Yes that is far too true about that need to be the best worker and that feeling is exploited to such a degree by some employers as to cause people to feel inadequate no matter what they accomplish.
This can totally destroy someone's confidence in their own ability which makes them feel even more stressed and filled with nervous anxiety.
My own personal experience...I was looking for a new gig and I picked CompanyX over CompanyY for less money because I thought CompanyX would be more fun and I would work normal or close to normal hours.
Well that ended up being far from the case instead I was soon working double the amount of hours I thought I would be working and not being compensated for it since I was on salary.
When, in an attempt to draw the line as some people have pointed out, I voiced my disapproval of the situation and was told that they expect long hours and you are either in the boat or not.To make it worse they hired someone new of less skill than me for the position I thought I had.So I quit and decided to develop Ask Pete! and do contract web development work before I ended up completely burned out.
I don't know what planet you live on but I would like to live there. The planet I have lived on is absolutely nothing like that and every single web development job here is the same (ie. they overwork you and refuse to relent even if you attempt to draw the line before you are burned out)
I can't say much about GSP I just checked it out now for the first time. I'm open to all sorts of new ideas and tech but then I have the freedom to experiment so i'll play around with it and see what it's strengths are. As far as Server Pages go in general though I still can't see why everyone doesn't use PHP to develop them (The ONLY reason I can possibly see that people will use ASP is that they don't, can't and/or won't write their own code). It is THE best solution I have found to date and far better than ASP plus it's not that hard to configure to run on Windows NT Servers if you really have to run your web server on NT.
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Yes that is far too true about that need to be the best worker and that feeling is exploited to such a degree by some employers as to cause people to feel inadequate no matter what they accomplish.
This can totally destroy someone's confidence in their own ability which makes them feel even more stressed and filled with nervous anxiety.
My own personal experience...I was looking for a new gig and I picked CompanyX over CompanyY for less money because I thought CompanyX would be more fun and I would work normal or close to normal hours.
Well that ended up being far from the case instead I was soon working double the amount of hours I thought I would be working and not being compensated for it since I was on salary.
When, in an attempt to draw the line as some people have pointed out, I voiced my disapproval of the situation and was told that they expect long hours and you are either in the boat or not.To make it worse they hired someone new of less skill than me for the position I thought I had.So I quit and decided to develop Ask Pete! and do contract web development work before I ended up completely burned out.Yes that's true but at least back then you got exercise, and got to see the sky and the land.
But we don't live 200 years ago and there's no excuse for forcing people to do 80 hour work weeks.
That's like saying during ancient Greek times it was common that people were slaves.
I don't know what planet you live on but I would like to live there. The planet I have lived on is absolutely nothing like that and every single web development job here is the same (ie. they overwork you and refuse to relent even if you attempt to draw the line before you are burned out)
I can't say much about GSP I just checked it out now for the first time. I'm open to all sorts of new ideas and tech but then I have the freedom to experiment so i'll play around with it and see what it's strengths are. As far as Server Pages go in general though I still can't see why everyone doesn't use PHP to develop them (The ONLY reason I can possibly see that people will use ASP is that they don't, can't and/or won't write their own code). It is THE best solution I have found to date and far better than ASP plus it's not that hard to configure to run on Windows NT Servers if you really have to run your web server on NT.