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Yeah I pretty much roll in at lunchtime and punch out at 3.

• knorker 10y ago
  Then you are proving my point (other comment), and calling the grandparent comment either completely incompetent or a lazy bum who's upset that he can't keep up using 2h weeks when compete with 20-somethings who actually work 40h weeks. He "worries about the software industry", but my point is that he is worried for the wrong reason. The problem isn't that you can't do the job with a work life balance. It's that it's so full of incompetent people that someone competent can keep up with no effort at all. And they mask the incompetence. And eventually if you do that for 20 years, you too risk becoming incompetent. Or at least only have a tiny fraction of your potention competence.
  • honkhonkpants 10y ago
    I guess we agree then! I think it takes practice and discipline to really enjoy your life _outside_ of work. I take my kids to school, eat breakfast with my wife, handle my personal business in the morning. Then I go to work, WORK WHEN I AM AT WORK, and go pick up my kids from school and go home. Working when I am at work being the key point. If I walk around the floor at my office half the people will be reading Facebook or whatever, which I completely understand and I myself do read Facebook from time to time but I don't understand why you'd want to do that while sitting at your desk at work. Edited to add: and I never attend meetings.
    • ethbro 10y ago
      Someone once made this remark to me when I was in an undergrad architecture program (not the CS kind). He said "the biggest difference you'll see between grad students and undergrads is that undergrads will live in studio but waste most of their time; graduate students come in, work, get their work done, and leave."