On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 08:24:00PM +0800, Teng Zhang wrote: > I can't adjust the time for OpenBSD and my life appropriately. Could you > please share your experience with me about how you adjust your time between > OpenBSD and your life. > thanks for any reply. >
For my business, I wrote an article for customers on my website that dealt with the issue of what projects they should do themselves and what projects they should hire a contractor for. These are the issues: 1. Are you competent to do the project? 2. Time. How long is this project going to take? You will need to devote your free time from work to work on this project, this includes weekends and possibly vacation time. These time periods are meant for you to recover from work, spend time with your family and do fun things. This time will be lost. Will it effect your work and schooling and happiness in a negative way? 3. The mess. Any project produces some sort of "mess". Whether it means sawdust and trash or needing to buy books and read web pages for hours, etc. I even advised customers on longer projects, that if they could afford it, to temporarily go live someplace else and not suffer the "mess". I then advised, that if you can't handle all three above, hire a contractor. My advice to you. Adjust your life appropriately. You only get one life. Don't screw it up. Be happy. Be productive. After that, devote the time leftover to OpenBSD. OpenBSD is constantly changing, but it isn't going to change so much that the standard set of Unixish commands is going to change. My father uses KDE and just doesn't want to or need to learn more than turning the computer on and off. There are instructions for installing and upgrading already out there. If your question about using OpenBSD is work related, then it's got nothing to do with non-worktime, so work that out on the job. Sometimes it's better to not to be able to try and do a workload that is impossible for one person to do. They may need to hire more people, which basically is the same thing as "hiring a contractor". Anyway, have a decent life first, OpenBSD second. Hopefully both. Chris Bennett
