Don't you wish the clock could stop running?
I swear I am not living under a rock. But I might as well be. Everyday as I browse the few tech websites, incomprehensible new terms, new techniques, new imageries, new trends, new "it" hit me, swirl me with the impact of a blizzard, even though I sink my teeth trying to move along and hang on, I would not last for more than 10 minutes. I retreat, feeling quite lost and defeated.
Don't you wish the clock could stop running? Don't you wish this generation stays this generation and let your kids be the next generation and cutting-edge, shiny as a newly minted coin?
New things, bewildering terms are hurling around in the techie world fast and furious. .NET 1.0, 1.1., 2.0, 3.0, SQL 7.0, 2005, 2008, XML, XQUERY, XPATH, XAML, XHML, LINQ, XLINQ, REST, AJAX, JASON, Silverlight ...
Don't you wish you could withdraw and write out your distrust, frustration and confusion elegantly in a immortal book called "Walden" like Thoreau in the turn of 20th century? (Of course, "Walden" is more, much more than that).
Or would you rather excuse yourself to a theoretical high-ground, laughing at the busily passing trends and futile struggles of these worker bees? Like my professor, finally had enough of chasing the "next-generation", the newest thing, he gave up thinking about new tools in coding at all and now works on applying computer technologies in children development.
Or maybe you could switch to nursing or accounting? Like my this friend, or that ...