Red moon

Night

I'm not exactly an early bird. If I'm seen out at 6 AM I'm probably on my way home. When I worked at Saab Ericsson Sapce, the security guards threw us out at midnight, but then, at Frontec I could work as late/early as I liked. Naturally working all night messed up my rythm, and it happened that I did some mistakes when it's late at night, but I liked to work completely undisturbed in the silent night. Now, I'm not a bachelor any longer, so I suddenly have to adapt to someone else. This makes my hours a bit more regular.

I think most of the programs I've written have been finished when it was dark out, or in the very early morning. OK, I might have had to fix some detail later, but the bulk was done when it was dark outdoors. I have a feeling that I loose at least a quarter of an hour every time someone phones or talks to me, even if it's just for half a minute. Programming is really a rather complex mental activity, and it takes a few hours to really get into it, but just a moment of distraction to get off the track.

It's a bit strange, but for some reason many people seem to think that it is something negative to work late. They have all these ideas about early birds being productive and late people being lazy. Why would it be more productive to work from 6 AM to 3 PM than to work from 11 AM to 8 PM? Somehow I get a feeling that many people are unable to realize that someone else might work after they have left... They probably think that programs write themselves in the evenings...

Personally I think it's illoyal to your employer to arrive to work before you are awake!

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