You're technically right, but I guess I'm just getting tired of having to organize my entire life around being prepared for work Monday - Friday. I mean, am I a

You're technically right, but I guess I'm just getting tired of having to organize my entire life around being prepared for work Monday - Friday. I mean, am I a machine whose only concern is achieving optimal operating conditions, or am I a human being with a life outside of work? I've resisted specializing for some time because I personally don't like working with technical people (excluding present company and our friends on HN of course!). I actually much prefer working with non-technical people, because I've found that they usually have a lot more common sense and are a lot less egotistical about their work. Maybe I just haven't been exposed to the "right crowd" but my experiences collaborating with other programmers have been very unpleasant across my career. So I always try to position myself where I can take a top level view of the product and not be pressured to move in a certain technical direction. Maybe it's time to give that strategy up, though, because it hasn't worked out very well for me.