“Being your own boss” is often touted as a direct route to personal freedom, a liberation of time management and the ability to just take back your life NOW! This is of course rarely true. The reality is extended hours and a constant pressure to succeed. While removing everyone more senior than you from your work life has the wonderful effect of also removing any negativity and frustration (if things aren’t working it’s no one’s fault but yours, if you can think of a better way to do things you can just do it), it also leaves you constantly dealing with a raw reality that a more structured hierarchy would help protect you from.

These days we are usually quite well time managed at Spoiled Milk, but due to several very large projects reaching a simultaneous climax at the end of this month, some of us are currently being forced to work very extended days. Curiously, despite the pressure and stress, the quip of “I’m working 14 hours a day for myself so I don’t have to work 7 for someone else” does hold some ground, although it’s quite often hard to pinpoint exactly why.

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Ruby on Rails is a programming language and Web application framework that I’ve only dabbled with in the past, but my intensive work pattern recently has doubled up as in intensive training course. I’m tempted to start a series of coding related posts to share the solutions to some of the trickier hurdles I’ve come across.

Would anyone mind? Is this a good idea? I’ll tag them with something appropriate so they can be filtered out, and I’ll try to keep up the amusing stories of Danish police-patrolled cycles lanes.