i hear you man. i find myself in nearly the same predicament, though i just lost my job…happy days indeed. i'm with abcd_f—write it down and tell someone about

i hear you man. i find myself in nearly the same predicament, though i just lost my job…happy days indeed. i'm with abcd_f—write it down and tell someone about it. focus on doing one thing really well but still giving yourself time to decompress, to think. don't let other ideas distract you—save them for later. finish one thing. one thing that you love and can be proud of. and share it with others—especially the design aspects. find someone who has an eye for detail to help you—someone who believes in what you are doing—even if you are yourself a good designer. have them help you create a grand plan for your product, pare it down to a manageable size, and iterate from there. the thing i'm learning about software, job-hunting, child rearing is that it is never done. as a perfectionist myself, it's a hard pill to swallow—there is ALWAYS disappointment, but i don't think that anything meaningful ever gets made without disappointment. and people who don't get disappointed probably never change things (though the suicide rate is lower). life is hard. my three years since graduation have gone from bad to worse. don't feel bad about not finishing school—i thought that i would be able to get something useful that at least put food on the table and pay the mortgage, and i find myself scraping by doing the same stuff or worse than before i decided to go to school. educational inflation sucks, especially out here in the rust belt. so now i'm doing exactly the advice i'm giving you, except with about half resolve and double the complexity—advice is easier to give than to follow. i'm asking for help from the few who believe in me. here's an episode of a podcast that i've found cathartic— http://5by5.tv/b2w/7 http://5by5.tv/b2w/7 —it doesn't get anything done, but it has gotten me thinking and laughing at least. listen to it while doing dishes or yardwork. as for medication—i was diagnosed with depression and it ended up being vitamin d deficiency. also, yoga helps. here on HN is an entertaining presentation by mike lee (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Making-Apps-That-Dont-Suck http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Making-Apps-That-Dont-Suc...) in which he talks about selling everything to work for will shipley for one year without pay. so if none of my advice suits you—do something crazy that propels you in the direction you want to go.