Eye Opening Vacation
Rory posted yesterday about his vacation revelation.
It was interesting reading for me as I had the same experience last summer while taking two weeks off to visit Charleston, SC. I checked my email twice while I was away - just to make sure there were no emergencies, but it was a little bit of work to do so as I didn't have a laptop with me and I had to wait for the hotel's facilities to be unused.
It really was an eye-opening experience for me. Combined with the couple of times that I played golf last year, I realized that I do really like some other things more than sitting in front of this keyboard day-in and day-out pumping out code. (Not that I don't love coding - I really do - if I wasn't getting paid for it I'd do it for free!). For the first time in my life I thought about how nice retirement might be. At 35 I'm probably still a little too young for that, but ...
A nice vacation is great for really bringing the big picture into perspective.