that feeling of accomplishment sure is shortliven

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you know how you get some goal, and you work really hard to get to it... and you dedicate yourself...

then you finally get it, and you have about 3 minutes of celebration... then your like... ok now what... I have no goal...

well.. I have just worked for the last 4 days learning Php and creating a wordpress account creator/poster...

I knew no php before this.

20 minutes ago I got it finished... and it worked... I was happy.. now i need something else to do... perhaps I will employ my creation.
 


See, that's the great thing about money. There's always more to make. So you always have a goal: make more.

.... /miser
 
Well, ofcourse, I have some long term life goals... Nice quote you found there Axxo.
 
Rascagua said:
you know how you get some goal, and you work really hard to get to it... and you dedicate yourself...

then you finally get it, and you have about 3 minutes of celebration... then your like... ok now what... I have no goal...
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Yup, been there, and it doesn't get any better.
 
In my experience that feeling kind of returns when it sinks in that you are done..
because you start seeing how to continue and improve what you created - so thats some new goals.

i am a kinda new software developer (~two years) and i think those feelings of making goals into accomplishments is what keeps me coding.
 
Once I finish something I spent a decent amount of time working on I take a break and relax while thinking of new ways to improve it beyond my original goals. If I don't really care to improve it, I think of the best possible way to put the script to work (usually I already have that figured out before I even start coding it).
 
I get that feeling when I just finished a really fantastic book. It's bitter sweet.
 
Sounds like you need to re-analyze your goal setting.

Something to consider you wanted to learn php/mysql to do something in particular. Well keep growing the goal until you have a large defined destination where learning php/mysql is just a step in the path to the final goal.

See often people set small goals to make themselves feel good about themselves and like they accomplish something. However if these are end goals you wind up where you are quite often. Consider setting a very large goal. For example I want to own a company of 50 employees that build sites and offer SEM services that makes a gross profit of 20 million a year. Now that's a huge goal especially if you know nothing. However you now that you have the huge goal set you can start disecting it down and building small milestone goals along the way. All the mean while chipping away a the main master goal.

When you disect the master goal break it down to sub goals, then sub sub goals. So for example if you feel the first thing you need to do is learn mysql/php, always justify with the reasons that's the smartest thing to do to reach your master outcome, you might make that your sub goal. Then it's smart to build a lot of smaller sub goals under that. Like I need to learn to deal with files, I need to learn how to handle objects, design patterns, architecture. But one thing to be very careful of it not to dig to deep into something unless that really is going to help you accomplish that master goal. You'll spend all your time on a sub goal and never make progress forward.
 
Well... currently my next goal is to develop about 3 or 4 scripts I have in mind.

And fix up my wordpress poster/creator script with some features.

After that, long term I have nothing set, other than keep learning stuff.
 
turbolapp said:
I get that feeling when I just finished a really fantastic book. It's bitter sweet.
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I know! Every time I open a new book the excitement is tempered with a certain sadness that I know the more I enjoy it, and the faster I read it, the sooner it'll be over. I also get super attached to book characters, and when the book or series is over I feel a little like a friend has died.
 
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