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Heh, I'll chime in as I did residency at a busy program and advanced my coding skills on the side. Even working 80hr+ weeks you find downtime. Some of that you
by rcdmd 8y ago
Heh, I'll chime in as I did residency at a busy program and advanced my coding skills on the side. Even working 80hr+ weeks you find downtime. Some of that you use for sleeping and studying. With whatever's left, some of my co-residents liked to read. Others had sort of social lives outside the hospital. For me, I coded with most of my freetime. It helped scratch an itch-- problems are solved with 100% certainty, errors can be found with testing preventing many mistakes before they actually affect people, you can build something with your creative juices and get a level of independence not possible in medicine... The list goes on. But my point is, residency is demanding, but you still have a little downtime here and there.
- glitchc 8y agoTo parent and others, with due respect, I assumed that the OP was a professional software developer, based on the phrasing about using software to pay bills. Coding on your own time is more so a hobby, but as soon as you try to make money from it, even consulting on the side, the hours pile up. There's opening your own business, contracting, soliciting clients, meetings, status updates... way more than just the programming aspect. So in these cases, we talking coding as a hobby, or coding as a profession alongside medicine?
- Kenji 8y ago> It helped scratch an itch-- problems are solved with 100% certainty You didn't get deep into software development if you say that. No offence ;)