SD> I think that's the same for many of us still in Fidonet and in BBSing in 
SD> general.  At one time in 2008 after my car accident, I was seriously think
SD> about just getting out of BBSing altogether.  I'd discussed this with my w
SD> (who has never known me NOT to be running a board of some type) and she sa
SD> "You'd not know what to do with yourself if you weren't running
a BBS."  I
SD> thought about it for a while and sadly, I came to agree with her. :)

Back in '93, I lost a job because I was BBSing too much.  The sucky thing is
that the job I had was as an official BBS sysop.  Yes, I actually got paid
to be a sysop!  And I lost the job because I was doing too many sysopy
things.  I was the maintainer of the CardBoard BBS for 3Com, running TBBS. 
My job was to keep the network card drivers up to date on the BBS so that
customers could download the latest and greatest.  I also maintained an
online database of FAQ's and HOW-TO's.  I had to add all the latest RFC's,
etc.  The thing was that I was working too much on writing door games and
stuff for my own TBBS BBS at the time, that I was letting other work
activities fall by the wayside.

When I left bbsing a few years ago, I did it because I found a new thing to
do to occupy my time.  I took up candy and toy vending, but now that I'm in
a groove with that, I find myself having more time and thinking about BBSing
again.

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