I’m so happy when I can spend time with my family. Being embroiled in a project, as I am now, makes me realize how much I miss them. I have two healthy, happy, well-adjusted kids and a wife who loves me! When this project is over, I’m definitely spending more time with them. Conversely, I don’t like the end of projects, but I do enjoy finishing them… perhaps because of a cessation of pain, and because I can see my family again.
Today, Yahoo news announced that one of the last chips my partner and I worked on is now product of the year! Too bad the chip belongs to that company that let us go. Both of us were instrumental in creating this chip (along with a third layout person). Hundreds of hours were put into it, and we were all working 12-16 hour days, six days a week the last month of the project… and then they let us go. They get all the credit and accolades; my friend and I get a new job. It’s bittersweet at best.