last long on any of the teams I work with.

This 100% is a management issue, both their boss, and yours.

If resources are going from one team to another, and they have separate management, that damn well better be coordinated through your boss. At the very least C.C. at the start and end of the project.

I’m all for helping out another team, that’s what you do, but sounds more like constantly cleaning up their messes.