Burnout?

So the last couple of days have been kinda hard. Ironically, I am coding better than I was probably just a couple weeks ago. But it is getting harder and harder to stop. By stop I mean stop coding.

In the month or so since I have completed The Iron Yard, I have coded almost 90 percent of the days. And when I code, it is an all day thing. I try to limit myself to 8 hours, but its hard. After a few hours away I keep thinking about my problem and I just want to go back and finish it.

The good part is that I have learned a whole lot. I think that some of the stuff from class has really sunk in. Especially because I have been working on cleaning up old projects and making them nicer so that they can be added to my portfolio. Even concepts, like MVC, that I felt pretty solid on have continued to make more and more sense to me. The bad part is that my brain is getting tired.

I have one part of my brain that wants to keep going, and another part that want to find a lawn chair, a margarita and a barbeque sandwich and just pass out for the afternoon. I think this is what they might call burnout.

I have experience with this, just not like this. Usually when I am burnt out, its cause I am tired of getting up to do something I don’t want to do and I finally just can’t take it anymore. Now…..its different. I want to do this. I wish that I could muster more strength to stay up later, read more stuff, do another tutorial. I really love it. I didn’t expect to feel something like burnout. But I can’t deny that my brain is so tired that I literally could just stare at the ceiling all day.

So maybe for the rest of the night, I will not allow myself to look at terminal and navigate to a project. Maybe tomorrow I will be ready to tackle everything again.

I sure hope so, cause I miss coding already.