12 Feb 2003 amars   » (Journeyer)

Bah. don't know how I can properly convey what I'm trying to say without insulting PHP, but I hate it. What was once something I was enjoying and enthusiastic about is now so routine and menial to the point that I can't stand it. Honestly, to the outsider, I don't have much to complain about, i'm employed (and paid), there's no shortage of work, get to work from home or anywhere there's internet access, for the most part set my own schedule so I can attend school full-time, don't have a dress code to adhere to and have a relatively great deal of creative freedom, as programming goes and managed to have enough to take two 3+ week vacations out of the country. But... as i said it's gotten routine, and routinely annoying as clients have demands but don't know what they want nor do they provide any restrictions or guidelines to follow but complain and want changes after i've started or wrestling over problems with well known and respected open source PHP projects because they were written by monkeys and don't work or talking on the phone or communicating by email with someone who obviously has absolutely no idea what they are talking about and oblivious to their ignorance on the subject.

I've since grown to hate the web as a development platform, if that makes sense.

But I have bills to pay. Dammit.

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