You've definately got to spread your wings and move on. Be cordial with your old boss, offer to help them out/transition as you leave. The fact that they subbed

You've definately got to spread your wings and move on. Be cordial with your old boss, offer to help them out/transition as you leave. The fact that they subbed you out means that they aren't ignorant of your market value - they've just decided to exploit you. On the bright side, the designer you leave behind might get a raise when you leave. :-) In the meantime, start thinking like a contractor. I keep a log to help my remember what I was doing on such and such a day [I swear I must be senile sometimes] and I keep track of every minute worked. I wrote a program to total up the hours. I do this if I'm working for a client or an employer. When someone phones me at work I say "Hold on, let me get off the clock." and write down the time. Then I talk to them as long as a I want. When I'm done, I "punch back in" and resume working. I do the same whenever I feel like taking a break. This system removes any guilt I would feel about taking a long lunch, talking to a friend on the phone, coming in late, etc. It also makes it easy to answer the question: "What did you do last week?" Here's a sample log entry: 2/9/2010 Tuesday 11:05 AM - 12:47 PM 2:49 PM - 3:21 PM 5:13 PM - 6:51 PM Working on depth sorting. Transparency is sort of working for one gamut - the last one drawn. Need to sort polygons for faces for all gamuts at once, not each gamut individually. Doh! Tomorrow: See if order of drawing Gamuts is enough to fix transparency problem (draw closest gamut last).