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I think this is accentuated because for a lot of people, when you move across the country right after college to work at a big company like Google, it becomes y
by saalweachter 9y ago
I think this is accentuated because for a lot of people, when you move across the country right after college to work at a big company like Google, it becomes your life. Early on, you don't know anyone and you spend way too much time working because that's what you do when you're fresh out of college new hire in a new town. As time goes on, most of the friends you make are friends from work and even if you get a pretty healthy work-life balance, a lot of your free time is spent hanging out with your friends from work.
So when the time comes for you to leave the company, you aren't just leaving the company, you're leaving your entire life. It's the life change of leaving your job, getting divorced, and moving to a new town all rolled into one: it is one of the most significant events in your life, and you can't not think about it and try to understand it and explain it to other people.
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- mattgreenrocks 9y agoThe whole "work is life" thing is pretty weird, and I'm ambitious. Life has lots of interesting things that have nothing to do with JavaScript, why would you waste your youth on yet another JS framework? I somewhat regret the large amounts of time I put into my side projects when I was young (20s). They definitely produced results in my career, but I'm uncertain if they provided that much of a boost. From my vantage point, you can get along quite well by latching on to a bandwagon and networking, rather than working so hard.
- wolco 9y agoWhen did we stop doing side projects for yourself? If you are not doing side projects for fun of it then something is wrong. No one should feel they have to do a side project.
- mattgreenrocks 9y agoI still do side projects, and they were always for fun. But I regret the proportion of time spent.