Great post! I can easily identify with OP. I also learned hard work from my father and from my first job (McDonald's), where you simply could not go home unti

Great post! I can easily identify with OP. I also learned hard work from my father and from my first job (McDonald's), where you simply could not go home until all the work was done. I've had that same work ethic ever since. This post also reminds me of most successful business people I've even known. Their single biggest differentiator (that I noticed) was a refusal to stop trying to get something done, not just with each business, but with every thing they did every single day. The other thing I love about this post is that it's clearly by someone who has been through the wars. A poser would never even think to say things like: I’m exhausted physically so I should go to bed, but mentally I feel on fire so I let the code have me for another hour or two. a GitHub profile stuffed with code I regret I ran into something I did not understand and instead of giving up, I pushed through. I sat there in front of my computer for hours and wrestled with class and class instance variables. I have attacked each thing that I do not understand until I understand it. There are still so many people out there who are far better than I am, but that does not stop me anymore. And +1 for my favorite: I beat code that isn’t working into submission (though often times the code wins).