Insofar as one is the same human being, with the same energy reservoirs and time management skills as before your child was born, this is unlikely.Your whole post drips with resentment-fueled bigotry and ignorance, making me wonder if you're fighting for attention at your workplace or whatever, feeling unloved. Here's an internet hug. Hugz.
Many years back I -- a new graduate employee -- was chatting with my boss, who was a part owner of the company/president. He had five kids, or maybe even six. He asked me when I was thinking of having children (it was still too early for me, but just as a conversational thing), and my honest answer was that I didn't know how he could afford it.
He then told me about an Arabic parable or the like that each child comes with a bag of money.
That seemed counter intuitive to me, but my life has proven it out. I now have four children, and I would wager good money that I know more current technologies, in much more depth, than you do.
If you have the capacity, having children has a profound ability to make you focus: While I am the same intellectual being, like the vast majority of developers I was absolutely pissing time away before children, and I doubt I passed even 5% productivity. Slashdot was the Reddit of the time, and doing asinine, meaningless implementations for days on ends was just a normal day. And I know this is the case for most developers.
Now I don't have time for the bullshit. I focus specifically on the things that yield success, in the most efficient manner possible. I'm still only maybe 15% productive (still piss away a lot of time), but the result is my own company, a lot of success, etc.
Your whole post drips with resentment-fueled bigotry and ignorance, making me wonder if you're fighting for attention at your workplace or whatever, feeling unloved. Here's an internet hug. Hugz.
Many years back I -- a new graduate employee -- was chatting with my boss, who was a part owner of the company/president. He had five kids, or maybe even six. He asked me when I was thinking of having children (it was still too early for me, but just as a conversational thing), and my honest answer was that I didn't know how he could afford it.
He then told me about an Arabic parable or the like that each child comes with a bag of money.
That seemed counter intuitive to me, but my life has proven it out. I now have four children, and I would wager good money that I know more current technologies, in much more depth, than you do.
If you have the capacity, having children has a profound ability to make you focus: While I am the same intellectual being, like the vast majority of developers I was absolutely pissing time away before children, and I doubt I passed even 5% productivity. Slashdot was the Reddit of the time, and doing asinine, meaningless implementations for days on ends was just a normal day. And I know this is the case for most developers.
Now I don't have time for the bullshit. I focus specifically on the things that yield success, in the most efficient manner possible. I'm still only maybe 15% productive (still piss away a lot of time), but the result is my own company, a lot of success, etc.