Webmaster addiction?

[wnc]

With time seemingly vanishing every day, I started to record what exactly I do in work mode with each various project and when. Consider it a time management study.

Recently over the past few days there have been thunderstorms in my general area of my dought-stricken region of the USA. Usually you hear a thunderstorm coming via thunder.

As I was working, there was a bright flash and a loud SNAP sound, followed quickly by thunder. Needless to say, I quickly unplugged the computer.

Lights then flickered and eventually went dark, with no additional thunder heard. Then here was enough hail to make the ground turn white. The strange sudden and generally quiet storm lasted about 8-10 minutes.

With no power, I began to read a Gay novel by sunlight. Then got restless and decided I needed to work and write a porn review - but my notes were in the powerless computer. I began to understand my dependence on electric.

I was hungry so decided to drive to a favorite asian restaurant. Alas, they were also out of power, and there were small drifts of hail there. I returned home and got candles ready for a long dark evening.

Power was restored before full dark, 2.5 hours later. What did I do? Not cook dinner, being hungry, but turn on the computer.

How much of working as a webmaster is a job as compared to addiction?

How many times do you read your email or stats every day? Can you travel without being connected? When was the last time you took a full week vacation without also having to work?

[desslock]

After a number of years without any power outages, we have had several this year alone. In fact, several weeks ago, the night before FriskyPickles got on a plane to San Diego to go work for Helix Studios, the power went out at our apartment at 3:45am.

When my bf, Javi_Licious, and I took him to the airport, he left a still powerless apartment.

Steve

[Squirt]

How much of working as a webmaster is a job as compared to addiction?

This is something I've found could be an issue. The more I'm online the more I find I NEED to be online for some small reason or another. A quick look for something becomes a day long venture into every aspect of it.

Workaholic ~ webaholic for adult webmasters?

How many times do you read your email or stats every day? Can you travel without being connected? When was the last time you took a full week vacation without also having to work?

I can travel without being connected. The last time was two years ago for a couple weeks. I only logged on once or twice to make sure everything was ok.

[Fister]

Fortunately, after too many hours, I get tired of being on the computer.

[basschick]

my computer died on friday night. what did i do? i read a book and decided to deal with it later. but when we had a power outage the other day during my work ours, i pulled out my PDA and wrote blogs, which is what i had scheduled to do.

i do want to be online every day, but it's usually to do actual work