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Teslov
8y

Hello.

Is there anyone else who starts massive amount of projects and never finishes one?

It's a big problem when you lose time you should spent on orders because you work on that-amazing-idea that you'll drop few hours later.
I'm lucky as my employer thinks that all these unfinished stuff are pushing my experience forward, but for me it's depressing to not be able to focus on my work.

What do you do to fight with the urge to code that one more project? What do you do focus on the current work?

I've tried making myself a system for better client-programmer communication to keep myself motivated with better organised feedback and deadlines but ended up dropping it and sticking to terribly messy mailbox.

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multiple projects

help me pls

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  • 2
    8y
    My amateur programmer life in a nutshell.
    ...
    I mean the text, not the dog resting on the booby-mousepad.

    What I do is I think of what this project can add to other projects to make them simpler. Work more now to work less afterwards. Then, hope to find enough motivation on the remaining projects.
  • 0
    8y
    I'm in the same situation, I like this rant.
  • 1
    8y
    So relatable.

    Takes small projects, finish them up. Takes on a huge project, stalls it for months. Adds more small projects. Adds work to it.

    Boom!
  • 1
    8y
    Starting with small projects will help.

    If your goal is to make the next Halo by yourself, part time and with no funding... yeah probably not going to work
  • 0
    8y
    I mark this small projects as "maybe usefull in near future" and hope i will use them by time
  • 3
    8y
    That mousepad definitely helps
  • 1
    8y
    I was having a conversation recently about this subject. Recruiters tend to look at GitHub profiles to discover how good of a programmer someone is but most people's profiles are really just graveyards of "great" ideas.
  • 0
    8y
    one honest rant! I am wearing same shoe right now. I have cut down to just 2 project now.
  • 3
    8y
    @davejlong exactly, but the trip from opening an editor to actually pushing something to GitHub is a good one too. Leaving stuff to rot on a local hard drive is what keeps making me feel mad about myself...
  • 1
    8y
    To avoid that, I only work on one project at a time. That way I have nothing else to do and I'm stuck with this one project. :D
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