de tomKronieken

Auch, Nicola Ken seems to be a bit blue. From what I can tell, he's experiencing some or several of the following, to which I'm not totally immune either:

• Winter. It's cold and wet in Europe during winter. Everybody longs to live in California these days.
• The world. It's not such a nice place as you thought it was when you were a kid.
• Lack of recognition. You're putting a lot of voluntary work in some projects, and you don't get any feedback. Even not "hey Nicola, thanks, I'm using your stuff!".
• Everybody out there wants to live on your effort. Everybody wants what you're making, but nobody wants to contribute to it. Combined with the previous one, this is a killer.
• Too high expectations. I read this once in a comic on the web (forgot its URL though :( ): "I was expecting we were going to make one great breakthrough after the other one. I didn't expect to just go to work and make money." I guess a lot of techies/geeks/whatever you call yourself/... are experiencing this.

I just hope this link increments Nicola's referer count, so that he knows he's not alone out there :-)