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I partially agree with you: The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Since I'm working 40h/week a

I partially agree with you: The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Since I'm working 40h/week as a software engineer I find much less motivation to do PC related stuff (this includes gaming). That was different, I used to do random programming after school just because I could. During university this became less. However, I do enjoy most of my work, so there is that. And this is why I originally started studying physics - I wanted to keep programming as a hobby, but figured out I probably wouldn't really enjoy working in physics and then switched to CS. Regarding health: I think with this you're wrong. It depends on the "how much". Staring at a monitor 8h at work, driving home, stare at a TV/monitor another 6h munching fast food, go to bed, wake up, repeat; this is probably quite bad. But get home by bike or foot (if feasible), program/game/watch TV for an hour or two, go outside, do some sport, reduce unhealthy food, and you can probably get by quite fine.

nirui 7y ago
> The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Well, I still do code as hobby. The thing is writing code for company is not always fun, for example, your company use React and you want to try Vue, the only way to do it is create hobby projects of your own. And there are other benefits as well, for example, if your project is useful, it may open new opportunities for you, showcase your abilities, let you make friends and maybe even allow you to directly make money from it. > I find much less motivation to do PC related stuff Me too, sometimes. But personally I usually found the main reason for me to lost motivation is when I realized the project I'm working on is useless -- No body will use it even I released it, so I just stopped working on it. But you know what, some of my abandoned code can be reused when I have new ideas, so I count all of it as sleeping gold (Or maybe sleeping bug, depends on production results :)

nirui 7y ago

> The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Well, I still do code as hobby. The thing is writing code for company is not always fun, for example, your company use React and you want to try Vue, the only way to do it is create hobby projects of your own. And there are other benefits as well, for example, if your project is useful, it may open new opportunities for you, showcase your abilities, let you make friends and maybe even allow you to directly make money from it. > I find much less motivation to do PC related stuff Me too, sometimes. But personally I usually found the main reason for me to lost motivation is when I realized the project I'm working on is useless -- No body will use it even I released it, so I just stopped working on it. But you know what, some of my abandoned code can be reused when I have new ideas, so I count all of it as sleeping gold (Or maybe sleeping bug, depends on production results :)