[AccessD] For Money or Love

Hi Arthur:

Is this true Arthur?! You are one of my favourite person's to argue with.

It seems programmers have a short lifespan; two of my closest friends,
programmers, who worked with me, in my company, both died suddenly, in the
last few years. Too much stress, too many long hours and weak
hearts...nearly lost another good friend before Christmas but he has managed
to turn things around; regular exercise and working no more than twenty
hours a week. I have, just tonight, agreed to fill in for him, for the
remaining required hours, working for this company.

Even though, I have no conditions, I am aware of, I will be limiting the
number of hours I work...sort of like a semi-retirement. We, my wife and I,
have been planning to do a little more traveling, visiting friends,
relatives or maybe go back to university...when you are working up to 18
hours a day it has been hard to have a social life.

Well Arthur, I hope you get a chance to do all the things you want to do. If
you have a hankering to travel and feel up to it, come out to coast (lotus
land) for a visit; the weather's great here and your always welcome.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:11 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] For Money or Love


IMO this is not required. I just need to be guaranteed my rent and phone
bill and food and cat food and car insurance, etc. Beyond that, I don't
need to accumulate wealth. I just want my obligations covered, and if I
have any time left then it's free.

Not to say I am the measure of anyone but myself, but that's my frame of
reference. I'm writing a screenplay in my off-hours currently. It may
sell; I have sold two previously and thus have an agent who is
interested; but frankly I don't care whether it sells.

I have some serious medical issues and won't be around much more than a
year. Faced with that kind of news, one confronts "what do you want to
do before you bid adieu"? -- mitigated of course by what can you afford
to do, and so on. I reduced my list to 3 items -- go to Ireland for a
visit, revisit Paris for a couple of days to review the most beautiful
city in the world, and knock out the aforementioned screenplay. Anything
else that I manage is wonderful and gratuitous and gratis.

I do need to make a living for a year or so, but I can do that in about
20 hours a week. The screenplay will take another hour a day minimum.

I confess that I am running out of petrol, however; thus my relative
absence from this list. I can manage it once a week or so, and respond
too late to most messages to be useful and timely. But I feel that I
have made a lot of friends here, despite the fact that I have never met
almost all of you.

"Nothing concentrates the mind like the knowledge that you will hanged
in the morning."

Arthur