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My first payment was issued in 24 Nov-2010 and I received my check from Google to the address given in account information.I was very happy to receive the check.

My second payment was issued in 26 Apr-2011. I waited for 3 months but my check did not arrive. So in 29 Jul-2011 I requested for stopping the check that was issued and so my earnings were credited back. I was not sure why i did not receive the check.

Again a new payment was issued in 23 Aug-2011, but I have not received the check yet. It seems there is some issue. I don't know whom to contact. Posted this question in adsense help forums, but no answers from them either. Any advices..... ?

Passion for web technologies but stuck working for some crappy corporate giants for huge pay-checks. How do you manage both ? Passion and crappy day-job...

Year and half back I used to write applications in Ruby on Rails for a startup which paid me less. Various reasons forced to me to look for a high paid job and I finally landed up in Corporate IT wolrd where now I spend my time maintaing ancient COBOL code. The job sucks. I thoght in the spare time I would do a bit of hacking and develop hobby projects, but nothing seems to be going fine. The day job is keeping me occupied and now I am loosing interest to do anything in my spare time.

Anyone in similar situation ? Need some expert advice to motivate myself and start writing applications and building hobby projects in my favorite programming language.