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> It's not youth that enables one to pull all-nighters, but enthusiasm.
> When you're young, the idea of pulling enough OT to buy a
> motorcycle is enough to keep you going well into the night.
It's not the staying-up-all-night-working that's all that hard. I've
done it as recently as four years ago.
It's the next day, and the day after. Draggy, unfocussed, hung over
(without having partied), and pretty much guaranteed to catch whatever
germs are floating around - partly because your eyes are so raw you
constantly want to rub them, and partly because you can't maintain your
focus on keeping your germy mitts away from your face in the first
place.
The especially nasty part is when you discover that somebody else also
pulled an all-nighter to fix something or to get that special feature
into the build, and now (staying up all last night was therefore wasted
on _your_ part and ) everybody is looking at you to pull your weight and
stay late to recall what you sent out at 5:30 this morning, document
what's changed, rebuild your doc set, and... and...
At least if you are young and inexperienced, you have (as you say) that
motivation to get some extra money for the motorcycle coupled with a
lack of foresight that the insurance-rate hit from getting the bike will
wipe out the gains of many all-nighters...
Kevin
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