I never thought it could happen to me. I had publicly said, many times, that it just could never happen to me because it was such an integral part of my life, but it did.
I burnt out on programming.
I was stretched just too thin. My personal life was falling apart from dealing with my wife’s two year losing battle with cancer. I worked for, what some people would call, one of the best companies in the world: CSG International. They allowed me to work first from home and then later from the hospital as I cared for my wife. They bent over backwards to help me through this most painful of times. But, in the end I realized that I just could not write code anymore. I was totally burnt out. So, I did the only honorable think I could do .. I resigned.
And, in my personal life, I was completely drained. After my wife passed, I just needed to escape. so I did.
To the Philippines. I have now remarried to a beautiful Filipina and I now have a … DAUGHTER!
When I moved, my sister said that I would be back at the keyboard pounding out code in no time. Knowing how much programming meant to me, she predicted it would only take two months.
Eighteen months later …
I am finally getting the itch to program again and I have started to learn how to write mobile apps using the Xamarin platform. I have already hit some snags that were not the easiest to unravel so I figured I would share my journey with the world.
Programming, I missed you! Welcome back!
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