I Love it and Hate it.
There’s nothing I love more than a Saturday afternoon of coding. The satisfaction of developing a site from beginning to end and seeing the excitement on the client’s face is truly second to none. The challenge of getting to know your client, understanding their objectives, planning and designing the UI, creating a static mock-up, UX and usability testing, final production, SEO research, approvals, and then finally launching a usable, standards compliant, useful, engaging website site–PHEW…better than… well…it’s just awesome. I love a good challenge. I’d go as far as to say that I can’t function correctly without a degree of challenge in everything I do. I genuinely love web development.
But in the same breath, there’s nothing I hate more than the fact that there’s nothing that I love more than a Saturday afternoon of coding. Really, I hate how much I love programming. Sometimes there are awesome activities going on in the city….New York City that is, but instead of going out for drinks with the rest of humanity in the city that never sleeps, I find myself headed home on a Friday night on a subway car, rocking back and forth listening to the Boag’s World podcast on my iPod while reading an SEO Conference transcript. I get excited about some new technology that I get to try to adopt into a project that I just happen to be in the middle of and can’t pull myself from it until the project is over…usually at which point I start yearning for a new and more complicated project to work on.
Is there redemption for me?
