When I played D&D (I know ladies, I’m even hotter now, huh?) I was confounded by a rule called multiclassing. Without going into much detail, in D&D when you create a character, you pick a class (a good analogy for what a class is, is an occupation). Most people pick one class (fighter, wizard, rogue, etc.) just as most people only do one job.

However some choose to “multiclass” meaning that they choose to be, for example, both a fighter and a wizard. The general rule for multiclassing, if I can remember correctly, is that you can’t actively increase your skills in both classes at the same time meaning that you can’t get better in both of your “occupations” at the same time – it’s one or the other. This rule always confounded me but I think I’m starting to get it; I’ll give you an example. I went to the gym today and unlike the brawny man of a years ago, I totally sucked. I might as well have had a t-shirt on that said “Lackey Weakling” on it. Within the span of 3 or 4 separate exercises I went from having an ok amount of energy to be completely out of gas and being famished. After I get home from the gym and get done eating and cleaning up after myself it’s about 10:30 PM and I’m really tired. I really want to code and stuff but I’m way to tired. If I were to have skipped the workout, I could have easily been coding.

So therein lies my dilemma. It seems that in order to be good in either working out or coding, that I have devote my energy into one. Is it really possible to balance the two?