> How do you actually not give up and power through?
Sorry it took so long to respond. I browse HN on my breaks, and it's catch-as-catch-can.
I keep my eyes on the prize at the end. For me, it's all about having a finished product after all the agita.
There's also a lot of (in my case) interest in the Mission of the project. One project that I did, took ten years to really start coming into its own. During that time, I was pretty much left on my own, and even outright abused (by the end users, and also "gatekeepers," who wanted to control the project).
It all came out great, in the end. The project was taken over by a new team, and very little of my original code remains in the current version.
I'm happy about that. Most of what I wanted to do, was push the idea of the project (an infrastructure-level resource locator).
Sorry it took so long to respond. I browse HN on my breaks, and it's catch-as-catch-can.
I keep my eyes on the prize at the end. For me, it's all about having a finished product after all the agita.
There's also a lot of (in my case) interest in the Mission of the project. One project that I did, took ten years to really start coming into its own. During that time, I was pretty much left on my own, and even outright abused (by the end users, and also "gatekeepers," who wanted to control the project).
It all came out great, in the end. The project was taken over by a new team, and very little of my original code remains in the current version.
I'm happy about that. Most of what I wanted to do, was push the idea of the project (an infrastructure-level resource locator).