I also sleep incredibly odd/short hours and spend upwards of 15 hours at a time without leaving my desk. I own 17 acres of rural mountain land at home where my cabin is and a 2 story office building in town. I spend most of my time in the office, working and webbing and sleep on the couch when i hit the wall for couple hours between meetings, blogging and coding my personal projects. I don't code for clients, my two full stack teams do, with a third ramping up next week. Any coding I do now in my career is purely for the love of the game and the good of the community, and maybe some personal profits.
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People have no idea how hard software engineering is huh.
What is that phrase from that children's cartoon? "It's easy! When you know how..."
But it has it's ups and downs. For me it's easy. But I can't speak two languages, while for my linguist friend, she can speak and write five or six languages fluently. I speak code. She speaks people.
Einstein said, genius is relative. Try teaching a fish to climb a tree.
So for ME, making software is easy. And I do it really fast by all metrics. :D
Try releasing a triple-A MMO and get back to me ;)
Been there done that. So to speak. Though my releases have been more enterprise scale or in one case a massive social network mobile app I directed, with a ten million dollar a year budget.
Been doing this shit since the 80s. http://linkedin.com/in/corky
Not my first rodeo :)